Year 1: The Legend Unfolds
Chapter fifteen: The Imperius
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A/N: WOW! Chapter 15! This is like... a milestone! I'm so proud. Hee hee. Anyway... sorry it took me kind of a while to update. My teachers are sadistic... and I've had a lot of crap to do. And sorry it's a bit shorter than they usually are... but I figured you guys would want a speedy update rather than a super long chapter... But at least I got a chapter up! And it's lucky chapter 15!! Okay so it's not really lucky... but it's sweet! So go on and read this, and REVIEW at the end!!
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Not long after the day when Avery came late to class, another full moon was coming. The boys were sitting in their dorm room, finishing up some homework. Well, all except for Remus, who was packing a suitcase to take to the hospital wing with him.
"I wish you didn't have to go, Remus," James said sympathetically.
"Believe me, so do I," he answered with a slight chuckle.
"Does it, er, hurt?" Sirius asked. Remus turned his head to Sirius and nodded.
"Yeah," he answered, grabbing a pair of socks from his trunk and throwing them in his suitcase.
"I wish there was something we could do!" James said.
"There's not. But I'll be fine. I've been doing it since I've been a little kid after all," Remus said, closing his suitcase with a snap.
"I'll see you all in a few days," Remus called as he headed out the door.
"Poor guy," James muttered, looking at the door that his friend had just headed out of.
"I know," Sirius said, also looking at the door.
"My uncle is a werewolf, too," Peter said, feeling a little left out of the conversation. Both Sirius and James turned to look at him.
"Do you guys do anything to help him get through it?" James asked, his mind still stuck on the idea of helping his friend.
"I-I don't think so," Peter stuttered.
James frowned, his eyes falling back on the Herbology essay he was currently working on. Once he finished it, he put his things away, changed into his pajamas, and went right to bed. However, he didn't fall asleep right away. He stayed up thinking about Remus and his condition. For some reason, he just couldn't get over it, and he felt that until he was able to help he wouldn't be able to sleep much during the full moons
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Brighid Potter sat in her defense classroom, half listening to her best friend Cathy babble on about some cute guy. She looked around the classroom nervously, waiting for the class to start, so that it would be over with sooner. Avery wasn't exactly late, as half of the students weren't even there yet, but she was still anxious. Something about Professor Avery just always made her nervous.
"Settle down, class," came Professor Avery's voice as he waltzed into the classroom, his robes billowing behind him. Although not many people were talking, those who were quickly quieted down and everyone turned to face the front of the classroom.
"Today, you will be learning about three very… special curses," he said, his lip curling menacingly. Brighid shifted in her seat uncomfortably, not really liking where this was going.
"The Unforgivables," Avery continued, and Brighid's eyes widened in shock. Was he going to teach them how to cast those? Surely that wasn't in the curriculum!
"Now, I am not going to teach you how to do them," Avery continued, answering Brighid's unasked question, "But I will be teaching you how to defend yourselves against them." Avery pulled out his wand and faced the class.
"Can anybody name one?" he said. A hand belonging to a quiet but smart boy sitting in the front row nervously raised itself.
"Yes, Gray," Avery barked.
"The Imperius, sir?" replied the boy, Anthony Gray.
"Exactly! The curse which forces the victim to do whatever the caster wants. This is the first curse that I will be teaching you to defend yourselves against. I will cast it on each of you in turn, and you will simply have to try not to obey the influence of the curse," he said, and a shocked silence fell over the classroom.
There is no way that is allowed! Brighid though, shocked. She looked around the room, and saw that most of the other students were looking apprehensive as well.
"Professor?" Brighid said, raising her hand up cautiously. Avery's eyes snapped to her.
"Ah, wonderful, a volunteer!" Avery said, and Brighid shook her head.
"No, I just-" but Brighid was cut off.
"Come on now, get down here," Avery insisted, staring at her hard. Brighid sighed and slowly got to her feet. She stood in the front of the classroom, facing the class.
