The Fifth Champion, Harry Potter Year 4

14. The Unforgivable Curses

Lilly's POV
Everyone was there early before the class even started. Harry, Ron, Hermionie, and I went to the four chairs in front of the teacher's desk, Neville was one behind me and I smiled and did a small wave. He returned the gesture. We heard Moody before we saw him with his metal leg. He told us to put our books away and he said we were behind with dealing with curses... He told us he was staying only a year... Ron blurted out, "What, aren't you staying?"
Moody said, "You'll be Arthur Weasley's son, eh? Your father got me out of a very tight corner a few days ago... Yeah, I'm staying for the one year, special favor to Dumbledore and Miss Black. One year, and then back into my quiet retirement." He paused and continued, "So - straight into it. Curses. They come in many strengths and forms. Now, according to the Ministry of Magic, I'm supposed to teach you countercurse and leave it at that. I'm not supposed to show you what illegal Dark curses look like until you're in sixth year. You're not supposed to be old enough to deal with it till then. But Professor Dumbledore got a higher opinion of your nerves, he reckons you can cope, and I say, the sooner you know what you're up against, the better. How are you supposed to defend yourself against something you've never seen? A wizard who's against out to put an illegal curse on you isn't going to tell you what he's about to do. He's not going to do it nice and be polite to your face. You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking..."
Lavender put her horoscope sheet away and Moody wanted to know a curse heavily punished by the Ministry. Ron said the Imperius Curse. Moody made a spider do whatever he wanted, I refused to laugh because my jaw was clenched hard because this is not okay! A Ex-Ministry official is breaking the rules he had lived to uphold, he's very lucky I will not turn him in... He did the Cruciatus Curse on the spider in front of Neville, of all people. I was livid. I screeched, "Stop it! Enough, Moody!"
He complied and asked, "Any others?"
I raised my hand, he called me and I whispered, "Avada Kedavra..."
He replied, "Ahh, Miss Black. I was wondering when you had my class... Now kindly go to your real age and be the weak good girl you are..."
The Slytherins snicked, I kept my eyes on Moody and replied, "Kindly do not condicend me, Professor Moody. As you use the term weak, I assume you are referring to yourself? I mean, I did beat you in a Wizard's Duel."
He smirked and said, "That was over a year ago, care to renew that duel?"
I smiled deviously, "I would love to."
He barked, "Everyone move to the back!"
Everyone scrambled up and moved. Moody moved all of the tables to the side and I said, "Not to terrify the students, first to disarm the other person wins, no unforgivable curses..."
He replied, "When have I not done that?"
I rolled my eyes and said, "Never."
He smiled and said, "Then you know what to expect."
We faced each other and walked in a straight line farther. Then we started. I threw the first spell, "Stupefy!" He blocked it and threw a spell at me. I protected myself. Then, I shot another spell at him. For a minute we kept shooting spells at each other. He would attack and I would attack and we would use defence, it was just a lot.
Then he shouted, "Imperio!" I blocked it, but the spell shattered through my protective spell. He smiled and said, "Now come over here slowly and hand me your wand."
I walked calmly and as soon as I was only three feet away I yelled in my head, "Expelliarmus!" His wand flew up and I caught it... He smiled at me and I said, "And the student surpasses the master..."
He smirked and asked, "You were never Imperiated, we're you?"
I shook my head and said, "I win."
He nodded and I gave him his wand. I tuned my back and shouted, "Protego!" As Moody shouted, "Stupefy!" I smiled and he chuckled and said, "Back to your seats."
He continued saying, "Back to the cuses, ah yes, Avada Kedavra!" He pointed it at a spider and swept it onto the floor. My jaw dropped in shock. I was trying to deter him... For the rest of the lesson, we took notes on Unforgivable Curses. No one spoke until the bell rang. I met up with Neville after class asking if he was okay, he didn't look that okay. Moody called him into his office and into gave him a reassuring look. He was going to be okay. I hope.
After a quick dinner, Harry asked me if Moody and Dumbledore would get into trouble and I said, "That's how they are, they do something and then ask for forgiveness later. If the Ministry wasn't so tied up, I would report it, but this is something minor compared to what happened at the Cup. They are still answering howlers..." They boys went up and grabbed their Divination supplies while I waited for them to come back down. I was reading books that Molly got for me from Flourish and Blotts. They were making up things just to get through it, I'm kind of glad I finished it. Yes, I'm doing the time travel again to have a lot of classes. I get quite bored with it though.

Hermione started SPEW, I thought it was brilliant, but she doesn't exactly have the best plan to initiate what she wants to happen... anyway, Harry got a letter from Sirius, he wrote, "Harry- I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of strange rumors that have reached me here. If it hurts again, go straight to Dumbledore - they're saying he's got Mad-Eye out of retirement, which means he's reading the signs if no one is. I'll be in touch soon. My best to Ron and Hermione. Keep your eyes open, Harry. Sirius"
Another note was for me, he said, "Lilly, If you haven't heard from Harry's letter, I'm heading north in hopes to help and be close when needed... It was smart of you to bring in Mad-Eye, I just hope nothing is going to happen, given the Triwizard Tournament is there... Keep me posted! I love you, Lovely Lilly. Dad"
I touched the word dad with my fingertip amd smiled, but thay quickly disappeared. Harry was upset because he didn't want Sirius to come back for Harry jeopardizing Sirius' safety. I said to Harry trying to calm him down, "He was going to come back anyway, better sooner than later!" He sent Hedwig to the Owlery and he stormed off to bed. I knew he wasn't going to sleep. I took off my glasses, rubbed my eyes, and sighed. This was going to be a very, difficult year, I supoose. This is going to be fun.

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-Lilly :)