This Can Never Be Real || George Weasley

Fifty

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐰

"What d'you think he's going to teach us?"

"How to enchant dustbins, probably."

Isa snickered then the door flew open and Madeye Moody hobbled in, making us all go silent. He pulled out a small scroll, glancing at it, then at the class.

"Seems you've had a pretty thorough grounding in tackling fair creatures— you've covered Boggarts, Red Caps, Hinkypunks, Grindylows, Kappas, and Werewolves, is that right?"

I nodded along with the rest of the class. Moody stomped his foot down, and his cane thumped on the floor.

"But you're behind on dealing with curses," Moody said. "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 the Dark Arts."

I raised my hand.

"Yes?" He asked.

"So you plan on staying a year?" I asked.

"Special favor to Dumbledore," Moody confirmed. "Your name?"

"Giselle Black."

Moody stared at me curiously, then nodded.

"So— straight to it, then. Cursed. The Ministry says I'm supposed to teach you countercurses and not show you what Dark Curses look like till sixth year, but I disagree. You're only a year away from that, what harm can it do? How do you expect to defend yourself against something you've never seen?"

Mazzy nodded her head vigorously.

"So, do any of you know which curses are heavily punished by wizarding law?" Moody asked.

A Slytherin girl's hand went straight up.

"Yes, Miss?" Moody asked.

"The Imperius Curse," She said.

"And you are—"

"Alice Roncorn," She replied.

"Ah, yes, you would know about that," Moody said. "Your father teaches Aurors to fight that curse."

Moody rolled up his sleeves and reached into one of the jars on his desk, taking out a spider.

"Imperio!" He said.

The spider began to float and swing in the air. It flipped in the air and landed right in front of Alice, cartwheeling.

"Awesome," She marveled, patting the spider's head.

"Years back there were a lot of witches and wizards being controlled by this curse," Moody lectured as he made the spider do all sorts of tricks across the room. "Some job for the Ministry, trying to sort out who was being forced to act and who was acting on their free will.

"The Imperius curse can be fought, and I'll be teaching you how, but it takes real strength of character, and not everyone's got it," Moody said. "Better avoid being hit if you can— CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"

Everyone jumped when he barked the last bit out.

"Anyone else know one?" He asked, making the spider stand still. "Another illegal curse?"

Isa raised her hand.

"The Torture Curse," She said. "I can't remember it's name..."

"It's called the Cruciatus Curse," Moody said. "Observe."

He waved his wand, making the spider considerably bigger. It was now the size of the palm of his hand, large enough to see from a distance.

"Crucio!" He muttered.