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Chapter Twenty Four:

Listen to what the man said

Voldemort sat in his lair before his servants from the future and present, "you have failed me once again" he hissed.

"My lord it was potter, his girlfriend, and my ill excuse of a son, they have come to the past on Dumbledore's orders we could not stop them, potter he is to powerful. My lord" Lucius Malfoy of the future spoke, he had fought against the likes of that group before and had lost half of his death eaters that day.

"What potter the one that defeated me in the future? Very well then we need to get on the move we need to get to the future quickly before it is to late, we don't want Potter to intervene anymore" the young Voldemort spoke hissing the name Potter like it was a venom.

"My lord if I could be so bold to say. It would be best if we stay here and finish Potter and the others in the past here were they are Vulnerable and cannot turn to their precious Dumbledore, it will make our return in the future go much more smoothly if we get potter off our backs and six feet under" Lucius spoke slowly wanting to make sure that he did not insult his lord in anyway that could get him punished further.

Voldemort sat and stroked his long thin chin, an evil smile growing on his face, "Lucius you are a genius, a worthy servant, yes potter shall not live to see the future again." A plan as to how was already formulating in his maniacal mind, potter would pay.

Lucius breathed a sigh of relief and bid his lord adieu via kissing the hem of his robes, and backing out.

"Before you go lucius, you need to learn not to be so cowardly in a battle as to run away, CRUCIO" Voldemort cried and then through his head back and laughed.

The day passed fairly quickly from then on, and soon it was time for the marauders and lily's next defense lesson, the one in which they were going to experience the imperius curse. You could certainly say that they were nervous.

Harry, Ginny, and Draco were also nervous while they had all had experience with the curse it could easily be said that none of it was good experience and left them a little unnerved.

The group of students took their seats some confident others utter wrecks and then you had some who felt nothing towards it mainly Slytherin's.

"Good evening, students today as I am sure you know we will be placing the imperious curse on each and every one of you, don't worry we won't make it to embarrassing for you" Harry said.

"Before we start we thought that we might demonstrate what it is like for someone to throw off the curse" Draco said.

Harry stepped forward and Draco trained his wand on him, "imperio" Draco said quickly and somewhat quietly.

Harry heard the voice immediately in the back of his mind "kiss Ginny" it said.

"Not now" he answered, truth being he would not mind kissing Ginny but not in front of his class and definitely not because a curse told him to.

"Kiss Ginny"

"no you git"

"KISS GI-"

"NO"

To anyone watching this display they would have simply thought that it had not even worked for Harry moved as he was fighting it but it you looked closely you could see his body shaking slightly and a small amount of perspiration building at his brow, before he successfully threw it off a minute later.

Harry stood up and turned to look at his co worker, Draco glaring. Draco smirked good naturedly while thinking, 'rats'

Harry then turned to look at Ginny who looked confused at the smirk and glare, he then turned away a small blush rising on his cheeks and turned back to the class, "alright then who's first"

Only two or three hands went up, one includes Lily who looked as if she was going to be positively sick.

Harry naturally called on his mother, he himself was nervous to know if his mother could throw off the curse, he was hoping for it.

"Lily" he called.

Lily rose shakily to her feet and walked up to the front of the classroom, looking back over the class she saw that everyone was paying attention, even Black and Potter. She was nervous beyond belief and truly hoped that she could throw off the curse, she didn't think she could handle it if she couldn't.

"Are you ready?" Harry asked.

Lily nodded her head slowly and shut her eyes ready for whatever was going to come her way.

"Imperio"

Lily could not feel anything for a moment and then all of sudden she felt like she was flying she was happy and comfortable, but try to remind herself that she shouldn't listen to anything she was told and that this comfort ability might hurt someone. A voice entered her mind, "Slap Draco" the voice said.

"Okay wait NO"

"You know you want to" the voice said again.

She felt her arm start to rise, but she forced it down "Why would I do that?"

"Slap Draco"

"NO, NO, NO" she fought and fought and didn't give in and suddenly the comfortable feeling and happiness of the curse left her, she had done it she had broken it off.

She opened her eyes to stare at her class who were wide-eyed that she had pulled it off, she smiled brightly and looked round at her professors. They were all grinning broadly at her; though Harry looked a little disappointed that Draco didn't get his planned revenge.

"Congratulations Lily, now class who is next" Harry said smiling.

Lily walked back to her seat, feeling wonderful, she had accomplished it, she did it she was positively gleeful.

The next person to go up was Bellatrix, she seemed to hold some resistance at first but in the end was weakened and ended up doing the bunny hop around the classroom, to the amusement of quite a few people.

Two more students went neither having any luck, next up was James.

James was not as nervous as lily had been but he still was not very confident, he sincerely did not know if he could do it.

James walked up to the front of the classroom and stood ready for when the curse started to take its effects.

"Ready" Harry asked again.

James just nodded, "Imperio"

James did not know how describe what he was feeling at that moment it was like some sort of fake happiness he knew that it was an effect from the curse but he felt comfortable in this atmosphere he heard a voice in the back of his voice saying, "drink some water"

James knew he shouldn't he felt his hand trying to pull its way off its course of heading to the glass on the desk, but was not entirely succeeding.

"Drink it"

"Why?"

"Do it"

"I don't want to"

"DRINK IT"

James could not help it he started to tip the liquid into his throat but at the same moment tried to jerk it away which ended up with James covered in the water.

"Good try James you almost had it for a while, don't worry about it" Harry said, he knew that his father could do it if he had some more practice, but hated to see the disappointed look on his face as he took his seat.

Lily watched James walk back to his seat looking defeated, and suddenly felt somewhat bad that he hadn't succeeded, after all he showed displeasure towards the curses and then knowing you were vulnerable against them could put you in an odd sense of emotion.

Next up was Sirius, who seemed to be not very confident, after seeing that James could not accomplish it Sirius did not know if he stood a chance but he would try.

Two minutes later Sirius sat back down again with a smile on his face he had completed the task with out even flinching, but he tried to contain his glee for his best friends sake who looked even more down in the dumps now that he saw that Sirius had accomplished it as well.

A few more kids went and one almost succeeded but in the end started running around the classroom holding his ears.

Peter went next, and with his results or lack thereof he might as well had just not gone.

Remus came after Peter and almost managed to perform the task but stumbled a little at the end of touching his toes.

The rest of students went one by one and like peter none accomplished it, Harry and the others had not really expected any different but were a little disappointed to see how many of their students were going to be vulnerable to Voldemort and his death eaters.

Snape was the last to go and he stood at the front of the classroom his head held high in confidence, Harry's eyes held a mischievous twinkle and he spoke, "Imperio"

Snape heard a voice in the back of his head, telling him to do the Macarena while singing the Hogwarts song.

Slowly he found his arms and legs moving along to the beat and in a voice much higher than his own singing the Hogwarts school song.

The occupants of the room could not contain there laughter at the sight, and even James was momentarily drawn out of his gloom to enjoy a few good hard and long laughs at the greasy git in front of him.

Harry, Draco, and Ginny could barely hold in their laughter as well, and if you looked closely you could see their shoulders shaking and tears of mirth in their eyes.

Shortly after the bell rung and the class exited the room, among them a happy Lily and Sirius, a gloomy James, a prat Peter, a pleased Remus, and a beet red Severus Snape.

A.N. so what do you think I was not entirely happy with the flow of words in this chapter they did not seem to make sense at parts but I did not know how else to phrase it so I hope its clear enough, tell me what you think,

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