Cerise Diggory didn't like annoying people, which is why she tried to avoid the Weasley twins as much as possible, but that seemed nearly impossible with George being made her Divinations partner.
[ cerise aurelia diggory x george fabian weasley ]
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CERISE WAS HEADING INTO Defense Against The Dark Arts, unaware that this lesson was a lesson that would make her never want to return to the classroom. Taking a seat next to Loralei at the front of the class, Cerise waited for Mad-Eye Moody to show up. Sitting behind them, were the Weasley twins, with Cedric and Cho on the desk next to Cerise and Lee and Marietta on the desk next to Loralei.
"You can put those away," Moody growled, stumping over to his desk and sitting down, "those books. You won't need them."
Moody took out a register, shook his long mane of grizzled gray hair out of his twisted and scarred face, and began to call out names, his normal eye moving steadily down the list while his magical eye swiveled around, fixing upon each student as he or she answered.
"Right then," he said, when the last person had declared themselves present, "I've had a letter from Professor Lupin about this class. Seems you've had a pretty thorough grounding in tackling Dark creatures — you've covered boggarts, Red Caps, hinkypunks, grindylows, Kappas, and werewolves, is that right?"
There was a general murmur of agreement.
"Well you are very far behind," said Moody. "So I'm here to bring you up to scratch on what wizards can do to each other. I've got one year to teach you how to deal with Dark —"
"So, you're not staying?" said Cerise, sending a look Cedric's and Loralei's way. "I told you guys so, didn't I?"
"You're Amos' daughter, right?" said Moody, making Cerise nod. "Nice man, Amos is. I'm staying just this year — special favour for Dumbledore. One year, and then back to my quiet retirement,"
Cerise leaned back in her chair.
"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 countercurses and leave it at that. I'm not supposed to show you what illegal Dark curses look like until you're in the last year. You're not supposed to be old enough to deal with it till then. But Professor Dumbledore's 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 about 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 polite to your face. You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Chang, when I'm talking."
Cho was showing Cedric her drawings from her book under the table.
"So. . . do any of you know which curses are most heavily punished by wizarding law?"
Several hands rose tentatively into the air, including Cedric's and Fred's. Moody pointed at Fred, though his magical eye was still fixed on Cho.
"My dad told me about one. . . It's called the Imperius Curse, or something along the lines of," Fred answered.
