Chapter 4

Alastor Moody sat behind the small desk placed in the far end of the dueling room. His magical eye scanned the room for something unusual and his normal

eye read a file. The file belonged to Demonita Lillian Potter.

He was impressed with the young woman. It had been a long time since he had seen such good scores in DADA at an OWL test. She had done all the tasks without

any mistakes what so ever. She had conjured a patronus with ease and won against the examiner in a duel.

He came to a handwritten note written by Fileus Flitwick, Ravenclaws Head of house.

Miss Potter has a wonderful nature and is popular in the lower classes. You will often find her in the common room or the library, helping first years with

their homework. It seems that she is a natural teacher, and a natural leader. She is also one of the few students who makes friends in other houses...

The note went on in pretty much the same way, but Alastor stopped reading when he heard a loud knock on the door.

"Come in!"

The door opened and two persons walked in. The first one was a tall black-haired man with glasses. He gave him a smile. Alastors eyes widened. The other

was a rather tiny girl. She was a replica of her mother, except for the hair. She had her mothers face, body and eyes. Her hair was black, and was gathered

in a bun.

"So this is your daughter, Potter." His wooden leg thumped against the floor when he walked to the pair. He looked at the girl. "Mr. Moody, It's nice to

meet you, dad has spoken well of you." Alastor turned to James.

"Indeed." James gave him a big smile before he gave her daughter a pet on her shoulder. "I will pick you up later then." She looked annoyed at him. "I'm capable

of finding my own way home, thank you very much."

Alastor was amused about the way the girl told her father off, but interfered before James could reply.

"I will take her home after the test." James gave him an unsure look but nodded after a few moments. "Ok, if it's not too much trouble..." Alastor cut him

off.

"I assure you Potter, it's quite fine." James nodded and left.

Alastor motioned for Demonita to follow him. "So, I'm going to test your skills in the Defense against the dark arts in three ways. The first will be a duel.

The other a hand to hand combat test and the last one a written test. I don't know how long this will take, it depends on you." The girl nodded.

"Okay, jump up on the platform and let us begin then."

Nita stood at the platform opposite Moody, her wand in hand. She bowed and he did the same, and the duel began.

She dodged when the disarming spell flew past her and threw the same hex at Moody, who stepped out of the way. They tested each other at the beginning

to see where the opponents weakness was. Nita discovered that Moody was an excellent dueler and so far she could not find any weak spots. His wooden leg

didn't seem to be a hinder, which bewildered her. She threw up a shield when a new nasty curse came towards her at such a speed that she was afraid that

she had been too late.

After a half-hour the curses became rather nasty. Alastor was impressed with the girl, or rather young woman in front of him. She moved in no time from

one side to another with grace.

"Confundo!" Alastor shouted and a stream of yellow light came out of his wand. Demonita threw up a shield and started to run towards him, which puzzled

him.

"Flagrate!" She started to draw lines in the floor, and the lines filled with fire. soon she had surrounded him. Moody cursed, she had caught him off guard

with that one. He froze the fire and shouted out the Trip hex.

Nita didn't see the hex coming so she got hit and fell over. She could hear Moody shout out a hex she hadn't heard before and rolled out of the way. She

jumped up again and conjured a snake. The snake tried to attack Moody, but he pointed the wand at the animal and threw the snake in the air and it vanished.

Nita tried to hit him with the bone-braker curse but missed. She started to get tired, but didn't show this to her opponent. Moody looked tired also, and

when he raised his wand again she gathered her powers and cried: "Stupefy!" and at the same time, Moody threw the disarming spell.

Nita flew through the air and smashed against the wall. She groaned. She had hit her head on the wall, and would receive a headache. She tried to stand up

but fell back on the floor. She waited to hear any sound from her opponent, but to her surprise nothing happened.

She looked around and saw a bundle on the floor not too far from her. "Oh god." She crawled over to the man and looked him over. Her hex had paralyzed him,

and she searched for her wand, and found it against the wall.

"Enervate" she spoke softly and Moody started to move. He turned around and looked at her. "Nicely done, girl." He came to his feet and helped her up. "Here,

drink this, it will make the headache go away." She smiled thankfully at him and drank out of the bottle.

"Thanks." She handed the empty vial to him and brushed off her clothes.

"That was excellent, Ms Potter. It has been a long time since I had a good duel, and this was the first class. Did you find any of my weaknesses?"

"No, I didn't."

"Did you ever think about my leg?" Nita wondered what he meant with that, and after a while she groaned. "No sir, but I understand now." She could have targeted

his wooden leg!

"So, now over to Hand to Hand combat."