The Stickfast Hex had only one main application: stick someone shoes to the ground. Of course, it was useless against professional duellists who knew how to protect their foot and their legs, but the Slytherins she was fighting were not professionals. Vaisey and Bulstrode didn't stop running, and as such slammed on the floor on their face when their shoes were suddenly stuck on the floor. Parkinson slammed into the wall and didn't move anymore. But Nott managed to immobilise himself in time.
"ANTEOCULATIA!" Theodore Nott snarled, having apparently not appreciated at all seeing his housemates falling one by one.
Alexandra raised an eyebrow at that. She had just taken down eight students, and Nott wanted to curse her with horns? This boy had really no sense of priorities.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!"
And Nott joined the rest of the first-Slytherins unable to move on the floor of the corridor.
Fifty meters away, Draco Malfoy looked at her with fear and shock on his face. Transpiring and breathing hard, the self-proclaimed leader of Slytherin had apparently not fully recuperated from their little jogging in the corridors of Hogwarts. Too bad for him. However, she had not the intention to let him run to Snape's office and proclaim an outlandish piece of fiction which had no contact whatsoever with reality. Seeing the heir of the Malfoy family beginning to run in the other direction, Alexandra pursued him and reduced the distance without effort, the escape speed of her last opponent being desperately slow.
"LOCOMOTOR MORTIS!"
The spell touched Draco Malfoy in his back and tied magically his legs together. As the blonde was running without even thinking of what she could throw at him, the effect was immediate. Draco Malfoy lost his equilibrium and crashed into a painting representing monks, before collapsing slowly against the wall, visibly unconscious.
"And this was the last. Ten out of ten." Alexandra said.
Looking around her, she wondered how she was going to explain the new attack. This was not like the long-lasting feud between Gryffindor and Slytherin: unlike Longbottom and the Lions, no one was going to try to protect her against the wrath of Lucius Malfoy. Unless...
Grabbing Draco Malfoy by the feet and dragging him where the other nine students had fallen, Alexandra had a very nasty thought. The Ravenclaws and the Slytherins knew she was responsible for their predicament. But should someone unknown modify the scene of the 'crime' to make it even more pathetic for her attackers, well. Perhaps the students lying defeated at her feet wouldn't dare go to Snape and declare their distorted version of the events. The Potions Master didn't like the three other Houses, but he hated even more seeing when his Snakes were caught doing the deed they were accused of. With a smile which would have made a predator take three steps back, Alexandra began to cast Charms on the corridor. Her work done, she gathered the ten wands of the Ravenclaws and the Slytherins and left the sixth floor where the fight had taken place. Alexandra had a Head of House to inform, her version of events to spread around Hogwarts and ten wizards wands to deliver.
"Now if only all the problems were all that simple to solve..."
April 26 1992, Hogwarts, Scotland
In the end, Alexandra's subterfuge had worked. The vanquished Ravenclaws refused to reveal anything concerning the events of this Saturday afternoon. The Slytherins, with one notable exception, followed this politic of silence. Her plan of using spells of magic painting on them had worked beautifully, especially as she had used gold and red bright colours and drawled a magnificent lion on the wall above the unconscious and immobilised Ravens and Snakes.
The Hufflepuffs third-years who had discovered the scene had laughed all the way from the corridor to the Great Hall to inform the professors of these news. As Alexandra had used nothing more dangerous than the overpowered Lumos, the ten boys and girls she had just made a laughing stock of had recuperated completely by the next morning and were in the first lines to be witness of their humiliation. The added point of Flitwick owning their wands and having the true version of the battle (minus the fact Blaise Zabini had warned her of the ambush) had forced the Ravenclaws and the Slytherins to shut their mouth and adopt a low profile. Being pranked by a band of Gryffindors was one thing. Openly announcing this was not a prank from the Lions but the result of a failed attack where they had outnumbered their opponent ten-to-one and been totally defeated would have been the equivalent of a political suicide in the castle. Too bad one of the ten vanquished students was too stupid to understand it.
For the ten thousandth time of the year, Alexandra had asked herself the question why Draco Malfoy had been sorted in Slytherin. The Malfoy heir only ambition was to rival Neville Longbottom. There were honestly worse things to thrive for.
However, Draco Malfoy had proved once more he was an insult to the qualities of cunning and ambition by going immediately to Snape at the hour of breakfast and spouting an adventure where Alexandra herself and Neville Longbottom, along with two dozens of Gryffindors and Ravenclaws, had trapped the courageous and valiant Slytherins on the sixth floor. Outnumbered five-to-one, the Slytherins had still managed to stun three Ravenclaws before falling under the weight of the numbers. In term of faked history, it was a piece of art. Unfortunately, Malfoy had once more miscalculated. None of his followers or the Ravenclaws present had wanted to confirm his version of events; in fact it had alienated his former allies inside the Ravens ranks. Alexandra personally denied his story having happened in reality (which was true: Malfoy had lied and told another version of the battle). Neville Longbottom had been assigned a detention with Sprout for running out in the corridors after curfew at the very moment the attack was supposed to take place, as a result the Boy-Who-Lived had an alibi. Consequently, it was the words of Draco Malfoy against all the students who had been accused, and while Professor Snape had appeared ready to punish everyone on such flimsy evidence, Professor McGonagall had disagreed and had given a week of detentions Draco for lying to a professor and provoking fights in the corridors. The Transfiguration mistress had also removed fifty points from Slytherin.
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