First Years Lesson Four

Professor Adler's students were already in the lesson, sat in their seats and (hopefully) behaving themselves, when the blonde pushed open the door and strode to the front of the class, hair flying over her shoulder and not tied up in her usual braids. By the time she reached the head of the classroom, turning to face her students, she was out of breath and slightly red in the face, as though she'd run here from the Astronomy Tower. Probably not the best start to a lesson that would be one of their most serious. "Does everyone have their parchment out?" she asked, giving them and herself a moment to prepare themselves.

"What are the consequences of using the Dark Arts?" Geo asked rhetorically, "That's a complex question since not all dark practices are truly evil or even criminal. You've seen what getting involved 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,'' Professor Adler spoke and glanced around the classroom, some were taking notes, some weren't. ''The Unforgivable Curses are a different matter.'' With a flick of her wand to the board beside her, some additional notes appeared.


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

"These spells are particularly cruel, vile, and illegal. The punishment for using any of these spells are severe and will result in a one-way ticket to Azkaban." Geo wondered how many people already knew about the magical prison. "You will not use these spells under any circumstances," and no one had the right to go above the law and practice these spells, regardless of if it were for educational purposes and even if they believed it to be beneficial. "Anyone who ends up in Azkaban will have their wand taken and destroyed, and you'll carry the reputation as someone who's spent time in that horrendous place for the rest of your life." Geo had seen firsthand what people would do to avoid being sent there, and the influence the prison had on their release. "That's all we're doing for today, however if you like to practice the shield charm and stunning spell again on the dummies, you're more than welcome to, especially if you chose to keep to the theoretical approach last week."

To receive an O:
- Roleplay the lesson

For additional credit:
- Practice the shield charm and stunning spell on a dummy
 
Marina was excited to get on with the lesson, she was pretty sure they would only have Adler for a little longer so she was intending to get as much out of her as she could as they were going. The lesson's tone shifted quite a bit though as she took notes about the Unforgivable curses. This made her pause and she had to take a moment to really take in what the professor was saying because she didn't want to miss anything as she wrote it all down. She practiced the spells as they were supposed and then quickly packed up her notes and headed out of class.

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Freddie, sitting in his usual seat, rolled his pens back and forth on the desk. So if he cast a lot of jinxes on people, he'd get ugly like Lord Voldemort? Or was it only the really, really bad ones? How many times did you have to cast them? What if you did it once? He leaned forward to copy down the three unforgiveable curses, squirming with the pressure not to ask all the questions in his head. He was only gonna get laughed at. Or people would think he wanted to do dark magic, which he didn't. He was just curious.
Dark Magic

Using dark magic bad things will happen. Your face will get weird like Lord Voldemort. You can also go to Azakaban (LOOSE WAND) - bad reputation.

Killing curse instantly kills no pain
Cruciatus curse bad pain (not kill)
Imperius curse makes them do whatever you want???

All really bad

Standing, he pushed up his sleeves. The last time they'd done the shield and stunning charms, Professor Adler had made him show her what he could do. He'd practised since then. His shield charm still wasn't as big or bright as everyone else's, but his aim was ten times better. Almost all his shots hit the dummy, or at least only missed by a few centimeters. He'd have to practise some more. If he was gonna be a duelling champion one day, he couldn't miss any shots.

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Amias walked into the defence against the dark arts classroom and took his usual spot int he room. He glanced towards the professor as the woman got started and they focused on the unforgivables. He knew that they wouldn't learn more about them till they were older but even this gave him chills how anyone could want to do this to another person. Eventually the lesson moved on, talking about how abd they were and what happened if you did one. Then the professor allowed them to just practice the spells from the week before which Amias eagerly did until the professor then dismissed them.

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