Harry Potter : King of the Amazons By TheSilverboar

Chapter 21

-Harry-

Walking into the classroom he gazed at his nervous and twitching classmates as they anxiously awaited the day's lesson. It had been almost two months since the new term began and every teacher, bar their new defense professor, had been in a panic about the soon to be arriving guests. They had three days left until the foreign schools would be on campus and the nerves caused by that knowledge were only worsened in his classmates as today their defense instructor would be performing the Imperius Curse upon them. Sitting next to Neville in the back he thought back to their classes' first 'lesson' on the unforgivable curses.

-Flashback-

"You can put those away," their new teacher, Alastor Moody, growled, the scarred man limping into the room just as the class was scheduled to start "those books. You won't be needing them.". "Now," the man began after calling roll, the ex-auror's electric blue eye flitting to each student when they answered while the brown one stayed focused on the parchment "I've gone over the notes from your previous teachers and found that you lot are woefully behind on dealing with curses. Actually, a better statement would be that most of you are behind in general with who you've had teaching for your first few years here.".

And so the Professor had begun to go into a lecture about the various uses and levels of curses, how some were illegal and others weren't, and a bit of the course aims for the term. Finally though the man started drawing the lesson to a close by asking "Now…do any of you know which curses are the most heavily punished by wizarding law?".

The second the words left the teachers mouth several hands shot into the air, every half-blood and pureblood apart from his close group of friends along with Granger raised their hands and the man immediately focused in on Ron Weasley and pointed for the fool to answer, something he noted with more than a little amusement upset Hermione Granger. "Er…" the red haired garbage bin offered hesitantly "I…I remember my dad mentioning one of them…the Imperius Curse.".

"Aye," Moody said, the man's tongue flitting out like a snake's "your father would know all about that one. Caused the ministry quite the problem after the fall of You-Know-Who. Trying to figure out who had followed him willingly and who were being controlled.". With surprisingly fast reflexes the man's arm shot out and grabbed a spider form a jar on the front desk and placed it onto one of the empty tables. "Imperio!" the man intoned, pointing at the spider which frozen in place and remained as still as a statue.

"Complete and utter control," Moody growled "whoever you put under this spell will obey your every wish and feel higher than a cloud while doing so. It takes a great deal of will power to even remember what you were ordered to do and even more to actually resist the spell. For most people they won't be able to resist in the slightest and won't remember a damn thing once it's lifted. Added to that muggles have an even harder time resisting it than magicals due as the spell also has to fight off the power of the magical core in witches and wizards. This spider though has no magical core and no real willpower so it won't be able to resist. I can, for example, order it to leap from desk to desk." At those words the spider sprang into action, scuttling along the wooden surface it stood upon before leaping to the next table and then the next one after that. "I can order it to sit upon one of your heads." the spider leapt up and landed on the head of Ron Weasley who froze, began shaking, and, if the smell was any indication, wet himself.

As this was going on the other students, bar his friends, the shivering Ron Weasley, and Granger, began laughing and clapping "Talented isn't she?" Moody cackled "What shall I have her do next? Bite one of you with her venom?" At those words the room froze as Moody levitated the spider away from them but it was clear it was making biting motions "Jump out the window? Drown herself?". With each sentence the spider tried to carry out the new order before Moody dropped it into a glass jar and ended the curse as it seemed to slump down in relief.