"Are you kidding?" Morag asked. "You managed to defend yourself from twenty students on your very first day at school, defeated every student who tried to ambush you and ultimately killed a mountain troll and a Professor by yourself!" Morag seed to have checked her sources since the Sorting. "Do you realise how rare that is?"
"Very, I suppose." Admitted Alexandra. "Else so students I know the na would have banded together and dealt with . Permanently."
"That's...that's not a very nice outlook on life."
"No, it's not." Alexandra agreed, waving her right hand in a sign translating how powerless she was to change the situation. "Unfortunately, it's the life I have been dealt with."
Alexandra emitted a small smile. "Why are you here, Morag? Apart from giving heart attacks?"
"Officially, I want you to tutor in practical magic." Said the Ravenclaw, her blue eyes deadly serious.
"Tutor you?" Repeated Alexandra. "But you don't need tutoring! You were just behind in the rankings of first-year!"
"Exactly."
"I must have missed a point sowhere. Care to explain?"
Morag nodded, making a tress of her red hair almost unconsciously.
"You and Hermione Granger have certainly realised all the pure-bloods who entered Hogwarts have already a basic magic education in theory."
"Sure. And Professor Flitwick said Neville Longbottom had an official dispense from the Wizengamot to begin a magical training earlier than usual."
"Yes, Neville is a special case." Said Morag with a nod of her head. "If the rumours about him are true, he received his first wand when he was nine years old."
Alexandra stared open-mouthed at that. The Boy-Who-Lived had received a wand two years before she was aware the Wizarding World existed?
"I thought every child could only buy a wand at Ollivanders when they were eleven years old."
"That's the law. In reality, any old wizarding family worth the na has a lot of ancient wands lying in its vaults, and it's rare none are tuned to your magic. If it's not the case, there are always foreign shops that have a lower age requirent. The Houses just never advertise it. I received my first wand on my tenth birthday. Do you see where I'm going with this?"
"Yes, I think I do." Alexandra sighed. "In one year, Hermione and I beat all of you, despite you and most of the pure-bloods having a good head-start on us, who co from having a non-magical education."
"Exactly."
"That doesn't make any sense in so ways, though." The twelve-years old girl remarked, caressing absently her quill. "If you have the possibility of being taught magic and practise it before Hogwarts, how co people like Crabbe, Goyle, Smith, Weasley and others have marks so low? They would have to..." Alexandra had a horrified understanding in her mind. "They are that bad AFTER having had a preliminary magical education?"
The girl in front of her grumbled sothing which sounded like "apes" and "idiots" before fixing Alexandra in the eyes again.
"Yeah, they're that bad. And the gap is only going to widen in the next years. There are only two months of sumr holidays, don't forget, and all the Heirs and Heiresses have social obligations we must train for and participate. Balls. Courting. Business etings." Enurated the red-haired Ravenclaw.
"Fine. But why ?" Alexandra asked."Aren't they private professors willing to go to Hogwarts? Or older students wanting to teach the younger ones?"
"They are." Affird Morag MacDougal. "But you need the board of Governors and the Headmaster approval. Professor Dumbledore had refused every ti since he beca Headmaster to let a professor not paid by him enter the grounds." Her voice had turned rather frosty at the last sentence. Evidently, Morag and her family weren't the biggest admirers of the Headmaster.
"And older students are an option, but only at the beginning of the year. After, they have too little free ti to spend it giving lessons. You, on the other hand, are already in the castle and you are much better than I am at the practical part of the classes. So yes, I want you to tutor ."
"Why should I accept? I refused already once sobody, and don't take it badly Morag, but before the Sorting Ceremony of Tuesday, I don't rember talking with you at all."
"I know you refused Zabini's offer."Affird her fellow second-year Ravenclaw. "Oh, don't be so shocked," she said as Alexandra eyebrows rose. "Everything at Hogwarts is known by everyone in a matter of minutes, especially when there's Lions or Snakes around."
"Too true." Alexandra answered, though thinking inwardly she would have to be a bit more careful who was around when she spoke to soone she didn't trust.
"But unlike Zabini I can give you an alliance with House MacDougal. Many of your enemies will hesitate to attack you in the corridors if I'm here with you."
"And unofficially?"
"I want a friend."
Alexandra paused a mont to consider. Honestly, considering the numbers of students per ambush last year, she was really not that sure adding one more second-year girl would have a deterring effect. On the other hand, having one ally inside the walls of the school could only be a good thing given the madness reigning in the school. Chances of survival and all of that.
Morag had never been among the students whispering dark rumours on her in the corridors in her back. And the shared classes in Potions had showed the red-haired pure-blood was not the worst person to have to your side.
After a few more seconds, Alexandra made her Heiress ring flash on her hand. Morag made a similar move with her own ring on the other side of the table.
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