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"ALASTOR MOODY"
apparently this auror guy was your new DADA teacher, and he sure looked like a loony. maybe even more so than trelawney.
you weren't in a great mood, your first tutoring lesson was directly after this and you still had zero clue who your tutor would be. you could only hope it's not some weirdo.
moody picks up some chalk, writing on the board, "ex-auror.." he writes his last name, throwing the piece of chalk onto the ground. "ministry malcontent.. and your new defence against the dark arts teacher. i am here because dumbledore asked me. end of story, goodbye, the end"
you blink, this guy sure was odd.
"any questions?" he looks around, one eye going one way and the other going another.
everyone stays silent.
"when it comes to the dark arts... i believe in a practical approach"
you glance at hermione who was next to you like usual.
"but first, which one of you can tell me how many unforgivable curses there are?"
you furrow your eyebrows.
"three, sir" hermione answers.
"and they are so named?"
"because they are unforgivable. the use of any one of them will.."
"will earn you a one way ticket to azkaban, correct. and the ministry says you're too young to see what these curses do. i say different! you need to know what you're up against! you need to be prepared. and you need to find another place to put your chewing gum besides the underside of your desk, mr. finnigan!"
everyone looks back at seamus, who was, in fact putting his gum under the table.
he sighs out, "ah, no way. the old codger can see out the back of his head"
you hold back a very obnoxious laugh as moody throws a piece of chalk at seamus' head, who luckily dodges.
"and hear across classrooms!"
you breathe in to stop yourself from laughing.
"so, which curse shall we see first?" he steps in front of harry's and ron's desk.
"weasley!"
ron - who was looking back at seamus - flinches and looks up at him, "yes?"
"stand"
ron nervously and slowly stands up.
"give us a curse"
"well, my dad did tell me about one.. the imperius curse"
"oh, yeah, your father would know all about that. gave the ministry quite a bit of grief a few years ago"
you furrow your eyebrows.
"perhaps this will show you why"
he walks back over to his desk, taking the lid of a big mason jar and taking out some kind of bug. you shudder, that certainly had more than four legs and, as you may know, you don't like things with more than four legs.
he points his wand at it, "engorgio"
it grows larger, "imperio!"
he drags it upwards, flinging it around with his wand.
it lands on dean's book, then on crabbe's face, "don't worry, it's completely harmless!"
i do not care, if that thing lands on me i will die
he hangs it on top of ron's head, "if she bites... she's lethal!"
everyone was laughing along, you frown slightly,
i think everyone's forgotten he's quite literally using an unforgivable curse right now..
he laughs maniacally as he lands it on ron's face, draco laughs a little too hard from the corner as moody turns to him, "what are you laughin' at?"
he swings it over to draco's face who shouts, "get it off! get it off!"
moody laughs, "talented, isn't she?"
only when you're swingin' her around like that
"what should i have her do next? jump out the window?"
he swings his wand and the spider thing hits a glass globe.
"drown herself?" he says next, holding it above a bucket of water. by now, everyone had stopped laughing.
he places it back in his hand.
"scores of witches and wizards have claimed.. that they only did you-know-who's bidding.. under the influence of the imperius curse. but here's the rub : how do we sort out the liars? another, another"
a few people raise their hands, "up, up, come on"
even neville raises his hand.
"longbottom, is it?"
you look to neville.
"up"
everyone puts their hands down and neville stands up.
"professor sprout tells me you have an aptitude for herbology"
neville nods, "th-there's the um.. the cruciatus curse.." he says slowly.
"correct! correct! come, come" he gestures him over, you sink back in your seat in dread, not sure you like what's about to come.
"particularly nasty" he places the spider on the desk, "the torture curse" he says quietly.
"crucio!" the bug starts to scream a very high-pitched scream, you feel involuntary heat rise to your face, covering the lower half of your face with your robes, you frown heavily.
the bug looked in terrible pain, flailing about and crying.
neville looked pretty upset.
"stop it! can't you see it's bothering him? stop it!" hermione shouts.
moody finally takes his wand off the poor bug, it stops screaming and hunches over on itself.
moody places the bug on hermione's book, you reel back.
"perhaps you could give us the last unforgivable curse, miss granger"
hermione shakes her head, swallowing back her tears. you rub her hand under the desk.
"no? avada kedavra!"
you flinch back as moody kills the bug unmercifully.
"the killing curse. only one person is known to have survived it... and he's sitting in this room"
he walks over to harry, making an odd face and taking another swig of his drink, which obviously didn't taste good.
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date posted ; 21/04/22
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