"That's the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher," Harry explained to me and pointed at a guy with many scars and to be honest –he looked really scary and not that friendly to me.

"Don't worry," said Harry, when he saw the expression planted on my face, "He's not going to harm anyone and besides, he's really friendly."

"Oh," I said sounding a bit brave.

"He's actually really exciting and full of new things. He might get creepy and he might seem creepy to you at first but everyone likes him –except Malfoy of course," Harry said.

"Malfoy?" I asked.

"Harry's and our archenemy," Ron butted in.

"I see," I said nodding my head.

"He's really hard not to miss. I mean after all, he's that blonde kid with a bad attitude," Hermione said.

I laughed at this.

"I'll probably notice him sooner or later since you gave me a i very /i obvious description," I said in a sarcastic voice.

They laughed but then we became silent.

It's not that we didn't want to talk anymore but because the "new" teacher had decided to finally talk.

"Thank you for quieting down class," he said, "for the new student, my name is Professor Moody."

Moody sounded like a strange name to me but I didn't dare to say that out loud.

I would definitely be in big trouble.

"Today we'll be learning about the 3 unforgivable curses," he continued, "Does anyone know why they are unforgivable and name one?"

I saw a few people raised their hand.

"Ron?" he called.

"Because it's forbidden and does terrible things. One of them is the Imperius curse," Ron said.

"Yes, your father must know all about that since he's works in the ministry," Professor Moody said.

He took out a spider from the jar.

He put it out and took his wand and yelled, "Imperio!"

It automatically started tap dancing and doing all kinds of silly things.

Everyone started laughing but me.

I saw and knew that it was being control from it's won freewill.

"Stop doing that!" I yelled can't taking it anymore.
"Ah Miss Woods –I bet you know what this curse does," he said calmly.

"Yes, it controls people –or any living things," I said.

"Correct and 5 points for Gryffindor," he said.

I was kind of embarrassed for shouting out loud but I couldn't help it but be sorry.

I thought having—and knowing—magic would be great but if there was so many bad things about magic, I'd rather not had it at all.

"Who here knows another unforgivable curse?" he asked.

Two hands rose in the air.

Hermione's and Neville's.

I wasn't surprised that Hermione.

Even though I've only known her for a day, I knew that she read a lot and was probably the smartest one in her year.

But Moody picked Neville instead.

"The Cruciatus Curse," he said in a small but distinct voice.

"Okay. I'm just going to have to make the spider a bit bigger to show you what the Cruciatus curse is like," he said and took out a third spider.

I looked at Ron and saw that he was ready to puke.

"Engorgio!" he yelled and the spider got a lot bigger.

I saw Ron backing away from the spider.

"Crucio!" he yelled and pointed his wand at the spider.

The spider looked like it was in pain and wanted to die right this moment.

I felt sorry for all the spiders that were in the jar.

The spider looked like it was trying to let the pain die down or try to stop it somehow by wrapping his legs around it self or rolling on the floor.

Neville looked as if he wanted to cry.

"Stop!" Hermione exclaimed, "Look how it's affecting Neville!"

Now it was Hermione's turn to yell stop.

"Okay maybe we should move on now," Professor Moody said and took out the third spider.

"Now for the third curse . . ." he said.

Hermione raised her hand.

He picked on her and waited for an answer.

Finally he got one but it was in a voice no more than a whisper.

"Avada Kedavra," Hermione said looking down as if she was about to cry.

"Oh yes remember –the killing curse," he said raising his wand.

He looked at the spider and said, "Avada Kedavra!"

It immediately fell and made no more move.

It couldn't anyway.

I looked away as I saw the head popped off and landed on someone's desk nearby.

"There's no counter curse and no one's been able to survive it but one person and he's sitting right in front of me at this moment," Professor Moody said and looked at Harry with both his eye.

I saw Harry go red.

Wow, I didn't know Harry had survived a killing curse that no one had survived.

So no wonder girls looked at him with awe and giggles.

Finally class was over and everyone rushed out excitedly.

Except for Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Neville and me.

Neville looked like someone close to him had just died.

I wondered what was wrong with him.

As for Ron, I already knew his greatest fears –spiders.

Hermione was trying to calm him down.

I thought it was a bit funny –Ron, that is.

Then as we were going down I heard someone's voice –Moody's.

"Out of my way," he growled as he came quickly down the stairs.

He went quickly past me and to Neville.

"Come with me boy, I think there's something that can cheer you up," he said to Neville and they went up.

It was raining outside as usual.

"What's wrong with Neville?" I asked them finally.

"Dunno," Harry shrugged.

"After all these years we've been with him –he's still a mysterious person to us," Hermione said.

"Does –well does he have any close friends?" I asked.

"I guess you can say we're nearly close," Hermione replied.

I nodded sadly.

I felt bad for Neville.

Hermione had told me before that Neville lived with his grandmother and didn't know what happened to his parents.

I wish I could help him somehow.

Anyways the next class was Divination.

Hermione didn't come so she had a free period.

She told us that she was going to do her homework.

I thought that was a waste of free period.

She obviously didn't agreed.