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Drawing Glamdring from the scabbard she had hidden beneath her robes, Alexandra cast with her wand arm a rapid Expelliarmus. The wand of the Death Eater flew to her feet, not that its owner seemed to have noticed. The silver-masked attacker was screaming in pain and a stream of insults was coming out of his lips.
"You will pay for this Potter! I will kill you! I will bloody teach you how to respect your betters!"
Alexandra did not say a word. This wasn't her style and anyway the Killing Curse was all the justification she needed for the justice courts. Slowly, she raised Glamdring over her head.
"No! Wait! Wait!" The Death Eater realised his desperate situation and instantly stopped his stupid tirade. Not that it was going to save him now.
One powerful strike and the silver sword plunged into the Death Eater rib cage, silencing his last pleas. Drops of blood sprinkled over her robes and her hands. The movements of breathing went frantic before disappearing. The light in the grey eyes on the other side of the mask went out.
"Let the blood of Slytherin flow," murmured darkly Alexandra.
The young Ravenclaw witch waited a few seconds to see if there were more Death Eaters waiting outside, casting several cleaning charms to limit the amount of red-colour. Seeing there was no movement or any sign of an enemy, Alexandra rushed to the corner where Nigel had been blasted unconscious. Using the first-aid Charms Hermione had found in an outdated Healing book, the green-eyed girl sighed in relief. Nigel was going to wake up in a few hours with pain everywhere, a lot of blue skin and one or two impressive scars...but he would live and recover all his faculties. Ultimately, it was everything which mattered.
Using the same spells on Lockhart, the result was far less optimistic. But then Alexandra was no Healer and she could see at once it wasn't good. While Nigel and Alexandra had been thrown away by the shockwave of the unknown spell, the Defence Professor was heavier and had taken the attack in the face...literally. His visage, which had pushed hundreds of witches to the paroxysm of idiocy, was deeply burnt. The right arm and leg had received a fair portion of the fiery punishment too. In fact Gilderoy Lockhart was probably going to like this villain of the comic books Dudley read when he was supposed to do his homework, what was his name by the way? Double-Face or something like that...
Alexandra turned to the Death Eater she had just slain. Removing Glamdring from his rib cage, the Potter Heiress cut the fasteners of the mask to reveal the face of an older student often seen at the Slytherin table sprouting the 'pure-blood superiority' idiocy.
"Thomson Carrow. Why I am not surprised?"
The Heir of the Noble and Ancient House of Carrow had figured on the list of 'most likely suspects' for the entire disaster...but discussing it around a chimney and seeing his corpse in Death Eater clothes were two entirely different things. Moreover, there were going to be severe consequences for her actions. Legitimate defence or not, House Carrow was not going to like at all the minor fact she had murdered one of their scions.
Feeling the familiar disgust which came with the presence of Dark Magic, she unrolled the deceased's sleeves and found it. A proto-Dark Mark, one of the kind the first Knights of Walpurgis had used to brand themselves in the 1960s when the name Voldemort wasn't striking fear in the hearts of the Britain magical community.
A mark Thompson Carrow couldn't earn since the Dark Lord and each of his most powerful lieutenants able to make it were gone or imprisoned in Azkaban. They had disregarded the possibility of the Heir not being a student, but it appeared it was a major miscalculation. The Heir of Slytherin –or the person pretending to be it under Ginny Weasley's face – was at least a member of the Death Eaters' Inner Circle.
What I am going to do?
It bothered Alexandra a lot that she wasn't that angry about having killed another student. It bothered her and yet she couldn't really put her heart in it. Last year Devkins had come close to killing her. Could she hope to win against one of the Dark Lord's elite with one more year under her belt?
What I am going to do?
They wanted to solve the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets and stop the Heir? In one skirmish she had lost her only ally and a teacher! They were so out of their league it wasn't funny! The Slytherin bigots were now ready to use the vilest curses invented by wizardkind in the corridors of Hogwarts!
What I am going to do?
Loud footsteps were heard in the corridors. Not surprising, really. Their fight had been short, but certainly not silent or discreet. Alexandra felt despair pouring in her veins before gritting her teeth in grim determination. Her plan was in shambles, but the pieces were still in place. It was likely she would need the help of the Gryffindors to storm the Chamber of Secrets but her secret weapon could blind the Basilisk.
I am not going to die. That's a promise.
Rolling up her right sleeve, Alexandra activated the runic sequence the Amazonian magical menagerie had sent her. The cage was now open. The bat huntress was going to begin her hunt for the King of Snakes. There was a chance she would never know the outcome of this confrontation...but if the Basilisk lost the power to kill with his gaze a battalion of Aurors might be able to take it.
Climbing over Carrow's corpse, Alexandra left the ravaged office and faced the incoming wizards and witches. One moment ago, she had felt a small hope it was the Professors coming to investigate. Alas, the hooded figures having stopped forty feet away were not members of the teaching staff. Or if they were, they really had some disturbing choices of clothes.
They were three, and they were wearing similar variations of Carrow's Death Eater costume.
"Potter."
The magical filters were unable to erase fully the venom with which her family name had been pronounced.
"Death Eaters," retorted Alexandra.
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