The Dueling Club
"Today is the first dueling club at six o'clock." Moody grunted at the beginning of Monday's class. "I am recommending all you go for it will be good training. All right then, today when you try to fight off the Unforgivables I want you all to focus the back of your mind to the front. You want to be able to feel the energy of yourself in order to be able to fight off any of these curses. Alright, Finnegan, you first."
Seamus stepped up from his seat and made his way to the front of the room.
"Now I want you all to focus in on the way his eyes look. That's where you can see the mind working against these curses. Crucio!"
Seamus collapsed on the floor and started to twitch.
"He isn't trying! Come on Seamus keep a common sense of mind! Fight me off!" Moody yelled at the twitching body on the ground, and yet Seamus made no move of action to try and fight off the curse. Moody finally lifted it with anger in his eyes.
"Finnegan! What was that! You weren't even trying to fight me off! Ahh, Potter get up here and show him how this is done." Moody growled as his eyes darted to the back of the room where Dumbledore sat watching.
Harry got up almost regrettingly and walked to the front of the classroom. He looked to face Moody.
"Now Potter show these amateurs how you fight off an Unforgivable. Crucio!"
Harry started to collapse when he could feel himself twitching against Moody's power. Harry started to get himself back up with a horrible pain running throughout his head. He got up and, still twitching lightly turned to face Moody.
"Now this is what I'm talking about! Did you see him fight against it? He got up did he not? He turned his eyes on me! Great now lets do… Imperio!"
Harry could hear a voice saying…
Do a back flip…
"NO!" Harry shouted as he tried to keep his feet firmly planted on the ground.
Throw my desk aside…
"NO!" Harry shouted again as he could feel his feet slowly move forward.
Come on, almost there, just throw it aside…
"N-No…" Harry tried to hold back as he could feel his hands start to stretch forward. "NO!" Harry shouted again more firmly and could feel his hands snap back against his sides as he started to back away from the desk.
Harry could then feel the strong energy trying to lead him to doing things being lifted from him.
"Good job lad, now see what he did? You have to try and fight off these curses; if you have a strong mind then you should be able to do this no problem. Good job Harry sit down." And Moody let Harry back to his seat.
"Alright Finnegan want to give it another try?" Moody asked the unsure Seamus who got back up from his seat and made his way to the front of the class. He turned to face Moody and look terrified for what he knew was going to happen next. "Now fight me off Finnegan. Crucio!"
Seamus once again fell on the ground and began to twitch. His body wasn't showing any sign of fighting against the curse. Moody noticed because he lifted the curse off looking extremely mad.
"What was that? Fight me! You didn't even try! Maybe you can do better with this one! Imperio!"
Seamus's eyes flickered as he was hit with the curse. Moody shouted,
"Do a triple back flip!" Seamus did as he was told. "Punch your stupid head!" Once again Seamus followed Moody's command. "Chop your table in half with your hand." Seamus made for his round table where Neville was sitting frightened as to how Seamus was reacting.
Seamus raised his hand and just as he was about to touch the table with it he jumped back and screamed "NO!"
Moody was taken by surprise for Seamus hadn't shown any sign that he had a present mind while doing all of these ridiculous commands. Seamus shouted out once again, "NO!" now with more confidence. Harry could see Seamus's eyes rolling back into focus as they continued to shake violently to do so.
Seamus took three steps toward Moody looking as though he was taking much effort to do so. Then Seamus collapsed as Moody lifted his wand and the curse.
"Good job Finnegan, now that's what I'm talking about." Moody grabbed a little potion from his desk as he went over to Seamus and trickled a couple drops down his throat. Seamus got up and sat back down at his seat.
"Well that's all the time we have today, but tomorrow I hope to have two new victims fight off these curses. And don't forget to go to the dueling club tonight at six o'clock in the Great Hall." Moody dismissed his class.
"Interesting class." Jenna smiled.
"Yeah, are you going to go to the dueling club tonight?" Harry asked her as he started to pick up his books.
