Who: Amycus Carrow, 6th and 7th year students What: DADA class When: Wednesday, 9 February, 1998 Where: DADA classroom Rating: PG, maybe PG-13?
"Right then," Amycus declared, having finished outlining what were considered to be the essentials of the Killing Curse on the blackboards. "Books away, wands out. Everyone separate into groups of four, please," he asked, going to the store cupboard and bringing out a large cardboard box, followed by another, and a third. Inside of each were mason jars, each containing some sort of creepy crawling poisonous thing, spiders, doxies, flesh eating slugs, and lobalugs.
Once everyone had broken apart into groups, Amycus began levitating the jars around the room. "Before you are test subjects," he began, "swap them around as needed until you've got your least favorite of the lot, it'll be helpful." He allowed for a moment's pause while some of the students sorted themselves out, ignoring a hand raised in the air with a question. "Since you've come to the conclusion that the Killing Curse is, in your opinion, the least objectionable of the Unforgiveable Curses, we're going to start here. Before anyone bothers to question the legality of this lesson," he said, holding his hand up, "I would like to point out that N.E.W.T. level students studying the subject in years past have had to do similar things without being arrested, and that our law clearly states that the life sentence in Azkaban is for using these curses on another witch or wizard, not a bug." He smiled reassuringly around the room despite the dubious looks on some of the students' faces. "Nobody is going to come into question before the Wizengamot for killing a doxy, and the point of this exercise is to teach you that while the Killing Curse is of course a very serious weapon of the Dark Arts, it is also exceedingly difficult to actually kill anything with it, unless you have the proper intent and motivation.
"We'll spend the last half of the hour attempting this very thing. Your assignment is to end the life of your subject, or at the very least make a passable attempt to do so. Those who refuse," he said, eyes lingering on those who seemed obvious dissenters, "will be staying after class until they have completed the assignment as directed."
There was a pause, while some students continued to stare at him, others at the tiny poisonous beasts before them. "Well get started!" declared Amycus, waving his hands impatiently.