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Chapter 13 - DADA

Third Person P.O.V

The students were all deep in their own conversations waiting for their new professor to arrive. A man with one real eye and one robot eye. He looks to be about 37-38 years old. He was said to be one of the best ex aurors of all time. The class falls silent. He glances around the room looking at all the students before speaking.

Hermione P.O.V

"Alastor Moody." The professor says before he turns around and picks up a piece of chalk and starts writing on the blackboard.

"Ex auror." He says scribbling his name on the blackboard. "Or our Ministry malcontent." He says throwing the chalk to a side and facing the class again. "And your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I'm here because Dumbledore asked me. End of story. Goodbye. The end. Any questions?" Everyone stays silent.

"When it comes to the dark arts I believe in a practical approach. But first which of you can tell me how many unforgivable curses there are?" He turns slightly and no one answers so I speak up. 

"Three sir." 

"And they are so named?" He says scribbling on the blackboard again.

"Because they are unforgiveable." I say my voice cracking slightly. "The use of any one of them will..." 

"Earn you a one way ticket to Azkaban correct. Now the Ministry says that you're too young to see what these curses do. I say different." He says raising his voice. "You need to know what you're up against." He turns around so that he is facing the black board again. "You need to find another place to put your chewing gum besides the underside of your desk Mister Finnigan." I turn around and Seamus mumbles.

"Ugh no way the old codger can see from the back of his head." I turn around and see that Professor Mood has turned so that he's facing the class. He throws the chalk in Seamus's direction. All the students the students around him including Oliver and me duck. 

"And hear across classrooms." He say with his voice raised. Everyone turns to the professor slightly startled. He walks towards Harry and Ron.

"So what curse shall we see first?" There's a second of silence before he yells. "Weasley!" 

"Yes?" Ron says almost instantly with a terrified expression on his face.

"Stand." Ron does what he's told. "Give us a curse." Professor Moody says.

"Well..." Ron says meeting the Professor's eye. "M-my dad did tell me about one." Professor Moody nods his head. "Mhm." The professor says waiting for Ron to say one of the three curses. "The imperious curse." Ron says.

"Oh yeah your father would know all about that." Ron looks down and Fred and George look at each other before looking back at the professor. "Gave the Ministry quite a bit of grief a few years ago. Perhaps this will show you why." He says and walks back to the front of the class while Ron sits down. I get a bad feeling in my stomach. I am not looking forward to this lesson.

Professor Moody opens one of the jars at the front.

"Hello." He says in a sweet voice and picks up what looks like an amblypygid. He points his wan at the creature and says "Engorgio." The creature grows to the size of his hand. "Imperio." He points his wand to Dean and Neville's table and then the amblypygid leaps in front of the two boys. Dean looks at the insect with a terrified expression. Everyone giggles and then the insect lands on Crabbe's face and crawls up to his head. He puts his hands on his head trying to shoo the creature away.

"Don't worry. Completely harmless." Without another though Professor Moody points his wand Padma and Pavarti's table and the creature lands right on Pavarti's arm. Her breathing starts to quicken as the insect crawls up her arm and on to her shoulder. Everyone continues laughing and Professor Moody points his wand in Ron's direction and the amblypygid  is right above his head.

"If she bites...She's lethal." He laughs and the insect is on his head. Ron looks up in horror and I can hear Malfoy laughing his head off from the other side of the room. Professor Moody notices and looks in Malfoy's direction.

"What are you laughing at?" He points his wand at Malfoy and the next thing I knew was he was asking Goyle to get the amblypygid off of his face. Everyone laughs except me.

"Talented isn't she?" Professor Moody says. "What shall I have her do next...jump out the window?" He says and points his wand to the window and not even a second later the creature hits the window pane. Everyone falls silent and I feel my breath hitch. "Drown herself?" He says pointing his wand to the bucket below the window and the amblypygid is trying not to fall in. Professor Moody points his wand to his hand and within seconds he has a hold of the creature.

"Scores of wizards and witches have claimed that they only did You-Know-Who's bidding...under the influence of the imperious curse but here's the rub. How do we sort out the liars?" No one says anything. "Another...Another... up, up come on." I look around and see people putting their hands up before Professor Moody speaks again.   

"Longbottom is it?" I turn around and see the boy nod nervously. "Up." He stands up hesitantly before looking up at the professor. "Professor Sprout tells me you have an attitude for herbology." Neville just nods. "T-t-there's um the cruciatus... curse." he says sounding scared. "Correct. Correct. Come, particularly nasty." Neville walks up to the amblypygid looking quite pale.]

"The torture curse." Neville looks quite horrified whilst looking down at the creature. "Crucio." Professor Moody says and the creature on the desk starts making  crying noises causing Neville to wince and look away. I can't watch it anymore and before I know it I yell.

"Stop it. Can't you see it's bothering him. Stop it." Professor Moody looks at me before stopping the curse. The amblypygid and Neville sigh in relief. Oliver, Lee, Harry and the twins all look at me.

Professor Moody picks up the creature and walks towards me. "Um." He clears his throat before setting the creature sown in front of me. I feel tears sting my eyes but I push them down.

"Perhaps you could give us the last unforgivable curse Miss Granger?" He says and I look up at him and shake my head. I don't speak because I know that the tears will escape. I look down at my book. "No?" There's a moment of silence before he says "Avada Kedavra." As soon as the spell hit the amblypygid I feel my blood run cold and my heart stops.

"The killing curse." I look over at the creature dead in front of me before looking away again. "Only one person is known to have survived it and he's sitting in this room." I hear Professor Moody walk towards Harry and he gets his flask and takes a drink from it before heading back to the front of the classroom.

We spent the rest of the hour studying and Oliver kept glancing at me. When Professor Moody wasn't looking Oliver slid a piece of parchment towards me. I unfolded it and read.

Are you ok you look very pale?

I sigh and write on the parchment.     

Yeah I'm fine I just need some air once this lesson is over.

I make sure that Professor Moody isn't looking and slide the parchment back to Oliver. He reads it before writing something and sliding it back towards me. I read it.

Well fancy taking a stroll with me and we can talk more then?

I look at him and our eyes meet. I give him a slight nod and he sends me a soft smile.