Figuring she had at most ten seconds before she was a roasted Ravenclaw, Alexandra did something completely suicidal by her own standards. Cutting one part of the railing with a powerful Diffindo, she levitated the stone over the void where the stars should have been and jumped on it, praying her magic was strong enough to carry her own weight.
The dark light behind her told Alexandra she had made the good choice. Her last position before she jumped was now engulfed in the inferno of dark magic. Not that her new situation was really that much an improvement. She was now on a levitating stone, standing very very high over... nothing. She could not dodge or evade any spell coming at her. Devkins had only to wait right now for her the stone to fall and she was doomed.
Thankfully, her opponent didn't think she had managed to evade the spell and cancelled his deadly fire incantation. Just in time too: the stone she was upon was showing imminent signs of falling. Knowing she had only one chance before her enemy threw her another unstoppable assault, Alexandra rolled on the floor before her and shouted a powerful "BOMBARDA!" with all the power she had left in her at the ceiling.
Devkins's horrified face, appearing just as the leftovers of the black fire dissipated, was priceless when the ceiling began to explode over his head. Time almost stopped for Alexandra at that moment. The Ravenclaw had no idea if Devkins had the opportunity to acknowledge his demise and the fact he was not going to be powerful to stop the collapse of a part of the Hogwarts wing, and she would never will. But the man screamed a last incantation "MORTALIS NOX!" before a huge rock fell and bashed his skull like an overgrown fruit.
Alexandra had no time to rejoice. The dark coloured curse sent by the now dead professor was impossibly fast and she was too slow to dodge. The only thing she had time to do before it hit was raising her right hand. One second, the black-haired witch thought she had seen a golden light protect her arm before the black curse struck it. After that, she had far more imminent problems. Such was the power of the incantation Alexandra was slammed into the corridor's walls, and the shock took out all the air in her lungs in one second. Pain erupted in all the muscles and bones of her body, especially in her back and her legs. The young witch tried to move from her position against the wall, but only managed to collapse on her face and stomach, the after-effects of the incantation paralysing her. The pain was growing progressively unbearable.
"This is not how victory is supposed to taste..." The Potter Heiress whispered.
Closing her livid green eyes, Alexandra let darkness claim her.
May 25 1992, Hogwarts, Scotland
Pain. Unrelenting, eternal pain. That was all Alexandra felt when she regained consciousness. Her body felt like she had been bathed in a torrent flames in the dungeons of Barad-Dûr. She groaned in pain, trying to move, but her arms and legs refused to answer. Turning her head, she saw white walls and a white ceiling all around her. The green-eyed witch groaned. Unless she missed something, for the second time of her time at the magical school Alexandra had been transported to the Hospital Wing of Hogwarts unconscious.
After several seconds passing grunting and mobilising her energy, the Ravenclaw first-year managed to make her arms and her legs answer, allowing her to move in a better position on the bed she was currently lying on, confirming this was indeed the main room of the Hospital Wing. That was the extent of the good news. Seeing her right arm bandaged and immobilised in front of her, the memories of her taking a midnight-coloured curse in her right palm did not seem ridiculous after all. Nor was the fact she had broken curfew to save Hermione and a few moronic Gryffindors. In the bed in front of her, Lavender Brown was lying unconscious. By the looks of the bandages on her body, the gossip queen of the Lions had had her arms and legs smashed after a fall. Certainly the work of the flying keys in the trial of Flitwick.
Next to Lavender was Seamus Finnigan, who by his near-carbonised looks, appeared to have been caught in an explosion of epic proportions. A big one, for the Gryffindor to show such burns with his extraordinary precedents during the year. His hair were also worthy of the style 'mad scientist'. Finnigan was unconscious, although the Irish boy was groaning at irregular intervals "not the snare, not the snare" in his sleep. No need to be a genius to know the pyromaniac had tried to burn the Devil Snare only to nearly cook himself in the process.
Alexandra position at the end of the infirmary didn't allow her to see if others first-years were present too. She really hoped not, as it meant more persons had been seriously wounded, but in her heart she was sure the contrary was true. The two rooms where Seamus and Lavender had been in all likelihood hurt had not really been challenging for her on December 31 (or January 1 if one wanted to be accurate). Chances were very high someone had been injured fighting the mountain troll, drunk the wrong bottle and poisoned himself or been crushed by the weapon of an animated chessman. Alexandra just hoped it was not Hermione. The others Gryffindors were unimportant, her first friend was not.
Just as she was imagining all the possible injuries and damages the Golden Trio and the rest of the first-years may have encountered on their stupid quest, someone spoke to her left.
"Good afternoon, Neville."
It was the voice of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Alexandra turned her head, but the view to the Headmaster and the Boy-Who-Lived was sadly blocked by white sheet and white panels, letting only their shadows appear in a corner at the other side of the infirmary.
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