"Too bad I have not a black arrow to deal with him. Oh, here goes nothing." Alexandra was forced to dodge another fireball by hiding behind one of the armours which were present by the dozens in Hogwarts. Regaining her breath, her eyes laid on the sword between the gauntlets of the armour. No, she had no black arrow to slay a dragon. But surely a big two-handed sword was going to be enough for a small lizard?
"HEY DRAGON!" She shouted at the creature which was on its way to hunt a shaking Neville Longbottom lying breathless against the corridor wall.
"WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!"
Alexandra had badly judged the strength she had put in her Levitation charm. The spell levitated the sword and the armour together, before propelling them in a surprised dragon which in spite of its swiftness didn't manage to escape all the mass of metal coming its way. Oooops. Seeing the look of fear on Longbottom's face, perhaps the expression on her face had been a bit too gleeful.
Small noises of pain interrupted her watching the Boy-Who-Lived still sweating in fear against the wall. The dragon had managed to avoid the sword she had sent its way, but not the armour. As these Middle Ages protections were traditionally large and heavy, the dragon had half of its body blocked under it, the tails and the wings if she was not mistaken. That said, it did not forbid him to use its fire-breath to send a fireball to the ceiling. Fortunately, seeing there was no fire outbreak in the corridor, she was forced to conclude there was some kind of magical protection or fire repellent on Hogwarts walls. That was not to say she intended to see how long the dragon was going to take to break the protections in question. Casting a Wingardium Leviosa spell again on the sword, this time without the armour, she levitated it over the dragon. The reptile ceased instantly his attempts at creating a barbecue, having received the message.
"What do you think you're doing?" Screamed Longbottom, who seemed to have recovered his voice at the worst moment possible.
"The dragon tried to kill me, Longbottom." Alexandra did not grit her teeth but it was hard not to. "It failed. I will ensure it will not try again. Permanently, before it becomes bigger than a house and tries to transform me in a roasted marshmallow. Again." Alexandra said in a slow explanation like she was speaking to an idiot. Seriously, did Neville Longbottom have not realised the threat this thing represented? If one fireball had touched one of them, the kind of burns she or Neville would have received could have been potentially deadly. The beast had the potential to become a dangerous cousin of Smaug if left one or two years to grow. And then there would be an uncontrollable wizard-killer in the nature. Better to avoid this scenario now.
"That will not be necessary Miss Potter." The black-haired Ravenclaw heard a voice behind her said. Alexandra turned her head and sighed. The eleven-year old had the impulse to say an insult or two, but it would surely speak poorly of her.
Headmaster Dumbledore was there, and he was not the only person present. Next to him were Leo Black and Seamus Finnigan, looking really stupid with their mouths wide open. Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were right behind them, although looking at McGonagall you could see she had struggled to keep the rhythm of the other member of her group. In front of so many witnesses, killing something in cold blood was not a good idea, no matter how much this beast had been keen on murdering her. Moving the sword still in levitation she let it fall ten feet away from the dragon which had remained silent in the last seconds. With a large CLANG the sword clashed in a metallic noise on the floor.
"What the name in Merlin were you doing here?" Asked Professor McGonagall, again in that cold tone of voice which came when you were caught doing something at the wrong place and the wrong time. "You could have been killed!"
"I realise that Professor" Alexandra replied. "On the other hand, I am not responsible of this. I was on my way to the Astronomy tower to give back my assignment to Professor Sinistra when someone-" at this she glanced at Neville Longbottom who was paling remarkably quickly "-decided to smuggle a dragon in the castle and place it in the same corridor where I was walking. If I was paranoid, I would say it was an assassination attempt on me. "
Alexandra turned the rest of her voice in her best ironic tone. "Though I must give points of originality for the method chosen. A dragon is really not the common method to get rid of someone."
The sarcasm apparently went over the head of Professor McGonagall, who turned with eyes blazing fury in direction of the Boy-Who-Lived.
"Mr Longbottom?" Drawled the Head of House Gryffindor.
All arrogance seemed to have deserted the leader of the Golden trio, who was at a loss to give a credible explanation why he was running after a young XXXXX creature in the corridors of Hogwarts.
"Now, now. Minerva. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for what Mr Longbottom did. Why don't we go back to my office to discuss what really happened?"
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