Chapter twenty
"beauxbatons and Durmstrang"
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September faded into very early October, the chlorophyll in the leaves were slowly disappearing, making the leaves turn into beautiful colors.
Their lessons were becoming more difficult and
demanding than ever before, particularly Moody's Defense Against the Dark Arts.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 Hermione 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 swiveling onto Hermione 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 toward the door.
Hermione went very pink and muttered something about not meaning that she wanted to leave. Harry, Ara, and Ron grinned at each other. They knew Hermione would rather eat bubotuber pus than miss such an important lesson.
Moody began to beckon students forward in turn and put the Imperius Curse upon them. Ara watched as, one by one, her classmates did the most extraordinary things under its influence.
Dean Thomas hopped three times around the room, singing the national anthem. Lavender Brown imitated a squirrel. Neville performed a series of quite astonishing gymnastics he would certainly not have been capable of in his normal state. Not one of them seemed to be able to fight off the curse, and each of them recovered only when Moody had removed it.
"Potter," Moody growled, "you next."
Harry moved forward into the middle of the classroom, into the space that Moody had cleared of desks. Moody raised his wand, pointed it at Harry, and said, "Imperio!"Harry stood there for a minute, looking as if he were on cloud 9. Then, he slowly moved towards the desk.
He had both jumped and tried to prevent himself from jumping — the result was that he'd smashed headlong into the desk, knocking it over."Now, that's more like it!" growled Moody's voice.
"Look at that, you lot . . . Potter fought! He fought it, and he damn near beat it! We'll try that again, Potter, and the rest of you, pay attention — watch his eyes, that's where you see it — very good, Potter, very good indeed! They'll have trouble controlling you!"
Ara was next, she walked up warily. He pointed his wand at her, just as he did to Harry, and said, "Imperio!"
Ara felt like she was floating. Then, a little voice told her to do a cartwheel.
No. What's the point?
Ara stood there for a moment, the voice getting louder and louder. Suddenly, Moody started to clap. She turned to look, and the whole class was silent.
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