Chapter 46: Lord Potter!
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'Still though, I suspect this isn't the regular curriculum. Maybe it's a special treat for me?'
Loki snorted. 'Pay attention, he's going to speak.'
'I already know the Unforgivables.'
'Yes, but his inevitable rant about their innate evil will undoubtedly be amusing.'
He snapped back to reality as Moody began to prowl around the room, his wooden leg clunking against the floor. "You there!" he suddenly snapped at Ron. "Tell me one of the Unforgivables!"
Wide-eyed, Ron stuttered for an answer before finally managing, "The Imperius Curse, sir."
"Ah, yes. The Imperius, a spell for controlling others. It was used by supporters of the Dark Lord" - one of Moody's eyes focused on Malfoy for a moment - "during the war to claim that he had made them do it, and that they were in fact innocent."
'They can't have been. Even one as powerful as Lord Voldemort wouldn't have been able to sustain the spell over so many at once. It is also obvious when one is under the Imperius, so it would have been easy to detect,' Loki explained.
'Yes, I already know that, seeing as you told me it last time. You just like the sound of your own voice.'
'Oh, please. That would be to imply that there is anyone who doesn't like the sound of my voice.' Loki snorted. 'Anyway, I was saying that as I was wondering whether or not Voldemort managed to create some kind of mass mind-control spell, but it is unlikely.'
With a nod, Harry once again went back to paying attention to the lesson. Moody was now preparing to use the Imperius on a spider, and Harry somehow wasn't surprised he had deemed it a good decision to go around using dark magic in front of children.
After a while of making the spider leap about, most of the class was laughing, and Moody boomed, "Do you think this is funny?!"
Harry tuned out once again as the crazy ex-Auror went on a rant about how this could be done to any of them, and then began to call people up for demonstrations. It was then Harry began to pay attention.
He was using Unforgivables on children? Mad indeed. After a quick discussion with Loki, he had his defence planned out, so when Moody barked, "Potter," he was well prepared.
As he got to his feet and moved over to the man, he resisted the urge to smirk.
"Imperio," Moody incanted, and bliss settled over him.
A mere millisecond later, a wave of ice came crashing down upon it, obliterating it, though leaving the telepathic link between Harry and Moody.
Through it, Harry could hear Moody's instructions, yet they were easy to ignore, and a moment later he was backtracking the link.
Moody was woefully unprepared as Harry turned his own Imperius on him, ordering the man to throw his wand out the window.
Unfortunately, he hit the frame, and the wand simply bounced back into the room as Harry released him. He blinked a few times before suddenly turning furious and bringing his hand up as if he still had his wand.
It only took him a second to realise he didn't have it, and he swore in a voice nowhere near as gruff as his usual tone before going to collect it.
Subtly taking his wand from his sleeve, Harry prepared to defend himself if need be. He had no doubt that if Moody attacked, it would be fast. Luckily, he didn't attack, instead choosing to go onto the next part of the lesson: the Cruciatus.
Like the Imperius, Harry didn't really care for it. Sure, it could be useful, but it practically reeked of dark magic, making it incredibly easy for it to sense if it had been used recently.
He could quite easily replicate its effects with illusion, anyway. Nonetheless, it was amusing to see Moody take his rage out on a spider using it, or more specifically, to see the class cower away in fear from it.
Eventually, Moody ended the creature's life with a spat Killing Curse and flash of green light, prompting Harry to cut off Loki before he could go off about why it was useless.
'Moves slowly. Asgardian magic can go through shields as well. Takes a lot of concentration. Can only kill one person at a time. Did I cover everything?'
'Yes, I think so, though I would still like to listen to the sound of my own voice. Would you like me to recite some poetry?'
'No, because then I won't have time to prepare for the first task and will be eaten by the dragon, resulting in the deaths of both of us.'
Loki hummed thoughtfully, before saying, 'Well, the only thing I love more than myself is self-preservation, so I suppose I'll have to go along with it. Are you going to go to another class?'
'Well,' Harry began, 'if all the teachers are as crazy as Moody, I don't see why not.'
"20 points from Gryffindor, Mr Potter," hissed Snape, his black eyes alight with cold fury.
"That's Lord Potter to you, you bloody pleb!" Harry resisted the urge to start laughing, keeping a purely serious expression upon his face.
The rest of the class had considerably less resolve, and most of the Gryffindors had already burst into fits of giggles, apparently over their fear of him.
For once they had the ability to do so freely, Snape's ire focused entirely on Harry. That was a result of the numerous insults he had given him.
Snape, of course, had been the one to start the verbal war, calling Harry a celebrity in a way he felt was wholesomely mocking.
Taking offence to that, he had to defend himself with answering every one of Snape's potions-related questions with flawless answers recited from Loki's memory.
This had, of course, caused Snape to begin issuing detentions and taking points, at which point Harry had politely informed the man he wouldn't be accepting any punishments.
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