Suddenly, the plates and the glasses shone of a silver light, before filling themselves from a lot of food and drinks.
"Finally!" Exclaimed one of the large black-haired boys who was directly right to Draco Malfoy. "Thought we weren't going to eat at all in this cursed place!"
Alexandra smiled an instant at this Gryffindor-like exuberance and prepared to join the almost unoccupied her eyes, before narrowing her eyes suspiciously. Yes, the adults had decided to feed them... but with what exactly? Given the gloomy atmosphere and the dark ambiance encountered, not to mention the remark of the Burke wizard earlier, they was no guarantee the food hadn't been cursed. Indeed, given the rumours spread about the Black family, she felt prudent to not touch anything, in spite, or rather because, not sensing anything suspicious near the plates. Alexandra continued to lean against the wall, and the red-robed girl had not moved in the slightest too.
The rest of the teenagers and children present did not share her view on the situation. Longbottom, Weasley, Draco Malfoy, the other three Black-featured boys were eating, devouring and swallowing the food at an incredible speed.
"By pure curiosity, Edmund." Talked the black-haired girl with a bored expression." How does the food taste like?"
One of the boys at Malfoy's table guffawed, and took another part of meat, swallowed it before answering "Why? Some regrets Astrid?"
The black eyes of the girl named Astrid scintillated something evil and malevolent.
"Oh, no Edmund. You! What is your name?" The red-robed girl asked Alexandra.
"Alexandra Potter."
"Hah. I see." Said Astrid in a languish voice, like she was about to reveal something absolutely astonishing. "Do you want to explain those idiots why eating was a very bad idea?"
"Because we're in a House owned by a Black?" Tried the black-haired Ravenclaw.
"That's a reason." The red-uniformed witch bared her teeth like a tiger about to pounce on her prey. Then she walked towards the table and smelled the plates, before delivering a few malicious sentences. "All the meals are smelling cinnamon, orange and lemon. Potions lesson for dumb wizards: it is one of the basic methods to hide the presence of most low-levels poisons."
The five teenagers and children seated stopped eating with the synchronicity of a single individual. Percival Weasley threw up what he was eating. Neville Longbottom was looking at the bean on his fork with an expression of horror.
"Exactly. I see at least one person had the intelligence not to eat. As for the rest..." The black glaze of the girl was not really warm. "They deserve exactly what's going to happen to them."
The boy named Edmund wasn't listening anymore. The moron screamed "WE HAVE BEEN POISONED!" and ran to the door, seizing the handle and trying to open it. There was a flash of red light, and the boy fell to the floor unconscious, struck down by the magical trap.
"EDMUND!" Shouted the two other boys, running towards their relative.
"NO!" Shouted Neville Longbottom."DON'T..."
The body of Edmund was still in contact with the door, and when the two boys tried to drag him away from it, they received the same treatment. Red light flash. Falling on the floor unconscious.
"Imbeciles." The word was pronounced by the other girl with a venom Alexandra was truly scared of. "You English wizards are really disgraces to the magic."
"But...the poison?" Stuttered Draco, whose face was as livid as one of the ghosts. "We need to call Professor Snape! He has always antidotes on him..."
"Shut up, Malfoy." Snarled Longbottom. "They're simply saying lying to make you panic! There's no way they will poison me, I am the Boy-Who-Lived, killing me would be...oh..."
The Gryffindor had not the opportunity to finish his sentence, lowering his head and vomiting in the plate he was just eating from instants ago. Next to him, Percival Weasley emitted a fart so powerful his robe rose and a disgusting sound signalled...that something disgusting had happened. Then he vomited too. More fats and noises of vomiting resonated, as Draco Malfoy and the three unconscious boys joined this nauseating spectacle. The face of the blonde pure-bloods was now green with boils and all the boys were busy spitting out everything they had eaten since the start of the day.
"I have seen enough."Alexandra said, struggling against the odour and the need to vomit. Whoever had put the potions in the meals, murder had not been in his or her mind. More like providing an awful humiliation. "Let's get out of here."
Frankly, she had had enough of this dark place. No one to greet them at the arrival, a manor which was one step away from demolition, and now a lunch spiked with semi-awful potions? There were more productive ways to pass the time. Homework. Flying. Reading. Chatting with her friends.
"And how do you think you will get out?" Said Astrid in a teasing tone. "The door is warded and cursed. I doubt you have the skills in Runes to unlock it."
"We are witches." Answered Alexandra, drawing her wand from her holster and paying no attention whatsoever at Draco Malfoy rolling in his own vomit in pain. "Superior to the boys in every way which matters."
"Errr... sure." Replied the other girl, obviously not seeing where she was going.
"BOMBARDA!" Alexandra casted against one section of the wall, close to the door. Her spell struck the wood and the resulting explosion scattered a lot of splinters and fragments, with smoke darkening her view. Twenty seconds after, the smoke had dispersed enough to see the hole she had just made.
"If we have no exit, we create another." Alexandra declared, crossing the hole and emerging in the corridor.
"Impressive." Said Astrid. Her expression was less condescending and more on the 'impressed' level, as she passed the gap just created. "I was not aware Hogwarts told the Bombardment spell to second-years. Are you often doing the same thing at Hogwarts?"
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