Black & White
by Lunatic
Chapter 3 – First Defense Class
Nervously the 6th year students from Gryffindor sat down in the DADA classroom. The Slytherins where already there, curious about what kind of lessons they would get from their Head of the House's sister. Beside the fact it was a Snape teaching, the entire classroom was also curious about how this year DADA would go. It was common knowledge that the DADA job was cursed and that only people who where very foolish or very brave would take it.
Some things had changed with the 6th year and of course that was because of the OWLS they had taken at the end of last year. Nobody was really surprised that Hermoine Granger had passed the OWLS as the most brilliant student in the last century, but there had happened other 'miracles' as well. Harry for instance could continue to learn for an Auror, although he suspected that the Headmaster must had threatened Snape to give him a higher mark for his work. They had all chosen their own subjects, but everyone needed to take DADA, simply because of the threat from the new arisen Dark Lord.
Noise started to grow in the classroom. The official lesson had started 5 minutes ago, but there was no sign of the female Snape yet. Draco Malfoy grinned evilly at Harry, while whispering something in Crabbe's ear, who laughed out loud. Harry had the strange feeling that he didn't really want to know where this whispering was about. Two minutes later the doors opened and in almost ran their new DADA teacher.
Elvira had her long white hair hanging as if she didn't had time to put her hair in a knot and she gave the class an apologetic grin.
"Sorry class! I still have to get used to get up early."
The noise had died down and every student was now staring and their new Professor. She simply ignored that fact, as if she was used to it, and sat down on her desk, putting a heavy book on her lab.
"I shall start by saying that you better call me Professor Elvira, 'cause two Snape's would probably get confusing and I certainly not want to get confused with that ugly brother of mine."
Ron's mouth hangs open in disbelieve and he was gaping at Elvira. Hermoine gave him an annoyed look and tried to attract his attention, which was no use at all. Harry only grinned, because he really could imagine what his best friend was thinking at the moment.
"Remus wrote me in a letter (this time it was Harry's time to gape at the Professor. 'Did she knew Remus?' he wondered) that you guys had already a lot of troubles with the DADA lessons, so I'm just going to try to see if I can let you all forget that disastrous year with that Umbridge woman." Some students still shivered at the memory, including Harry.
"I thought I start this first lesson with an easy, but useful charm. I need an assistant for this… let's see…" her eyes dwelled over the students in front of her and stopped at the sight of a gaping red head. "Mister Weasley," she said with a smile, "would you please come forward to me?"
With a terrified look at his two friends Ron walked towards Elvira.
"I want you to take out your wand and when I throw a curse at you I want you to say 'Peralo Tantalus' while weaving your wand. Can you repeat that spell to me, mister Weasley?"
With a shivering voice Ron repeated it a couple of times, until Elvira was convinced he would say it the right way.
"I'm going to use a very bad curse towards you, mister Weasley, but don't be afraid. If you say the spell right, nothing will happens to you, okay? Elvira gave him an encouraging smile, while Ron started to look even more terrified.
"Ready?"
Ron could only nod his head.
Elvira smiled again at him and then took out her wand, pointing it at her red headed 'victim'.
"Crucio!" she said with a steady voice, while the entire class gasped.
"PERALO TANTALUS!" Ron yelled with his eyes close, suspecting to be hit by the Unforgivable spell every second, but nothing happened. He only felt a small wave of air hitting him, but that was it. While he carefully opened one eye he saw how the entire class was staring at him… and their new DADA Professor.
Elvira was still standing, but it looked as if electricity was running through her body. Ice blue lights were coming from her fingers and were running through her hair. Without realising he did it, Ron takes a step forward as if he wanted to help his Professor, but with a weave of her hand she stopped. Elvira muttered something under her breath and the lights stopped. Taking a deep breath she turns to Ron and gives him a small smile. "That is going to be 10 points to Gryffindor, mister Weasley. You can sit down now."
Totally confused Ron walks back to his usual spot between Harry and Hermoine. The students are so confused by what just happened in front of their eyes that they don't even realise that 'a Snape' has just given Gryffindor 10 points.
Elvira sits down again on her desk and closes her eyes for a brief second.
"First of all… if I ever catch any of you using the Cruciatus Curse than I'm going to make damn sure that you are going to be expelled in the least! And be absolutely sure that I will know!"
The class is dead silent.
"I want you all to take down these notes for me…" there is a couple of seconds some noise from students who are gathering their stuff together and then Elvira continues.
"The Peralo Tantalus spell is some sort of counter spell for the Cruciatus Curse. Unfortunately it's most of the time useless, simply because Unforgivables are mostly used by servants of Voldemort (the class gasps by the mentioning of His name, but Elvira ignores it) and they now another spell that can simply overthrow the Peralo. However, it can still be useful, simply because even the most loyal Death Eater is able to forget to use that spell sometimes. What happens is this. Somebody throws the Cruciatus, but the power of this curse is coming back to that person by the Peralo. That was the reason why I was shivering and why it looked like electricity was running through my body. It doesn't hurt as much as the Cruciatus, but it hurts enough to get away when needed."
On that moment the sound of the bell is heard in the classroom and the students start to move to get their stuff together.
"I want that you all will start a research about why I had this blue light in my hair and around my hands. Class dismissed!"
And with that the first 6th year DADA lesson ends.
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