Harry Weasley
Chapter Thirty Eight: Binding the Curses
"So what do you think today's class is going to be about Ron?" Harry was talking to his brother one morning about their next DADA class. They were told to expect an interesting surprise this day. They weren't sure about what to expect from this strange Professor and what was going to go on today.
"Harry, don't worry. I don't think that he would do anything that would truly endanger the students. Now on to what I think is going to be going on today, I don't know. Hopefully he won't try something like the pixie incident again." Ron wasn't acting like it, but he was also nervous.
After breakfast that day, they went down to their first class of the day, which happened to be the aforementioned DADA class. The seven friends walked into class, and took their seats among the different areas of the room. When they were all seated, the professor made his way into the classroom. "Good morning class. I hope you are all ready for a day of surprises. Now if you all would settle down, we will get started." Professor Lockhart sounded like he knew what he was talking about, so the class calmed down rather quickly.
"Excuse me Professor, but what are we going to be doing today?" Hermoine was as always one to get to the point. She wasn't being rude or contradictory, she was just being curious.
"Excellent question Ms. Granger, I was just about to get into that question. Now today we will be discussing the different uses of the Binding Spell. It is used to bind evil Creatures and spells to the spot that they are cast from. Now can anyone tell me what is a good way to use this in a battle." Professor Lockhart looked out over the classroom of anxious faces, and pointed to Hermoine, who happened to be one of two or three that had their hands raised. He was happy that there was at least one that could answer the question. "Yes Ms. Granger, you have an answer for my question?"
"Yes Professor. A few good ways to use this spell in battle is to use the spell against a Banshee to keep her from her screaming which would hurt the victims." Hermoine was proud of her knowledge, and was sure that she was right.
"Very good Ms. Granger, that is correct. Ten points to Gryffindor. Now how about you Mr. Malfoy, do you have any ideas?" He had turned to the Slytherin blonde boy as he asked him.
"Yes professor, there is one spell that I know that it can't be used against, which is to bad because if it was able to be used, then it would have saved quite a few lives. The aforementioned spell is Avada Kadabra, or the killing curse. The Binding spell can be used on the other two Unforgivable's, but just doesn't work on the killing curse because it's just to powerful." Draco looked at his professor with a bit of sadness in his eyes. He knew what he was talking about, for he had heard stories about what Voldemort's first reign was like, and that people had tried to use the binding spell to block it.
"Thank you Mr. Malfoy, you are correct in saying that it can't block the killing curse. Ten points to Slytherin for the use of it to block the unforgivable's and another ten points for the lesson on it's uselessness in blocking the killing curse." He had looked over the class, and there wasn't any objections for his giving extra point to the Slytherin house for once. He was proud of this class, and he thought that they would definitely be able to confront whatever may come their way trouble wise.
The rest of the class went rather uneventfully except when they tried to get Neville to cast the spell. He went and did pretty well with the spell, except when he said one of the words, he accidentally mispronounced it, and the binding spell, was now a bouncing spell. He went on around the class bouncing off the walls, and off of the different students. Professor Lockhart, to his own amazement, thought that he was doing something good, and tried to counter the spell that Neville cast. When he did, Neville was really bouncing around now, and he hit the ground hard. He had broken his arm in three places, and was sent to the hospital wing where he spent the rest of the day healing up.
"Now class, that goes to show that with the mispronouncing of one word will do with a spell. Can anyone tell me what the one word was that Mr. Longbottom mispronounced?" He looked around the room, and caught the eye of Harry. "Yes Mr. Weasley, do you know that answer?"
"Yes sir, I think that the word he mispronounced was 'Grondium' where he should have said, 'Gramdom'. You see with the first pronouncement, it's bouncing, and the second it's binding." Harry was proud that he had known the answer, and the professor was smiling his winning smile.
"Very good Mr. Weasley, that will be twenty points to Gryffindor for the answer. Well it looks like class is almost over, so I will let you go early today. Class dismissed." With that all the students packed up their bags, and made their way to their next class, which for them happened to be Potions. They were all talking as they made their way down to the Dungeon for the class.