𝖶𝖨𝖢𝖪𝖤𝖣 𝖧𝖠𝖳𝖤 | 𝖥𝖱𝖤𝖣 𝖶𝖤𝖠𝖲𝖫𝖤𝖸

8

THE THREE UNFORGIVABLE CURSES

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Everyone in the room seemed to have a lot of tension in their bodies. We weren't children anymore, we all knew pretty well what the unforgivable curses were and how much they affected the wizarding community.

"Does anyone know what they are? I bet some of our students know them pretty well." Moody started while his fake eye was moving in a really weird way. He looked specifically at where all the Slytherins were, then he took a large gulp from his flask. "Which is the first one?"

I swallowed hard, avoiding any kind of eye contact.

I knew exactly which one it was.

"The Imperio one, sir" a girl from Gryffindor replied with a soft voice.

Moody agreed and took a little cage with what seemed to be a spider in it. He put the little animal in the girl's desk, who was paler than before.

"Ok, curse it."

"W-what?!" the girl trembled.

"Curse it," he repeated as if he was asking her to read a paragraph in the book.

The poor kid swallowed hard and raised her wand. Almost whispering, she pronounced the Imperius and the animal positioned in such an unnatural posture as if it was a muppet.

"Move your wand"

The girl obeyed and as she moved her wand, the spider followed the movement, it looked like it was tied with strings.

Moody made a slow movement and the control of the spider went straight to his wand.

"Can someone tell me what happened?" he asked as if it was the most common thing in the world.

Everyone kept silent. Plums raised her hand but he ignored her. Instead, he went straight to Fred.

"Weasley?"

He had an expression of pure shock as his eyes kept focused on the animal under Moody's spell.

"She was controlling the spider's body."

"Right, with the Imperio curse you can make anyone do whatever you want them to do. If I compelled this animal to drown itself in a cube of water, it would do it without thinking twice. You can control the body but you would not control the mind. That is what makes this curse one of the most traumatic and controversial ones and why it earned its place as one of the Unforgivables."

I looked through the window. This was my mother's favourite curse. Fuck off, I bet Merlin himself that it still is. Back in the days when she was an active Death Eater, she used it lots of times to make other people kill in her name so even though she never killed anyone with her bare hands or wand, her psychopathic mind found the way to get rid of her enemies and Voldemort's ones as well. That's why he liked her that much.

I hated it there.

"Which is the second one?"

This time it was one of the boys from Slytherin who answered.

"The Cruciatus one"

Mad-Eye took the spider and, limping, walked to the boy and left the animal over his desk.

"Curse it."

The boy shook his head saying 'no' while his eyes were opened widely.

"Please, sir. Don't make me do it," he whispered.