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"A normal day at Hogwarts." Remarked sarcastically Alexandra as the Badgers dispersed in a total panic. "Nothing new under the sun."
"Err, Alex..."
The twelve-year old witch looked upwards, assisting in slow motion at the efforts of Peeves to make a powerful water bomb with a balloon.
"Glacius."
The ray of ice thrown by Alexandra's wand turned the water and the balloon to ice.
"Wingardium Leviosa." The ice structure was projected against the ceiling, breaking in a little rain of ice, far away from any students.
"Not funny, Potty!" Whined Peeves. But seeing the raven-haired Ravenclaw pointing her wand directly at him and making small sparks, the poltergeist decided discretion was the better part of valour...and raced into the opposite direction, his metaphorical tail between his legs.
"Good job, Alex."
"We can't let this poltergeist continue this reign of terror, no? After all if this continues, the Lions and the Badgers will be more afraid of Peeves, than me, their Dark Lady."
"Merlin forbids this abominable possibility!"
"Exactly."
Although the non-magical-raised Ravenclaw wasn't sure why the wizards swore so much by Merlin and Morgana. The few tales and writings about these legendary wizards were as legendary and mythical in the Wizarding World as they were in the non-magical one. Gandalf and Sauron had a far more reliable story to believe in.
"The nargles approve of this, you know."
Alexandra turned her head to see the students who had intervened in her private conversation with Nigel. To her surprise, it was a first-year girl with pale, dirty blonde hair, grey-silver eyes, faint eyebrows and a set of clothes which could be described as ...weird, even by the standards of the Wizarding World. The Ravenclaw green-eyed witch tried to remind the name of the girl. By the set of arms on her robe, this one was one of her fellow Ravenclaw...the name clicked in her head.
"You're Luna Lovegood." The blonde witch gave her a dreamy smile of agreement, the kind you give someone when you have consumed too much alcohol or drugs. But even Vernon or Marge had never displayed this kind of dreamy faces after emptying a bottle of wine by themselves.
"Excuse me but what is a nargle?" Nigel voice was curious, and Alexandra had to admit she was interested too.
"Your head is full of wrackspurts, Alexandra Potter. Beware, Sword of Emerald. There is a storm of Heliopaths coming."
"Err...sure. You're coming with us seeing Quidditch Luna?"
After all when the situation is not making any sense...
"No, I don't think so. Catching moon frogs is more interesting." And on this, the Lovegood girl marched away and disappeared in the distance.
"That was a weird conversation." And that was really saying something, when your Potions Senior Professor was imitating the frightening appearance of fictional vampires, your Transfiguration Professor transformed into a cat and your Headmaster was either a genius or completely insane. Or both.
"Yeah." There had been several strange things happening at Hogwarts since their Sorting in first-year and Headmaster Dumbledore often said speeches no one could make head or tails, but the conversation which had just last seconds largely beat them without trying. Had this speech come from the Weasley Twins or any group of pranksters, Alexandra would have treated it like a joke. But Luna Lovegood had not behaved like someone who wanted to have a good laugh. Weird. What were a heliopath, nargles and moon frogs by the way?
"I find myself every day questioning the sanity of my fellow Ravenclaws." The Potter Heiress sent a last glance towards where Luna had left, before marching in the direction of the entrance. "You have an explanation for this behaviour, Nigel?"
"The Lovegood family has always a reputation of...eccentricity, shall we say?" Said the Gryffindor with a grimace.
"You know them?" Asked the twelve-year old witch as they arrived in the great marble stairs and were about to pass near the Great Hall.
"Not really, no." Admitted Nigel. "But the Lovegood family own a newspaper, the Quibbler, and I searched for journalist opportunities..."
"Ah. What did you learn?"
"The Lovegoods are a very ancient, but also very poor pure-blood family. They were in the Wizengamot in the 1800s, but lost their seat after their Heir tried to demonstrate his ability to tame a dragon in the middle of Hogsmeade."
Alexandra could not help but pale at this information.
"A fully-grown dragon?"
"Yes, an Hebridean Black. It went awry. A major disaster."
"No kidding." Alexandra had met a baby dragon last year and the little beast had been tough to beat for its size. A fully-grown one...there were less painful ways to die. Classed as XXXXX creatures, known wizard-killers, dragons were less dangerous than Summons, but that was like saying cholera was better than plague, a very meagre consolation. Marching in the grass, the Ravenclaw witch really hoped all a sudden that Luna Lovegood did not intend to walk in her ancestor's steps. Hogwarts was already too much 'interesting' on an average day.
"They have a modest house at Saint Ottery Catchpole if I remember correctly; it's a fairly nice village with several other wizarding families."
"It's the home town of the Weasleys, no? I remember the third member of our inestimable Golden Trio saying he lived there in a Defence class."
The noise and the chaos generated by the different crowd of supporters rushing to the stadium after that put a temporarily end to the conversation. A massive column of red, with an opposite yellow, was in formation. Logical, when you knew the name of the confrontation.
Today was Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff, third Quidditch match of the season.
After their unexpected victory against the Nimbus 2001's boosted Slytherin players, every bookmaker's apprentice at Hogwarts, led of course by the infamous Twin Terrors - also known as the Weasley Twins - was now guaranteeing a Gryffindor victory in the Cup. And it went without saying a particularly humiliating defeat to Hufflepuff for the week-end.
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