Not retribution, just returning favor!

8: Luxuriant

Alastar Moody came over one dueling session to teach them. There was mummer in the classroom as excitement rose in everyone. Alastar Moody was a legendary Auror. His stories of capture of Death eaters and heroic ways of saving innocents were widespread. He looked the part. His face looked as if it was roughly carved from wood; he had a chunk of nose missing; he had a wooden leg as if it was clawed foot; and his body was covered in various scars. Everyone was looking at him in awe, except the trio who looked mildly surprised to see him. Remus wondered if they knew him somehow.

Moody looked at them with piercing, unforgiving eyes and said in a growling voice that them in attention,"Who can tell me what unforgivable curses are?" All of them rose their hands, except the Trio who had slowly made their way away from the main group towards the windows at the back. Remus saw Moody's eyes follow them but didn't say anything.

He pointed to Lily who said confidently,"These spell are unforgivable and use of any one of them will earn you.."

"...straight ticket to Azkaban with the dementors to keep you company.", Moody ended gruffly. He looked at the Slytherins standing at the side with stink eyes and distrust.

"Now, who can tell me what the spells are?", Moody asked impatiently. Johnson was standing behind him in alert, even if his eyes were focused on the trio. Johnson has gotten close to Harry during dueling sessions. He often partnered with her. They could be seen discussing spells after the dueling session ended. Sirius was highly pissed by that.

Again everyone rose their hands. Moody pointed it to Remus, who said,"Imperius spell."

"And what does it do?", Moody asked him curiously

He pointed to Sirius who said with a far off look,"Makes you do whatever they want. You have no choice over your actions. Things you think you were incapable of doing, you still do them."

Moody nodded and took out a spider. "Imperio!", he said loudly. His voice ran in the class. The Slytherins were looking on with interest at the spider. They all laughed when the spider started to do tap dance.

"You think this is funny. Is it still funny if I make it do this?(he made him dance on Snape's face) or this? (he made the spider almost drown in the water."

"Imperius curse is one of the worst kind of spell because you don't know what is happening. The Imperius Curse places the victim in a trance or dreamlike state, making the victim under its power profoundly susceptible to the influence of the caster. It is difficult to break this curse because you don't want to leave the comfort zone it creates. Resisting the Imperius Curse is possible, but extremely difficult. Only those who are particularly strong can even manage to achieve it. ", Moody explained.

"Now, who knows about the second one?", Moody asked, as he took out another spider from the jar.

Mandy, from Huffelpuff answered ,"The Cruciatus Curse"

"Ah! Yes. Another favorite of death eaters. CRUCIO!", Moody growled. The spider legs were twitching and he was obviously in pain. They could hear his 'screams'. It was awful. It looked awful. Merlin! The pain must be unbearable.

Moody after a while and looked at the class and said gravely,"The Cruciatus Curse inflicts excruciating pain upon the victim. You have to truly despise the victim and enjoy causing pain for it to have any effect. The extreme pain inflicted by the curse makes it uniquely suited as a form of torture and fun for death eater. Now who knows the last one?"

James raised his hand and said softly,"Killing curse."

Moody nodded. He put his hand into the glass jar and brought out the last spider. That spider tried to escape, only for Moody to raise his wand and yell 'Avada Kedavra!'