To sum up, Alexandra felt Lockhart had managed to do in three days what usually took teachers in the normal world decades: destroying his reputation in a most complete and total manner. Well, apart in the eyes of a few fan-girls like Hermione and Lavender Brown. Certain persons, in Alexandra's opinion, refused to acknowledge the truth no matter the number of proofs available.
By contrast, the rest of the week for the rest of the Ravenclaw second-years was almost uneventful. Almost. It was Hogwarts after all. They had their first courses of Charms and Transfiguration with Junior Professor Jeremy Dhillon and Junior Professor Brandon Porchester, who by a strange coincidence were respectively forr alumni of House Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. Still, the two n were competent, which was more you could tell about Binns and Tiroflan for the courses of History.
Professor Cuthbert Binns was still a ghost and boring like no one in the world managed to be. Goblin Rebellions here, Goblin Rebellions there...Goblin Rebellions forever! For the next month and a half the course was going to be about the Goblins Rebellions having occurred under the Roman Empire era. Blood and massacres, but with Binns sauce. Boring to death. Professor Tiroflan was still as lazy as ever. Professor Jeremy Dhillon, on the other hand, was a polite wizard in his forties whose only strange characteristics was his green hair, which he explained was the last reminder of a very nasty Quidditch after-match between Ireland and England. Apart from that, the man had many similarities with Professor Flitwick, although Alexandra still preferred the forr Duellist Master. But perhaps she was a bit biased.
Professor Brandon Porchester, was more or less the sa way compared to Professor McGonagall: very strict, demanding and not tolerating any kind of bullying or disorder in his class. The Junior Transfiguration Professor was not able to transform himself into an animal like the Head of Gryffindor, alas. The skill, which was called Animagus, was apparently terribly difficult to learn. And he was not fond of making a spectacular demonstration in the beginning of the class either. But this teacher was fond of punctuality, a fact Byron Vaisey and Theodore Nott learnt by arriving a minute late and losing ten points each for Slytherin.
Apart from that things had been relatively calm. Alexandra had discovered the long roll of parchnt Flitwick had given her with her titable was a list of spells her Head of House wished her to master "as soon as possible" in his own words. Given that there was over fifty of them, Alexandra expected a lot of work. Mastering the first one, the Disarming Charm, incantation Expelliarmus, promised to be difficult as her first efforts had not been limited to disappointing red sparks. According a Defence book she had borrowed in the Common Room, the origins of the spell were rather vague. The British authors pretended it had been invented by rlin himself. More earth-to-earth historians proclaid it had been discovered and used by African wizards in Madagascar in the eleventh century. So much for historical accuracy.
It was not why Alexandra had woken up early on this Saturday cloudy morning, however. After a very fast breakfast, she went to the library. After what had happened this sumr, she wanted to know more about Summons and magical weapons.
The reason why the raven-haired young witch wanted to know about the first was kind of obvious. In the depths of the mountain, only running away quickly and a do-or-die teleportation had saved her life from the monster of flas and shadows. If she faced such a demon again, which with her chance wasn't impossible, Alexandra wanted to have a bit more options other than running away, running away...and teleporting a safe distance away.
For the magical weapons, it was a bit more complicated. The green-eyed witch wanted to know the powers and the na of the silver sword she had grabbed in the goblin vaults, the sword in question-rechristened Glamdring, being currently hidden in the last compartnt of her trunk. But since the twelve-years old had also seen a full goblin armoury, she also wanted to know why wizards and witches didn't use said weapons instead of their wands. Alexandra had seen the sheer power of the warhamr carried by the goblin general Warfist. This was far, far more power than anything generated by the hydra-core wand the Potter Heiress owned.
After one hour in the library, unfortunately, Alexandra hopes had been reduced to almost nothing. Using the magical index Madam Pince put at the disposition of every student making the demand, she had tried to search the term "Magical Summon", only to find Hogwarts library, celebrated as one of the best of the magical world, proposed in all...a single book on the subject. The work, Beings of Other Dinsions by a certain Percival Yaxley, was in many ways worse than useless. On the first page, the author reminded the reader in big, red and black letters the Summoning of an entity was an offence punishable by death in Magical Britain, without even the botherso need to organise a trial. The law had been apparently adopted in 1369 and never been repealed. Not exactly a good sign. Then the sa warning was repeated on the second page, the third page and every page from number 4 to 19, with grueso gravures reminding, in the author own words "how Summoning is a Dark Art and must be erased at all costs from existence" and "the number of deaths it has caused against wizards and witches is too huge for our society to bear". The rest of the book was a mix of so rumours, grandmother tales and the advice that if you ran into a Summon, you had to warn imdiately the Ministry of Magic to be properly interrogated. The last point being repeated no less than fifteen tis in four pages. In Alexandra's opinion, the book was worthy of the title 'scrap material'. The Ravenclaw girl had learnt more in two minutes seeing the goblin expeditionary force getting roasted than in half an hour reading this waste of parchnt.
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