First Years, Lesson Four

LESSON FOUR​

Noel was already standing up as the first year students came in. He greeted them with an friendly smile and closed the door behind as he walked over to it. He liked stretching his legs and not sitting down all lesson. Today it was an important but also heavy subject he needed to be talking about. One which recently came very close to himself, since in his family there had been some incidents with it. He than walked back to his desk and leaned towards it as he asked for attention of the first years.

With an more serious face than usual he started. ''What are the consequences of using Dark Magic?'' He than put down. Not directly as an question an student needed to answer. '' That's an complex question since not all dark practices are truly evil or even criminal. You've seen what meddling with the Dark Arts can do when I showed you an image of Lord Voldemort. Once a normal human like you and me, his physical appearance changed gradually as he became more involved with the Dark Arts. But as I said, that doesn't mean that every curse or jinx has the same effect on people,'' Noel spoke looking around the classroom, some were taking notes, some weren't. '' The Unforgivable Curses are a different matter.'' He than made text appear on the blackboard behind him with a flick of his wand.

Unforgivable Curses

• The Killing Curse: Causes instant and painless death
  
• The Cruciatus Curse: Inflicts excruciating pain on the victim of the curse
  
• The Imperius Curse: Causes the victim to become unquestioningly obedient to the caster
  

He than looked back at the class to see if they all paid attention, and how the reactions were. '' The Killing Curse, the Cruciatus Curse and the Imperius Curse are particularly vile and quite illegal curses. The punishments for using any of these three curses on another person are severe. If you are caught you'll likely be spending the rest of your life in the wizarding prison Azkaban.'' He than spoke. Knowing well enough that his uncle was leading this exact fate. But he had never been close with him. '' Whilst incarcerated, your wand will be taken from you and destroyed, and your name will be forever tarnished. '' Noel looked around giving the students enough time to write it all down before continuing. Letting that sink in. And walked through the classroom. '' For the rest of the lesson, I would like for you to partner up again and practice the Shield Charm and the Stunning Spell. Try to use a different partner than last week, please.'' Noel walked around the classroom, to help out in case it was needed. And to observe the students an bit.

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Roleplay the lesson.

 

[Lilith Ilves]

Lilith walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts Classroom feeling less confident than usual, something in the back of her mind was telling her that this lesson might be less of an enjoyable one. Pretty soon after the Professor started talking she understood those warning bells in the back of her mind, they were talking about some unforgivable curses. She was sure if you cast a glance at her during the lesson you could see her face get paler and paler at each word out the professors mouth. The thought of someone using such cruel magic on someone else was just beyond her and she hoped she'd never have to encounter it, at least they'd be taught some spells to counter such things were they ever unfortunate enough to encounter such a cruel person.

Lilith looked around the classroom and paired up with a student and got to practicing. Her head wasn't fully in the game though, as she found herself wondering why anyone would use such magic. Why such magic even would exist? Who came up with them? Who discovered it and how? Perhaps that could be a question she could sometime, if she gathered enough guts to, ask the professor about. Maybe he'd know? Before she even realized their time was up and she was more than glad to get out for the day, Lilith would need some cozy book that was definitely not about real life things to unwind from such a heavy information, though she did wonder about her questions for the rest of her day.

 

[Elijah Edogawa]

After what happened with Jonah last lesson, Eli had decided it would be a good idea to sit with his brother this time, and should he attempt to do something stupid Eli could stop him before he did it. Why he had thought it would be a good idea to let anyone cast anything on him at all (honestly had he not listened to Uncle Liam's and Aunt Ai's lectures) then he clearly had not been listening. For this lesson, apparently they were talking about Dark Magic, so Eli was taking a lot of notes to make sure he had everything covered (and in case Jonah could not take notes, for whatever reason). He liked to copy down everything said in English, because it was easier than having to translate first and then write the notes, when he could write them as said and then transcribe them into Japanese for Jonah later. It meant extra work, and so his social had been suffering, but he didn't want Jonah to fall behind in lessons this semester so he would do what he had to do for his brother. He got as detailed as possible for the Unforgivable curses, wondering how best to transcribe them, considering the names of the spells were the same, but held different meaning in Japanese. The professor was being serious, but there was something almost personal there too - he knew there were people who might use such magic, and he wanted to understand what they might be up against. He practiced the shield charm with Jonah, he hadn't practiced spells with him last time, and spent the majority of the lesson correcting his brother's form.​