"Imperio," Avery said viciously from behind Brighid. She suddenly felt an odd feeling spread over her. She felt suddenly very happy, and she also had the strange feeling that she was flying.
Come closer to me. Suddenly a voice pierced through Brighid's mind. A cold, menacing voice. Brighid shrugged and walked over to where Professor Avery was. She knew that she was supposed to resist the curse, but she didn't really see a point in it.
Now, give me the watch. Brighid was shocked when she heard this demand in her mind. She should have seen that this was his plan from the beginning.
Give me the Watch of Glory! The voice demanded, more urgent this time. Brighid shook her head.
If you don't have it, then tell me where it is! Brighid opened her mouth to tell him that it resided with James, but she forced herself to shut it too.
Tell me! But Brighid kept her mouth clamped tightly shut.
Tell me now!
"NO!" Brighid screamed this out loud, and suddenly she felt like she was crashing back to reality. The wonderful feeling of the spell was gone, but she sighed in relief, knowing that she had kept the watch hidden.
The other students in the class looked at her in shock. Her friend Cathy had eyes as big as saucers, and Brighid had a feeling that Cathy had figured out what Avery had wanted her to do. After all, Brighid had been keeping her informed on what was going on with Avery.
Avery had a look of anger on his face, but when he saw the students looking at them, he quickly masked his anger with a look of fake delight. He clapped his hands together is what he hoped was a pleasant way.
"Well! Look at that! Brighid managed to overthrow the curse! It's really quite an accomplishment to do that on her first try," Avery said, his teeth clamped together and a menacing look on his face. Brighid slowly edged back to her seat as Avery called up another student to perform the Imperius curse on.
The poor boy seemed to be the way that Avery dealt with his anger, as he made him do many interesting things, but Brighid wasn't really paying much attention. The main thought on her mind was warning James about what had happened. James was only eleven, and if Avery decided to perform the Imperius curse on him, it was unlikely that he would be able to fight it off.
"Brighid, come on!" Cathy yelled, and Brighid looked up only to see that everyone was packing up their bags to leave. Brighid quickly threw her things in her bag and rushed out the door with her friend, making sure that she wouldn't be the last one in the classroom with Avery.
"What did he ask you to do?" Cathy asked as they walked down to the Great Hall for dinner.
"At first he told me to give him the watch, but then he just told me to tell him where it was. But I didn't, thankfully," Brighid said. She and Cathy walked into the hall and located James sitting at the Gryffindor table chatting with Sirius and Peter. Brighid walked over to him and pulled him up by the collar of his shirt.
"James, I need to talk to you," Brighid said.
"Can you do it without holding onto my shirt?" James asked irritably. Brighid sighed and let go of his shirt.
"Fine, come on, let's go," Brighid said, shooting a quick glance towards the staff table and letting out a small sigh of relief when she saw that Avery wasn't at the table.
"I'm coming..." James muttered, waving to Sirius and Peter and heading out of the hall.
"I wonder what that was about..." Peter said, grabbing another roll out of the basket in front of him. Sirius gave him a look that clearly said "wow, you're dumb!"
"What do you think, Peter?" Sirius said. Peter furrowed his brow.
"Was it about Avery and the watch?" Peter asked, a little bit too loudly. Sirius quickly shushed him.
"Probably. But keep your voice down, will you!?" Sirius said.
"Sorry," Peter said, looking down at his hands in embarrassment.
"We are going to have to remember to tell Remus when he gets back from-" But Sirius cut him off.
"PETER! Is it completey impossible for you to think about things before you say them?" Sirius snapped at Peter again. Peter blushed.
"I wasn't gonna say anything bad..." Peter mumbled.
Sirius rolled his eyes and went back to his food, waiting for James to get back and fill them in. Neither Sirius nor Peter saw Lily sitting a few seats down, the wheels in her head turning as she tried to figure out what two secrets the boys were keeping that Sirius didn't want Peter to say.
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