Ely was just about fed up with her house. After a couple of other attacks on her person, the last one practically leaving her paralyzed for a couple of minutes, she decided to fight fire with fire.

She felt the couple of hexes hit her walls when she trained her wand at the attackers.

Ely snarled a couple of pretty nasty spells at the two girls that had tried to hex her. Once her face erupted in boils, and the other felt a certain itch suddenly overcome her whole body. "Weak." Ely spat as they ran towards the hospital wing.

She was prepared as she felt a presence behind her and deflected whatever spells had been intended for her. Ely smirked slightly as she saw the girl that had originally started this trend of attacking her. She didn't even have the chance to open her mouth as Ely hit her with a babbling curse, then with the Colloshoo spell, and finished with Flipendo which caused the girl to fall back on her butt.

"That's all you got? You're a disgrace to Slytherin." Ely's wand was trained on the girl as she her eyes widened in fear. Ely assumed the girl was trying to plead some sort of mercy but due to the babbling curse she couldn't understand a word. She left the babbling spell on her while also adding an Illegibilus on the girl as she ran away.

Unfortunately Ely wasn't quite done. Within the next two days she had to hex about a fourth of her house, each on a separate occasion, and the professors were starting to get suspicious. Some Slytherins took the hint that she was not to be messed with, but others still persisted. Thankfully, the only attacked Ely when she was alone, which was not often, which meant that Bella was safe. On the third day, Ely found herself surrounded in the common room on her way to go to the Great Hall.

"So how are you going to do it Taylor?" A sixth year spat as all of them took a step towards her, wands drawn. "It's all of us against you."

"Doesn't seem really fair." She commented to which a fifth year chuckled.

"In case you haven't noticed, Slytherins don't play fair." He said which caused

"Oh I have…" With that she cast her first spell, and everyone else shot a hex. However, imagine everyone's shock when they heard a "BOOM!" and then felt themselves fly across the room. Without missing a beat, Ely had all their wands in next to her feet and no one could move a muscle.

She tsked as she looked at each and every one of them. "See what happens when you don't play nice? Now, normally I would hex each of you so badly you would all have to be escorted to the hospital wing in less than two minutes, but I will show mercy…" She disillusioned the wands and randomly hid them in separate places, while also making sure they couldn't use Accio to bring their wands back, although it was unlikely that any of them would have been strong enough to do wandless magic. "Are we all clear?" When she saw the slight fear in some of their eyes, pissed off on the rest of them, she smiled sweetly with murder in her eyes, "Glad we understand each other."

With that she walked out of the common room. She decided against going to the Great Hall like she had originally planned, she walked to the library to relax. She noticed no one was in so she let herself in and started to scroll through the shelves. She had relaxed herself so much by just trying to look for a particular book, she hadn't heard someone come behind her.

"Well Elanora, you certainly have caused a lot of havoc against your own house." Ely immediately stiffened as she felt the wand in her side. Lucius had gripped her wand arm and held on tightly, her body practically trapped against his.

"It's all about self-perseverance. Every man for himself Lucius, you taught me that yourself the first day I showed up."

He chuckled, "Always the bit of refreshing air. You always can back up what you say…" He poked his wand into her side just a bit harder. "I really must thank you for advising Narcissa, but you must know I was rather disappointed when you decided to go with that half-blood Ravenclaw instead. I don't take disappointment well Elanora; I'm used to always getting what I want."

He put an extra emphasis by squeezing her arm tighter, and Ely was desperate to figure a way out. She was an excellent duelist, but had never had any reason to be developed in hand-to-hand-combat, and her wandless magic abilities were not very developed.

"Lucius, you're hurting me." Ely whimpered as she felt a bruise starting to form on her arm.

"It's a powerful feeling isn't it Elanora? To know you have someone under your thumb. You can control them… They are at your mercy, and you decide what happens. It's addicting isn't it? I bet you've felt it whenever you have had to duel someone." He whispered in her ear as he pressed his wand into her middle, essentially immobilizing her from doing anything. Neither of them noticed the footsteps that had come towards them.