modnpc (modnpc) wrote in attheclose, @ 2011-01-12 14:14:00 |
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Who: Amycus Carrow, Seventh Year Students
What: DADA Class
When: Wednesday, 12 January, 1998
Where: DADA Classroom
Rating: PG, I'd guess?
Scrawled across the blackboards in Amycus' untidy script was a list of the various creatures, curses, hexes, and jinxes that they had already studied during the first half of the term. His lessons had been informative, instructive, and thorough; for as a professor Amycus Carrow had fallen somewhere between Remus Lupin's fully hands on approach and Dolores Umbridge's polar opposite one. There were lessons in which dark magic was discussed, but this year there was certainly less emphasis on defending one's self from the dangers they posed and more on why it was important to understand one's enemy well, and what resources they could employ. It wasn't that they hadn't learned how to defend themselves from such things, but were a scales to be weighted with their studies, it would have tipped slowly down to favor the notion that it was equally as important to understand how to perform the dark magic, and when such spells were to be used, as how could one defend against what they did not know?
And so the cycle began again, although NEWT level students had now reached a point where to step ahead meant walking through territory they had all been told was utterly reprehensible for most of their young, naive lives. It was Amycus' job to adjust the angle from which they viewed so-called dark magic, and the penultimate chapters of the task were upon them now. On their own board, in the center of the others, he had written the names of the three Unforgivable Curses.
"Can anyone tell me," Amycus asked, his hands behind his back where he stood before his desk at the head of the classroom, surveying his pupils, "why the Ministry of Magic chose the three curses that they did, to be designated as Unforgivable?"