Chapter Seventeen:

Unforgivables

Two days later and most of the school, thought the same thing, that defense against the dark arts class was by far their favorite though there were a select few that disagreed.

The marauders were completely and utterly shocked to find that their professor was a prankster and even more so that he basically let there detention slip out the door, so by starting the day with two detentions they ended with none, and were quite glad.

They were also happy to say that they had discovered a few things about their professors and kept a verbal list of them.

he and Draco were not always friends

Ginny was the younger sister of Harry's best friends.

Both Harry and Ginny seemed to have eyes set on each other though neither seemed to want to admit it, therefore they watched each other silently when they thought no one was looking

Harry and they suspected the other two had been in battles before and had met You know who (whom they had recently began calling Voldemort except for peter who seemed afraid to say anything that started with Vole and ended in mort)

Draco seemed to be the more quiet one out of the group though he did have a loud mouth when he wanted to he seemed to be more strict or so he looked, he had not really said enough to make a lasting impression.

Ginny was definitely the talker she probably could talk forever and was always happy and there to make something good out of a bad situation. And to the eyes of Sirius black she seemed very pretty, but we don't need to go into the love traumas of Sirius black and we don't intend to.

Harry was by far the biggest mystery of the three, while he was very cheerful of the time it seemed that he every once and I while drew a serious face, or one of longing which just made them wonder even more. He also seemed to have many secrets and a past that they were not even sure they wanted to know.

This was all they had gotten so far but they were sure that in do time they would be able to completely unravel the ambiguity that their professors left with them and figure out the mystery of those in question.

Harry was walking along the hallways looking for the marauders, not to get them in trouble or to cause trouble either he simply had to ask them a favor.

Ten minutes later he found them on their way to the great hall for lunch.

"Hi Harry" Sirius said with a smile on his face.

"Hello boys I was wondering if I might be able to ask you something rather important."

"Sure"

"Good well let's move in here" Harry said indicating the empty classroom conveniently next to them.

"okay then, Today in class myself and the others are going to be teaching a very important lesson and I was just wondering if you guys could hold the fireworks and anything else you have planned for another day as I am afraid that this lesson is probably not made for them."

Curious as to what they were learning but all having their own ideas they nodded.

"Of course Harry, you have the marauders promise" James said on behalf of all four of the boys.

"Good well then we should probably get down to lunch I don't know about you but I am hungry."

"so am I" Sirius said in a shocked voice that sounded all to girly for a guy, the others just shook their heads and they all walked down to lunch, all of them wondering what the lesson would entail or in Harry's case how it would proceed.

The class settled in to their seats, lily had chosen to move a little further back just in case any more pranks would back fire but it was unnecessary for today at least as no pranks would be played.

"good afternoon class" Ginny said, her face seemed a little whiter than normal out of nervousness, come to think of it all of their professors looked a bit peaky.

The class murmured the same and Harry took over.

"Today we are going to start our next unit a unit on dark curses."

Harry noticed that all the Slytherin's seemed to shift forward in their sits showing their interest.

"so today we will be starting with the three unforgivables, of course only in theory for now"

The class all seemed to go white in the face what was he implying.

"There are three curses that the ministry and most of the world have deemed unforgivable does anyone know what they are"

A few students bravely raised their hands, Harry was proud to note that the marauders minus peter who was hiding behind his school book and lily had raised their hands though they all seemed to be shaking a little bit as they did so.

Harry took a deep breath and called on his godfather "Sirius"

"The Cruciatius curse" Sirius said his face gone whiter than chalk as he shuddered involuntarily, the mere name of the curse seemed to define what it did.

"Quite right, right now I want you all to imagine the worst pain that you have ever felt in your entire life" Harry said slowly, with a firm but soft voice, he hated to have to teach this to them but it was a key ingredient to surviving the war to not use the dark curses but to recognize them was very important and could decide between life or death.

He took a second while everyone thought of there worst most agonizing pain that they had ever felt and then continued.

"Then multiply that pain by the biggest number that currently comes to mind" he watched again as many faces turned whiter and many people shivered fearfully.

"and finally seal it in a closed bottle, that is the closest you could possibly get to describing what is felt when you are placed under such a curse" Harry said just above a whisper, he had had so much experience with that curse with all the curses that he found it hard to talk about them, but he did for the classes benefit. It did not help to see that all the Slytherin's seemed to hold looks of glee on their faces at the thought of such pain and torment a person could be put in, it sickened him so much that he thought that he would let his lunch out right there and then.

The others in the classroom seemed to find it horrifying, and few tried to hide their fear those that did were once again the marauders and lily.

Harry reached under his desk and pulled out a jar, which held three spiders that seemed to already know what was about to happen to them.

Harry opened the lid and picked up the spider that was squirming about the most, He raised his wand and first enlarged the spider so that the class could see it better, and then performed one of the more painful unforgivable on it.

"Crucio" he uttered though it took all of his concentration to pull it off because he really did not want to.

The spider buckled its legs and lay sprawled on the classroom floor administering tweets that would normally belong to a bird, trying to show his pain.