"I want to. We should do something after." Jenna suggested.
"Yeah." Harry smiled recalling Hogsmeade. Harry looked back to see Hannah and Ron talking and Hermione bustling her way out of the room.
"What's wrong with Hermione?" Jenna wondered.
"Dunno." Harry shrugged as he indicated for Jenna to follow him out the door.
"Get out of my classroom! This isn't a couples room!" Moody shouted as he made his way to Dumbledore who was at the back of the room.
Harry shot a look at Dumbledore and then smiled down at the floor as he held open the door for Jenna.
"Moody has been taking things really seriously lately." Jenna noticed.
"Yeah well, this stuff is really important, you know. Even though most of us would probably not even have the chance to say a word before we were killed if we came across a death eater or Voldemort himself." Harry explained.
"And by most people, you mean everyone but you."
"No! I was so lucky to get out, if it weren't for my parents I would be dead right now, and Sirius… But Hermione, Ron, Neville, and Luna also survived from the death eaters attack." Harry told Jenna. "It's just, so many people are clueless as to how much power these people have, Moody is going really easy on the class. Well he might not be because he doesn't really want to cause pain, well except to Seamus at the time…" Harry joked. "But the power he's using in his curses are nothing compared to a curse from a death eater, or Voldemort."
"Well obviously. Harry, has anyone told you, you talk too much?" Jenna asked him as Harry. Harry then looked up and down the halls to make sure no one was around before he bent in and kissed Jenna.
"No," he answered her; "I'll see you tonight." Harry smiled as he headed in the opposite direction from Jenna for his Transfiguration class.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts will help you defend yourself, but it doesn't teach you how to fight. Here, here is where all of the skills you will form for fighting ability for you cannot defend yourself forever, you need to attack. Serveus will be assisting me." Moody grunted to the different ages of students surrounding the only house table that was kept on the ground. Snape came out and stepped on the table to join Moody, daggers in his eyes. Snape had always wanted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, and for yet another year he had failed to be it.
Harry scar seared with pain at the sight of Snape.
"First we will show you how to begin a proper duel." Moody told the class. "First you bow to your opponent."
Harry recalled in his fourth year when Voldemort and him began their duel like this. Harry refused to bow to Voldemort, but Voldemort used a spell to make him bow to him…
"We bow for it is just the way of showing respect for the other." Moody told the students as he and Snape bent their backs down but still kept their heads up, just like Voldemort had done. "Then you turn around and walk three steps in the other direction and turn to face your opponent." Moody and Snape both took three steps from the other and then turned to face each other.
"Now for the disarming spell." Moody raised his wand and shouted, "Expelliarmus!" Snape's wand went flying out of his hand. "See, now you would have time to attack your opponent for they are defenseless." Moody explained.
"Now a good way to slow your opponent down severely, is by putting a spell on them that makes them move ten times as slow as normal. Like so," Snape retrieved his wand and started toward Moody as Moody shouted, "Stupefy!" Snape's foot that was in midair moved so slow it was as if you were watching a tape in slow motion. "Now this spell would be good incase you had to run away for you had no chance of winning."
Moody then used another wave of his wand and Snape's motion went back to normal. "Now for a levitating spell that most of you already know, this spell will levitate your opponent's wand so that it is out of reach of him retrieving it. Although most of you will have no time to use this spell for your opponent will surely have attacked you by now… but anyways we must teach it to you." Snape once again went toward Moody with so much hate in his eyes that he looked like he could have killed. "Wingardium Leviosa!" Snape's wand flew high up in the air out of his reach. "Now you have time to either attack your opponent or run." Moody continued as he lowered Snape's wand back down to him.
"Alright now lets have some of our older kids come up here and try these out." Moody scanned the crowd. "Potter, and Granger." Harry and Hermione both looked at each other. Hermione's bad mood seemed to have lightened a little. They both stepped up onto the table to face each other.
