Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to FMA, FMA BBI, or Harry Potter. To answer a question, "Will people think Pride's a werewolf?" Interesting idea for a rumour I could write in a later chapter. Anyway, onto Chapter 7!

Chapter 7: A class with Mad Eye

After the lesson with Dumbledore, Envy was a bit surprised that he actually disarmed Dumbledore, but, he only disarmed Dumbledore strongly on the first Expelliarmus, the second attempt was good, but not as powerful as the first, and the third was where things went wrong. Envy tried to cast the charm again, but nothing happened that time. When Pride gave it a try, he did manage to get Dumbledore to flinch a bit, but not to get the wand out of his hand.

"It was a good try, Pride. But, I can say that there is room for improvement. Envy, you started out strong, but it kept weakening after the first attempt."

"I don't know what happened." Said Envy, shrugging.

"Well, we're going to have practice more later. You two head off to lunch now." Said Dumbledore, heading to his seat.

"See ya, Dumbledore." Said Envy, grabbing Pride's hand, and walking out with the office with the blonde homunculus, and the two were heading to lunch.

-The next day-

On this day, Envy and Pride's last period had "Defense Against The Dark Arts" class taught by Mad Eye Moody, with Harry, Ron, and Hermione were in that same class.

When Envy and Pride took a seat in two chairs behind Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and waited for Moody, the students heard the sound of Moody's footsteps coming down the corridor, and he entered the room, looking as strange and frightening as ever. His clawed, wooden foot was protruding from under his robes.

"You can put those away," He growled, stumping over to his desk and sitting down, "those books. You won't need them."

The students returned the books to their bags and Envy kept his eyes on the teacher.

Moody took out a register, shook his long mane of grizzled grey hair out of his twisted and scarred face, and began to call out names, his normal eye moving steadily down the list while his magical eye swiveled around, fixing upon each student as he or she answered.

"Right then," he said, when the last student had declared themselves present, "I've had a letter from Professor Lupin about this class. Seems you've had a pretty thorough grounding in tackling Dark creatures — you've covered boggarts, Red Caps, hinkypunks, grindylows, Kappas, and werewolves, is that right?"

There was a general murmur of assent with a good majority if the class, only Envy shrugged at what those things were, and Pride mimicked Envy's moves.

"But you're behind — very behind — on dealing with curses," Said Moody. "So I'm here to bring you up to scratch on what wizards can do to each other. I've got one year to teach you how to deal with Dark —"

After Ron interrupted Moody, and he spoke about Ron's father, he gave a harsh laugh, an then clapped his gnarled hands together.

"So — straight into it. Curses. They come in with many strengths and forms. Now, according to the Ministry of Magic, I'm supposed to teach you countercurses and leave it at that. I'm not supposed to show you what illegal Dark curses look like until you're in the sixth year. You're not supposed to be old enough to deal with it till then. But Professor Dumbledore's got a higher opinion of your nerves, he reckons you can cope, and I say, the sooner you know what you're up against, the better. How are you supposed to defend yourself against something you've never seen? A wizard who's about to put an illegal curse on you isn't going to tell you what he's about to do. He's not going to do it nice and polite in your face. You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking."

Envy laughed under his breath as Lavender jumped and blushed.

"So...do any of you know is which curses are most heavily punished by wizarding law?"

Envy saw several hands rose tentatively into the air, including Ron's and Hermione's. Moody pointed at Ron, though his magical eye was still fixed on Lavender.

"Er," Said Ron tentatively, "my dad told me about one...Is it the Imperius Curse or something?"

"Ah, yes," Said Moody appreciatively, "Your father would know that one. Gave the Ministry a lot of trouble at one time, the Imperius Curse."

Moody then demonstrated the curse on a spider from a jar. He swung it backward and forward as though on a trapeze. It stretched out its legs rigidly, then did a back flip, breaking the thread and landing on the desk, where it began to cartwheel in circles. Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rise onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance.

Everyone was laughing — everyone except Moody, Envy and Pride.

"Think it's funny, do you?" Growled Moody. "You'd like it, would you, if I did it to you?"

The laughter died away almost instantly.

"Total control," Said Moody quietly as the spider balled itself up and began to roll over and over. "I could make it jump out of the window, drown itself, throw itself down one of your throats..."

Ron gave an involuntary shudder.

Envy started drowning out, but at one point, he heard Moody bark, "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" which made almost everyone jump. Moody then went through what the other curses were with the other students, which, the other two curses were "The Cruciatus Curse" and "Avada Kedavra", which he demonstrated both the effects of the curses on two more spiders.

Moody made one of the spiders bigger than a tarantula, and tortured the spider with the pain of The Cruciatus Curse, then, he returned it back to normal size. The next one, on the other hand, died at a blinding green light, the hands of "Avada Kedavra". Envy wasn't terribly impressed, he just shrugged, watching the lesson, with Pride keeping his eyes on Envy with a blank expression. Then, Moody started talking again, saying, "Avada Kedavra's a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it — you could all get your wands out now and point them at me and say the words, but I doubt I'd get so much as a nose bleed. But that doesn't matter. I'm not here to teach you how to do it.

"Now, if there's no countercurse, why am I showing you? Because you've got to know. You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't find yourself in a situation when you're facing it. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" He roared, and almost everyone jumped again.

"Now...those are three curses — Avada Kedavra, Imperius, and Cruciatus — are known as the Unforgivable Curses. The use of any one of them on a fellow human being is enough to earn a life sentence in Azkaban. That's what you're up against. That's what I've got to teach you to fight. You need preparing. You need arming. But most of all, you need to practice constant, never-ceasing vigilance. Get out your quills...copy this down..."

They, including Envy and Pride, spent the rest of the lesson taking notes on each Unforgivable Curses. No one spoke until the bell rang — but when Moody dismissed them and they left the classroom, a torrent of talk burst forth. Most people discussing the curses in awed voices.

Envy decided to ignore them, and walk to the Great Hall for dinner, with Pride following him, and Envy said to Pride, "I can tell you we won't be able to be affected by those spells, Pride."

"...You...sure, Envy...?" Asked Pride.

"I'm sure." Said Envy, reaching the Great Hall with Pride.

Just thought I'd say this, if for those of you who don't know, I posted a new FanFiction not too long ago, it's called "Illusions of A Bluebird", it's a prequel to this FanFiction, so, If you're interested in reading it, go check it out. And as you can see, the second lesson started out great, but started to go downhill a bit. Looks like the two homunculi need a lot of practice. Well, I hope that your days are going great, now, I'm going to have some supper, and feed my dog a bit later. So, I'll see you readers later!