Harry took the curse off a second later and it, the class room sat still and shocked thinking that if it was this scary and painful to watch what would be like to go through they knew one thing though that they did not want to go through that anytime soon.

Harry sat down in his chair his breathing was slightly labored and his mind flooded with past memories he did not think that it would be that hard to teach to others but he knew now that it was.

Ginny walked secretly over to Harry as Draco continued on from their, she put her hand on his back and it calmed him instantly, he looked up and smiled at her, Ginny smiled back and then they both sat and watched as Draco continued on with the next curse.

"Does anyone know another one" Draco asked, he himself was having trouble with his emotions he had had a past of his own but it was a different one than Harry's.

Draco called on a Slytherin boy that had a smirk on his face as he said, "the killing Curse"

Harry's shoulders tensed as he said this, not because he was afraid but because it was just another one of those curses that he had had to much experience with. Even now he still could not utter those words even to a death eater he could not take a life. Surely he had taken Voldemort's but that was different but at the same time all the same.

Ginny seemed to realize that Harry was again uncomfortable, and squeezed his hand reassuringly, what surprised her was that he squeezed back.

"The killing curse in order to produce needs large amounts of hatred and happiness caused by others distress to fuel it. Its effects are like its name, it causes instant death, do the date no body has ever survived the killing curse."

Harry and Ginny could not help but share a knowing glance and a small hint of a smile, but what Draco said was true nobody to this 'date' had survived the killing curse but that did not cover what would happen in the near future.

Draco took out the next spider, and the whole class including himself seemed to hold their breath as he uttered the two most unforgivable words known to wizard.

"Avada Kedavra" He said the words with hate. The hate for the dark arts the hate for the curse itself but it did the job despite that in a way he did not want it to. The spider fell limp on the desk with a flash of green light.

Harry and Ginny as well as the rest of the class felt sickened by the thud that was heard and Harry could barely contain his lunch any longer he just hoped that the lesson would be over with soon.

Ginny knew that her turn was next and her face had gone so white that it seemed to glow. The imperious curse was something she had experience with and she was not looking forward to teaching it but she would.

Harry squeezed her hand like she had before and she looked at him quickly before getting up and walking to the class.

"d-does anyone know that last curse" Ginny said in a trembling voice.

James raised his hand while the rest seemed incapable, lily who sat a few seats up, had tears in her eyes she could not stand the thought of using or being on the receiving end of one of these curses and James wanted nothing more than to comfort her but he did not want his face to burn any redder than it already was if you know what I mean.

"James"

"The Imperious Curse" he said with confidence mixed with fear and uncomfortable ness.

Ginny nodded her head and took a deep breath before "The imperious while considered the mildest of the three can actually do as much damage or more than the other two. The imperious curse gives a person the ability to control another" Ginny let that sink in for a minute while her mind reeled over the memories of her first year again and again.

"t-they can cause a person to kill their best friend if someone ordered them to. The Imperious is also the only one of the three that can be fought off, and next lesson Harry will be administering it on all of you to see who can fight it off" Ginny said or voice quieting down as she spoke, her eyes were wide and seemed to be in another world but her voice stayed with the class.

Harry got up and joined his crush and said, "Okay then everybody I want you all to write a foot long essay on the full effects of one of these curse to be turned in next lesson, you may go"

The whole class rose like zombies and left. Leaving Ginny to drop to the floor she could no longer contain her emotions and she cried.

Harry wrapped her in a warm embrace and tried to calm her the best he could while she continued to cry.

Draco seemed to make him self scarce, as the two sat there on the floor in each others arms as they shared grief and remorse.

Out in the hall lily slid down the wall, trembling. She could not bear to think of what those curses could do to a person, as bad as the first two sounded she was mostly afraid of the imperious Ginny's words echoed in her mind " they can kill their best friend if someone ordered them to" She could not ever imagine being so helpless she could not imagine the guilt or devastation one would feel to learn that they had killed or hurt someone because another had taken control of them, she could not imagine even being controlled by another that whole scenario seemed to sicken and disgust her.

All of sudden she felt a hand on her shoulder, she raised her head expecting to find a teacher or one of her friends but was surprised to say the least when she saw that it was James .

"What do you want potter" she said with a shaky voice she was having trouble gaining control of her voice.

"Are you okay lily?" he asked sincerely.

She was silent for a moment before she answered, "it just seems so unrealistic yet it feels like the most realistic thing in the world"

"I know what you mean, those three curses cause more pain and suffering than anything else I know and to think that people out their use it for sport and pleasure sickens me to the core"

Lily looked into James' hazel eyes to see a mixture of emotions, she saw disgust, she saw anger, she saw terror, but what she did not see was fear, not a trickle of it.

Lily wiped her eyes of tears that she did not know had fallen, James helped her stand up, lily decided then and there that if one other person in the world could stand brave against evil than she would to.

She gave a small smile to James who returned it all the same his eyes now showed warmth and care something that she had up till now not noticed but then again there is something new you learn every day. And today she learnt that James potter was not as bad as she thought.

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