"Alright now bow to each other." Moody said as he stepped off the table, Snape joining him.
"This should be interesting." Snape smiled, and he slicked his greasy hair back accenting his abnormally large nose.
Harry and Hermione bowed to each other keeping their heads up as Moody and Snape had done. Hermione had the look of mild terror in her eyes as she turned around and took three steps away from Harry. Harry turned around and took three steps away from Hermione. He turned to face her one more as he raised his wand. And shouted out,
"Expelliarmus!" Hermione's wand went flying out of her hand. She looked a bit angry now as she went and retrieved it and shouted,
"Stupefy!" Harry felt like gravity had increased and he felt he was being pulled to the floor with huge waits holding him down. He managed to raise his wand, slowly and within ten seconds he felt his speed had come back.
"Rictusempra!" Hermione collapsed on the table with uncontrollable fits of laughter. She started to raise her wand at Harry but—"Stupefy!" Hermione was now laughing very slowly and sounded very deep.
"Good job Potter." Moody grunted as he lifted the curses on Hermione and started back on the table.
"Tarentallegra!" Hermione shouted at Harry. Harry's feet began to jump all over the place in a dancing form.
"Hemenefistestia!" Harry shouted, as his feet couldn't stop moving. Hermione then started to spin around like crazy and her wand flew out of her hand.
"Alright that's enough." Moody shouted, "Expelliarmus!" Harry's and Hermione's wands both flew to Moody. Moody then lifted both curses. Hermione tried to walk, but she was too dizzy to even know where she was. She ended up taking steps all over the place and tripped over her own feet. Harry was a little unstable himself for his legs were a little unsteady from all that dancing. He tried to catch his breath as Moody made his way in-between the two.
"It seems to me that there is some unsettled anger between you two that you need to sort out." Moody growled. "Now they used some curses that some of you know and others don't. A tickling spell, a dancing spell, and a dizziness spell. Now everyone get a partner and try out the spells that we demonstrated." The rest of the students got with a person and spread themselves out and Harry could see curses being shouted at one another. "And you two!" Moody shouted as his magical eye was going crazy. "What was that? I put you two up cause I thought you could do this without trying to hurt the other person. Explain yourselves."
Harry just breathed heavily and started at Hermione who stared at him with disgust in her eyes. Harry finally muttered out, "Ask her." As he pointed a finger to Hermione.
"Me? Me? What did I do! I was just defending myself and cursing you in the process. Put me up against him do you! He's been up against Voldemort what chance do I have? I look like a fool against him!" Hermione shouted.
"Hermione! How could you say that! You've had tons of experience before! You've just been in a bad mood lately and I don't know what it is but you should cut it out. This isn't the Hermione I know." Harry shouted back.
Hermione looked Harry up and down and ran out of the Great Hall with her face in her hands.
"Look what you did to her lad." Moody grunted as his magical eye was undoubtedly following Hermione through the other side of the wall.
"Girls…" Harry breathed out in anger.
"Give her time."
"Give HER time? I've been through more than she has ever! Why should I give HER time?" Harry shouted angrily as a wand flew up and hit him. He grabbed the wand and chucked it on the floor.
"I told you this would be interesting." Snape now joined Moody and Harry's argument with the look of hate that Snape saved for Harry with his eyes fixated on him.
"I'm out," Harry grunted as he went up to Moody and grabbed both his and Hermione's wands.
Author's note: Hey sorry this chappie took SOOO long, but I haven't been having too much time to write, CHRISTMAS! But I promise over Christmas break I'll update nice lengthy chappies. Please continue to read, and thanks so much for those reviews. Yea but next chappie Harry finds out what is up Hermione's ass lately! Hehe wonder what it is?? Well we'll see next chappie, and yea, Christmas is also coming up for Harry, and he has a Quidditch match coming up! Against who? Hmm…. Prolly against either Slytherin, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw, but I don't know. Hehe. Ne ways stay tuned AND REVIEW!! Enjoy!