Hurt him?! Alice would do no such thing. A lesson last year had resulted in setting a classmate's hair on fire, worse still was that classmate was once a friend. No, Alice would not hurt Edison, even if it meant she failed DADA.

She scowled at him, her displeasure at the suggestion evident in her posture. "I'm meant to levitate you, not hurt you. Merlin, hurt you?!" Alice couldn't even kill an annoying bug that gnawed on her plants. (The bug just wanted to live, and she could find no fault in that.) "There has to be a way to master this without injuring you."