Chapter 7

Katja was in the middle of teaching her First Period Defence Against the Dark Arts about tactical uses of spells from other classes. Right as they were about to start a practical demonstration, Remus came hurrying in. "Ms. Wagner!" he said frantically.

"Mr Lupin, what's the problem?"

"Mr Potter, Professor. He's been cursed by someone" responded Remus.

"Is it bad?" Katja asked him.

"Yes. We don't know what hit him, but it looks to be a blood-draining curse of some sort. He's in Hospital Wing right now, Professor."

This description brought back a couple of memories from her Sixth Year, when Harry had cursed Malfoy in the bathroom. She dismissed the class.

She took out her wand, and hoped that Snape had already taken his nickname. Waving her wand in the appropriate manner, and then thought, "Accio Half-Blood Prince's Copy of Advanced Potion Making!" She waved her wand in the appropriate manor as she said this, and amazingly, the book and its owner came flying into the room. "Suche Sectumsempra!" she cried, pointing her wand at the book. The book immediately turned to the correct page, where she saw something that Harry had not—the countercurse.

They went up to the Hospital Wing, where Katja told Madame Pomfrey that she had additional information, so Madame Pomfrey let Katja go over to James. At James' side, she started the countercurse, Vulnera Sanentur. She did this three times, and then she started in with the Healing Spells that she knew. Soon, James' wounds were healing. Suddenly, James woke up. Remus asked whether he remembered what happened, to which James immediately sat up and made a spitting motion at the floor.

"It was Snivellus" replied James. "He hit me with that spell that he uses every once in a while, but it was more powerful than usual. Although, that might have been because the sneaking coward hit me behind my back."

"Shit!" yelled Katja disgusted. "That coward greasy bastard is in the Defence Room. He went in after I left. The Wards automatically came up, so he's stuck in there. Unfortunately, he can still mess things up. I need to do something quickly."

Behind her, Sirius nodded to James, motioning that he was going to go with her. They quickly got to the Defence Classroom, where Snape was still in the room, fuming. Katja gave him back his book, and then said, "Amnesia" pointing her wand at Snape's head. His eyes slid out of focus but slid back in quickly. She then said, "Stupor!" and Snape fell to the ground.

"What did you just do?" asked Sirius.

"First, I Modified his memory, and then I stunned him. We should take him out into the hall."

"Wow! You're scary! How do you know how to do that? And did you do that in German?"

"It was part of my training," replied Katja. "And yes, I am a multilingual castor."

"Not everyone can do that!" said Sirius in amazement at his girlfriend's skill and then he kissed her. That is a very good kiss, thought Katja. The kiss lasted a long time, as neither wanted to stop. After they tossed Snape into the hall, they went back up to the hospital wing where James was recovering. Then, Professor McGonagall came into the Hospital Wing, where she asked who had hurt James. When it was explained that Snape had done it, she went over to the Hospital Wing fireplace and shouted, "Horace!" A couple of seconds later, Slughorn's face appeared in the fireplace.

"What can I do for you, Minerva?" the head asked.

"Do you know what Severus Snape just did, Professor?"

"What did he do this time?"

"He attacked James Potter, Horace. I've got the memory to prove it."

"What punishment do you suggest? I'd say 25 points and a week's detention." said Slughorn.

"I'd say 75 points, and two weeks," replied Minerva. "If it wasn't for the quick actions of Ms. Wagner, he could be dead!"

"OK, 50 points and a two weeks," negotiated Horace.

"Agreed. The Headmaster will be hearing about this."

There was a pop and Horace's face disappeared from the fireplace. Then McGonagall turned to Katja. "How did you know how to counter that spell?" she asked.

"I've seen the effects before, and I knew exactly where to find the counter-curse."

"Very well, 50 points to Gryffindor for your impressive skill. By the way, you all are excused from classes for the afternoon if you wish although Katja, I'm sure that your Third Years would hate to miss your class today."

"Yes, professor. I think that Mr. Black and I will be okay. I will of course teach my Third Years later today."

Katja decided not to take Professor McGonagall on her offer, and decided to go to Defence that afternoon. Katja thought that she would take her up on potions, though. As Katja went into the Defence classroom for the class she was taking, Auror Williamson pulled her to the side. This was quite easy as, even in this time-frame, Katja was the first to class.

"Katja," Williamson said. "I hear that you are a Multicast. I was thinking that a demonstration might be useful to the class for today's lesson. I've got a couple of spiders and other small animals here in case you wish to use some spells on them. What do you think?"

"Well, Professor, not everyone can Multicast, but I will do my best to try. Do you want me to teach the class?"

"I assume that you know a lot about this type of thing?"

"Of course, sir." Reaching into her bag, which she had cast an Undetectable-Extension Charm and a Featherweight charm on, she pulled out her teaching robes and went to the girl's lavatory to put them back on. Then, she cast an Anti-Wrinkle spell on the robes, so that they looked like they just came out of the wash. She went back into the room, and took the second chair behind the professor's desk. Soon, the class had finished coming in. Professor Williamson got up and started to speak.

