It's now 7.43pm New Years Day and I've been writing this since like 11am. So here it is Chapter 6!
Stunned silence greeted this. No one could believe it. Then whispers began to break out.
"But Sir! How can you not be afraid of him?"
"They must be lying!"
"They are TOO cool!"
"Who do they think they are?"
"Wow!"
"I can't believe it. I won't believe it."
"QUIET!" Yelled Potter
"Is it really that hard to believe?" said Professor Granger softly. She almost sounded disappointed. "He is only a man after all. A cruel, twisted man, but he is pretty close to human."
"That's 10 minutes guys. On with the lesson. First we have a bit of planning to do. Hermione?"
She had been staring out into space, but at Harry's question she came back down to earth.
"Yes. Sorry. First of all, no one is to call us Sir or Ma'am or Professor. We aren't much older than you and it makes us uncomfortable."
"We are Harry and Hermione or hey you there," said Harry jokingly and the class laughed appreciatively.
"Next we are going to lay down some rules for the classroom, " said Hermione. "We want you to have fun, but we need you to learn, otherwise we're going to get fired. So we need your full attention all the time and trust me, you're not going to miss one of these lessons."
"That means no private conversations unless we say, no working on anything that isn't directly related to the work we set. We will have no rudeness or bullying in our classrooms nor any fights. We can kick you out as easily as we please, so don't upset us."
After that little speech, no one was planning to play up in this classroom anymore.
"Now that that's out of the way, we are going to outline the year plan. The topics are on the board, you may copy them down if you wish. We will be explaining each fully as we get to them. We will actually start our first topic today."
He waved his wand and the topics appeared on the board in a very neat, even, round font, very unlike his own messy scrawl.
The Unforgivable Curses
Progressive Magic
Boggarts
Fitness
Muggle and Wizard Duelling
"Firstly the Unforgivables. The Headmaster has told us that you have not yet covered these. Is this true?"
"Yes sir," intoned the class.
"What did I say about 'Sirs'? Now try that again."
"Yes Harry."
"Very good. As I was saying, you haven't done them yet which is appalling! We did them when we were in 4th year!"
"Today we will begin by demonstrating all 3 and placing the Imperious curse on you to see if you can throw it off… don't gasp like that. Oh really by quiet."
The class had broken into hysterical talk. Everyone knew that what he was proposing to do was illegal. There was no way that he could be serious.
Harry was getting fed up, "QUIET!" he yelled.
"I think it would be best if we moved on and dealt with that particular objection when it arises, don't you Harry?" asked Hermione soothingly.
"The next thing on our agenda," she continued "is progressive magic. This is the art of changing magic, with your mind, to suit your purpose, you might delay the time frame, suit it to a bigger or smaller size frame, or alter your intention, so you can use a small knowledge of spells for a wide variety of uses. It will all become clearer when we start the subject."
Harry soon felt calm enough to speak, "After that, we will be starting a unit on Boggarts."
"But sir, we've already done Boggarts! That's grade 3 work," said a boy from Ravenclaw.
"If you had just let me finished, I would have told you that we are not learning how to fight against boggarts. You will each in turn step up to the boggart and find out what you fear the most, and then the whole class together will learn how to fight off what you fear. If you fear trolls, we fill learn how to fight them, If you fear banshees, then we will learn how to fight her too. We will continue with this subject until everyone in the class can fight off every persons fear."
Hermione took over for him after that, "Then we will begin our duelling lessons, these will take up about half of the year, but before we can do that, we have to get you all fit enough to participate. You will each be given a physical examination and we will spend 2 weeks of classes bringing your fitness up to what it should be. Then we can move onto the best subject of the year."
"Duelling. We will teach you to fight with knives, with guns, with your hands, with your wand, with a staff, with a sword and with a bow and arrow to name a few. "
"I am positive that you will enjoy learning this as much as we will enjoy teaching it."
"Hermione, it's now 10 o'clock so we have an hour to start learning the Unforgivables."
"Alright, you must know why the Unforgivables are named so?
The class murmured it's accent.
"Good so who can tell me what they are? Yes Miss. Brown."
"There is one that causes great pain, the Cruciatus Cruse."
"Very good description," said Harry. "Who here has seen the Cruciatus curse?"
No one put up their hands.
"You are about to now," and he pulled a large cockroach from a jar under his desk. "Crucio!"
The cockroach began to jerk around on the desk. It admitted a high pitched keening sound and it was clear to see that it was in pain. Harry removed the spell and the cockroach shuddered one last time then lay still.
Hermione asked for another curse.
"Imperius curse, the controlling one," said Sirius Black matter of factly.
"That's right Mr. Black, " she said coolly. " Imperio!"
The cockroach danced around on the desk then jumped an enormous distance and landed on Sirius's head. It then crawled down his very pale face and unmistakeably kissed him on the cheek. Then it ran back with inhuman speed and sat on the desk like a dog before Hermione called off the spell.
"And does anyone know the last one?" she asked
Remus Lupin put up his hand for the first time in class, "Avada Kedavra, the killing curse."
"Very clever Lupin. Now, "Avada Kedavra!"
There was a flash of green light and then the cockroach lay dead on its back.
"That's how easy it is, " said Harry sadly. "Two words and you're dead. There is no way to stop it and no one has survived it ("yet," he thought ). We can't teach you to block it, because it's not possible, but we can teach you to block the Imperius curse. It can be done!"
They proceeded to do a demonstration in which Harry was meant to hop on the desk like a monkey but just stood there and laughed at the looks on his students faces.
The students then got in two lines, one behind Harry and one behind Hermione. They cast the spell on each of the students in turn and made them do a great number of incredible things.
Only when Harry saw James Potter standing in front of him, did he have any hope of someone throwing it off.
"Ready James?"
"Ready enough."
"Imperio!"
Go and kiss Sirius, you know that you want to. Come on James KISS HIM! NOW!
But James just stood there. After about 20 seconds Harry increased the pressure on his mind, but he didn't kiss Sirius, he did however fall to the floor panting and utterly exhausted.
"Did you see that everyone! James Potter beat the Imperius curse! Well done James go sit down and help yourself to some of the chocolate on the desk. Extremely well done! And on your first try too!"
Next in line was Lily Potter. Looking determined to beat Potter, she stepped up to Harry and asked for him to put her under the curse.
"Imperio!"
Yell I love James, Lily! You know you want to. It's the only thing to do! Yell it Lilly! YELL IT NOW!
But she didn't budge, she withstood all of his efforts. Only when he released her did she show any signs of weakness. She swayed and would have fallen over if Harry hadn't caught her.
"Go and sit with James Lily. Both of you HAVE to eat some chocolate."
'Why can't I play matchmaker in the past,' thought Harry. 'if I'm not born that could be a bit problematic!'
He continued to perform the curse until most people had made a complete ass of themselves.
James and Lily were the only ones to throw it off completely, but others had smaller successes.
Sirius and Remus had both resisted for about 15 seconds before they gave up and did what they were told.
Rhea, managed to fight off the spell well enough to do everything she was told to do backwards, but couldn't stop herself dancing.
"Very well done everyone!" said Hermione. "I think that's enough for today."
"You must all be tired. Eat a big lunch and don't forget some chocolate, it really helps!"
That had been one awesome according to the Marauders and that was all the talked about all the way to the great hall.
Infact, that was all anyone was discussing in the whole school. Those that had been in the lesson were telling everyone that would listen how awesome it was, and those that hadn't, were counting down the hours until they had a lesson with the new professors.