"You make my heart skip a beat"
"That's arrhythmia, Diggory"
Illeana Kasatkina is an average 16 year old living in Dublin, Ireland. Except, she is a witch. Currently studying in Hogwarts and freaking out over the world cup, wha...
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Their classes kept getting harder and harder. As it was the year of the OWLS, the teachers were piling on the homework and work.
Illeana found herself pulling allnighters in the first week that she arrived. But one of their hardest classes was Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Even though they didn't get a lot of homework there, it was the mental aspect of it that was much more taxing.
To their surprise, Professor Moody had announced that he would be putting the Imperius curse on each of them in turn, to demonstrate its power and to see whether they could resist its effects.
"But - but you said it's illegal, Professor," said Fiona Russell, a girl from Gryffindor uncertainly, as Moody cleared away the desks with a sweep of his wand, leaving a large clear space in the middle of the room.
"You said - to use it against another human was -"
'Dumbledore wants you taught what it feels like,' said Moody, his magical eye swivelling onto Fiona and fixing her with an eerie, unblinking stare.
"If you'd rather learn the hard way - when someone's putting it on you so they can control you completely - fine by me.You're excused.Off you go."
He pointed one gnarled finger towards the door.
Fiona went very pink, and muttered something about not meaning that she wanted to leave.
Moody began to beckon students forwards in turn and put the Imperius curse upon them.
Illeana watched as, one by one, his classmates did the most extraordinary things under its influence.
Leanne Nagamoto hopped three times around the room, singing Dirty Cash. Elaine Jackson imitated a tiger. Cormac Mclaggen performed a series of quite astonishing juggling tricks he would certainly not have been capable of in his normal state.
Not one of them seemed to be able to fight the curse off, and each of them recovered only when Moody had removed it.
"Kasatkina," Moody growled, "you next."
What Moody didn't know was that she had already read about this curse, it's effects and how to dissassociate yourself from it many a times.
Her father wanted to be an auror. He wrote all about his experiences during his training in a small diary. Her grandparents gave her the book to read when she was in her third year. She knew a lot about dark arts and how to fend yourself from them, as a result.