"I'm sure that you all know Ms. Katja Wagner" the professor said with a smile. "She will be talking to you today about Multicasts. You are to treat her with the same respect or more respect than you would give me." As he was saying "more respect," the Auror was looking over at the Slytherins with a knowing look. "She will have the power to dock points and hand out detentions as she always does. Ms. Katja Wagner!"

"Thank you, professor." Katja said. "Now can anyone tell me what a multicast is?"

Among the hands that went up, she saw Lily's, Sirius', and Snape's. She called on Lily. "Ms. Evans?"

"A multicast is someone who can cast spells in multiple languages. It is also said that some can combine spells so that they can cast multiple versions of the same spell."

"And why would this be helpful, Miss Evans?"

"Spells are countered most effectively in the language that they were cast in," Lily replied. "If rumours are true, the Dark Lord could easily use all sorts of unblockable spells just by using the Parseltounge that he is rumoured to be able to speak."

"Very good. 15 points to Gryffindor. Does anyone besides Miss Evans here know what languages English wizards tend to use?" Seeing Sirius' hand, she called on him. "Mr. Black?"

"Latin, Greek, and Aramaic" he replied.

"Another five points to Gryffindor. I will demonstrate a couple of spells on these spiders here, to show you that most spells used in England have counterparts in other languages. Grossissent!" At this, the spider grew in size. She then said, "What should I show first? Stupefy?" As the class nodded their approval, she pointed her wand at the spider and said, "Stupor!" and the spider fell over. "I may have accidentally used a little too much power on that one." She got another spider and demonstrated another spell. She went on for about fifteen minutes before she started to run out of spells. She told the class this.

"Although I know a lot about foreign magic, I am down to about three more spells. The use of these three spells is Forbidden on another human being. Any such use is a one way ticket to the local Wizarding Prison, unless authorised by the government. For a brief time where I come from, these curses were not illegal, but I never have actually used them. If you do not want to see these in action, I suggest you leave now."

She waited a moment to see if anyone would leave, but when no one was moving towards the door, she looked at the spider, and aiming her wand at the creature said, "Commande!" Immediately, the spider started doing what she wanted it to do. "Just like our Unforgivables,you really have to mean them. I'm sure that everyone can identify the counterpart for this curse."

The whole class shouted that it was the Imperious curse, which she agreed with. She let up the spell, forced a face of deep revulsion, and shouted, "Douleur". The spider started to shriek in agony. Everyone realised exactly what spell it was. "The Cruciatus curse. Not very pleasant at all. Now for the spell to rule them all, the one most commonly referred to as an acronym, I present the DLA also known as the AK." She pointed her wand at the spider again and said, "Détruisez l'âme!" The effect was immediate. The spider fell dead in a flash of green light. "The French really outdid themselves on that one. They even got the colour of the spell right. Now, I'm afraid that you will need to take notes for the rest of class, so I'll give you a minute to take out your quills and parchment." She gave them a minute before continuing on.

"There are some spells that only multicasts can do. For example, the Dark Shield spell can only be accessed by a spell in at least two languages. I'll show you. Mr. Black, I need a volunteer for a demonstration." As Sirius came up, she told the class that she was giving permission for Sirius to use any non-Unforgivable curse against her.

"Sectumsempra!" shouted Sirius. Katja, in the brief moment that she looked around the room noted that Snape was looking particularly foul.

"SchwarzeZwart schilde!" Katja intoned. A dark shield erupted from her wand and the curse just bounced off, ricochetting into the wall. "Thank you Mr Black, Five points to Gryffindor. I've heard that it can withstand even more powerful curses, but as my knowledge of the shield was mostly theoretical, I didn't want to test it."

Someone from the Slytherin side of the classroom, Snape and Malfoy she noticed, said, "We'd be more than happy to help you test it, Professor." The boys made an identical sudden slashing movement with their wands, and a second before she saw the light of the curse, she knew that it was the same curse that had been used against her in the Ministry in her Fifth Year, when she was battling Dolohov. Quickly, she put up her shield again and then muttered, "Dākushīrudo, Plus Grand Protéger!"

The shield was quickly reinforced, and once again, the spell was deflected, although Katja did feel a hint of the spell. "Let's see, Messrs Malfoy and Snape, I think that you both added another week of Detention with McGonagall or Williamson and 100 points each from Slytherin. The Headmaster and Professor Slughorn will hear about this." she said this in a cold tone.

If anyone from the future would have been there, they would have known that Katja was mere moments away from loosing all sense of control. Professor Williamson seemed to notice, and dismissed the boys to the headmaster's office, while he went into his office to Floo Slughorn. Katja continued to lecture about the ability to use multiple languages. She said that first, you had to imagine the result of the spell, similar to a non-verbal spell. Then, just like any other spell, you had to say the incantation and put just enough power into the spell to achieve the desired result. "After casting those Unforgivables and that Shield, especially the second one," Katja said, "I'm pretty worn out. It takes a lot of power to use that type of magic."

