The Maneater Of Hogwarts || yn x Hogwarts ||

Helping Hand

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As the new teacher, mad eye moody, walked into class he greeted us all with a "hello".

He wasn't the most happiest, he didn't smile at us. There was also something a little odd about him, he only had one eye. One of his eyes were covered with a sort of metal eyepatch with a fake eye over it.

It's difficult to explain but that's basically what it looked like. Anyway he introduced himself then just got on with the lesson. "Today we'll be learning about the unforgivable curses, can anybody remember one of the three?" He asked as he stands up from his chair and walks to the front of the desk. Hermiones hand shoots up like a firework. "You with the curly hair" Moody says as Hermione takes her hand down and starts talking "The imperious curse, the-" moody cuts her off, "I said one, not all of them. But yes you are correct. The imperious curse,
My my" He says as he picks up a jar and starts walking around. The jar was the same size as his hand and it had a spider in it.

He twists open the glass jar and sets the lid aside and picks the spider up. He then pulls his wand out and yells "Imperio!!" As soon as that word left his mouth the spider lept out of his hand and into a thin piece of thread, as if it was on show for the whole class to laugh and stare at it. It swung backwards and forwards. "Somebody tell me another one of the curses" he said as he looked back into his desk, I assume he was looking at the register of the class. "How about.. yn, where's yn?" He asked as he looked around the class. I raised my hand slightly as the class turned to look at me. "The Cruciatus Curse" I muttered as moody nodded. "Very well done, you're correct." He said as he brought his hand over to the spider which was now about to jump from his desk. "Up, up" he said to the me as I walked over to him slowly.

He brought his hand into the position to cast the spell. "Crucio!" He said as the class fell silent. My eyes went wide.

You could hear a pin drop.

Don't think really anybody in the class hear anybody say those words out loud before on purpose. The spider immediately stopped its intentions of jumping of the desk as it started shivering and shaking on the desk.

You were able to hear the spider screeching in pain, I never knew spiders could even make noise. I looked around and seen Neville sitting at the front, looking like he justs when a ghost. Somebody finally spoke up. "Stop it, can't you see it's bothering him!" Hermione said as she leaped out her seat and slammed her hands on her desk. I looked over at Neville, I thought it was because he maybe just really liked spiders.

"Alright, alright" moody said as the spider stopped screeching as he picked the poor creature up. "Perhaps you could tell us the last curse, Ms Granger?" Moody asked. Hermione shook her head. Moody looked at his wand then the spider. "Avadakevra" Moody said as the spider dropped dead. I'm aware it's an insect but it was a bit disturbing to watch. I looked over to Harry, who was staring wide eyed.

The class was over, it felt like it went on for hours. As we all packed up I noticed Nevil being more shaky and scared than normal. He was always one of those people with a frightened look on his face naturally but it was different this time, more emotion.

As he quickly packed his bag to walk out I went over to him. "Hey, it's okay. The spiders not hurting anymore" I said as I held his wrist as I stood in front of him. "I-It's not that" he said as he struggled to get the words out. I was confused what he meant, then I remember his parents. I remembered what his parents went through. "Oh shit, Neville.. I'm so sorry you had to see that after what's happened. I'm here if you want to talk" I said to him as I seen him struggling to hold back his tears. "Thank you, but I'll be fine" he sniffled. I felt so sorry for him.
"Don't be silly. I can see your not okay, we've got library now so let's go and I'll talk about it with you there. Your not alone Neville please don't ever think you are" I said as I brought him into a hug. He was surprised I hugged him at first but a couple seconds later he hugged back. "Let's go" I smiled in a soft voice as we walked down the twirling staircase and into the library.

Once we made it to the library we sat at a table next to a large, thin but long window. "Just remeber Neville, your never alone" I said to him as we both sat down with our book. "I know, but the feeling of loneliness has never left me after my parents did" he said as he leans his cheek on his hand and starts fidgeting with the pages of his book. "They haven't left you and they never will, there is always a part of them with you. Have you ever been told any stories of them?" I ask him.
"My Grandma once told me when they were teenagers they travelled across the UK to meet eachother just from seeing one photo of each other and that's how they met in real life for the first time" he said as I seen a smile and a glimmer in his eye.
"Thats beautiful, but that memory never left you so why does that mean they have too aswell?" I said, since it was more of a rhetorical question he never answered but just smiled a little and shrugged his shoulders. "They're always with you Neville, so I pray you never think just because of what happened to them they stopped loving you. Because they never have and never will. Anybody would be stupid to not like you" I smiled at him. His cheeks went a tint of pink as he smiled.

"I don't know if you need to hear this or not but it was never your fault Neville. Voldemorts the biggest prick out there and he sent out his minions because of his own selfishness" I said. I would defend Neville with my life, he was genuinely one of the only people who never looked at me differently over the summer.

"Thank you yn, I really needed that. All of that" he said as he smiled. This time, with his teeth. I knew he was insecure about that so it made me feel special. "Your so welcome Neville" I smiled as I began reading my book.