She then referred back to the beginning of class, when Lily had mentioned multiple spells. "Most wizards cannot use multiple spells at the same time, but any decent Spellsmith can combine two spells for more power. Some Spellsmiths even today create their own spells. Although, it is not necessary to be a smith in order to create spells." She then shouted, "Entwaffnen!" at Remus, and then said, "Sorry, Mr Lupin, but this demonstration won't work with a non-functional wand, which is what it would be if I just asked you. Pettigrew, Black, please come here."

The boys went to the front of the room, where she said that they were to attack her, and that she would use the two wands to stun them. The students got into position. They each said, "Expelliarmus!" but mere milliseconds before they said their spell, Katja yelled, "Stupor! Stupefy!" A jet of red light hit each of the boys and they collapsed. She yelled "Schildzauber!" and the shield redirected the Disarming Jinxes. Pointing the wands at the boys, she said "Tarmoa!" and tossed Remus his wand back. It was now towards the end of the class, so she set them an essay due next class about the advantages of Casting in Multiple Languages.

She decided to follow her earlier decision and skip Potions for once, going with Lily up to the Hospital Wing to see James. After staying a while, she went to go teach her Third-Years. It would be very interesting to see what the students had come up with on their homework.

Katja brought the class to order. "I'd like your homework now. If you wish to reveal the identity of the werewolf/werewolves at the school, please put it on your paper. Then, bring your papers to me. After I collect the papers, anyone handing in the essay late will be docked 10 per cent and will loose the opportunity of extra credit." At this, there was furious writing as some of the students tried to put down their thoughts on their parchment. Then the students brought up their essays.

"Any more? Good. Anyone have the name of the werewolf/werewolves at the school?" A nervous Hufflepuff raised her hand, "Yes?"

"You, professor. You are a werewolf."

"Good. Five points to Hufflepuff. Yes, I am a werewolf, but I am perfectly safe as long as I am not near the school at the full moon. What gave it away?"

"You seemed to have all of the symptoms of a werewolf on Tuesday, which was the full moon. And I just happened to see you walk out the front door going towards the forest. Remus Lupin, Seventh Year Gryffindor is the other one, I think." the same girl said.

"Take another five points. Now, there will be a quiz on Tuesday that will comprise a large portion of your final grade in this class. Similar to some Muggle schools, I am weighting the grades, with Homework counting for 25 percent of the grade, Quizzes counting for another 25% and the two Major Exams will count for the rest of the grade. You will need to know everything since the beginning of term. Today, we will go over Runespoors. Can anyone tell me what a Runespoor is?"

She looked around and saw that the only hand up was the Hufflepuff's. "No-one can tell me what a Runespoor is? A Runespoor is a type of serpent with three heads. Can anyone tell me why they think I am talking about Runespoors in a DADA class?" She called on a Gryffindor. "Yes, Ms. O'Brien?"

"Since the Dark Lord is a Parselmouth, he can talk to all kinds of snakes."

"Yes, but that is not the only reason we are talking about them. By definition, these creatures were Designed by Dark Wizards, and therefore, are considered Dark themselves." She noticed that some of the students weren't paying attention. "Five points from everyone who wasn't paying attention. If I catch you again, it will be detention with Professor McGonagall or Professor Williamson! Apparently, there are some students at this school who think that they don't need to pay attention!"

Katja hated when she had to sound like her professors from her day, but sometimes, it was the only thing that worked. Soon class was over. She assigned the ones who had not been paying attention 2 rolls of parchment on Runespoors, while the five that had been paying attention only got 1 roll of parchment. "I hope these are better than the ones on Kappas. Only one person got an Outstanding. One person got a High Exceeds Expectations, two got lower Es, and five of you got As on your homework. The rest of you failed, because you didn't read properly, or listen to instructions properly. Miss Brown, please wait a moment."

The Hufflepuff looked worried. "You don't need to be worried," said Katja when it was just Williamson, her, and the Hufflepuff. "In fact, Miss Brown, you are the one who got the O on the paper. You seem to be a lot like me when I was your age. I always wanted to be the first with answers, the best of the best, but I never gave anyone else the chance to answer questions and I only had a couple of friends, who saw me not as a know-it-all, but as a good person. I am very proud of how well you are doing in my class, and if you ever need help, don't be too proud to ask for it, please? That's what one of my friends' problems was. He never asked for help. Oh, here is your paper. 99 out of 100. I only managed a 98 when I took Creature Defence."

Katja then asked if a girl named Annie was her sister. The Hufflepuff, whose name turned out to be Sarah, said that, yes she was. "Your sister is doing a good job in my Defence I class, too. Hopefully, when I become a full professor, I will meet more girls like you and your sister."

Just then, Professor McGonagall came into the room with a worried look on her face. "Ms. Wagner," she said. "The Headmaster would like to see you immediately. He says that he has something that he needs to tell you."