Chapter 58 The Unforgivable Curse and the Protection Curse
Tom didn't ask any more questions. He didn't have any expectations for this group of little wizards: the probability of the first-year wizard knowing the Unforgivable Curse was really low, so he didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and wrote three words on the blackboard.
Line characters.
"Killing Curse"
"The Imperius Curse"
"The Cruciatus Curse"
After he finished writing, he knocked on the blackboard, "These three spells are the Unforgivable Curses." Tom paused, allowing the little wizards time to copy down the contents on the blackboard. "These three spells are extremely evil.
Once cruel black magic is used on people, they will be imprisoned in Azkaban - the wizard's prison - for life."
"The Cruciatus Curse tortures people's bodies, the Imperius Curse controls people's minds, and the Killing Curse takes people's lives."
At this time, all the little wizards in the class were quietly lying in front of the table, taking notes conscientiously.
Tom took the spider cage and approached the little wizards in the first row. Except for Peggy, who was sitting by the window, they all shrank back subconsciously.
"I only know one of the three unforgivable curses. Although I can use it, I have never used it... This spell is really too evil... Today, I will show it to you."
Tom gently opened the door of the cage, and a spider jumped out of it, jumped onto the desk in the first row, and then ran quickly on the desk. The little wizards in the front row let out a burst of
Screaming, desperately dodging backwards, and some people even knocked over the table in the back row.
The spider flew all the way and fled towards the window. It was getting closer and closer to the window and closer to freedom. But a cup falling from the sky stopped the pace of embracing freedom.
"Professor Lockhart, your spider." Peggy inserted a piece of parchment paper into the gap between the cup and the table, and held the spider up to Tom.
The spider jumped up and down in the cup, and there was only a thin piece of parchment between Peggy's palm. She could clearly feel the touch of the spider's eight legs on her palm. Many little wizards got sick just thinking about it.
Goosebumps arose, but Peggy's expression never changed.
Tom tapped his wand to make the bottle float in mid-air.
"Thank you, Miss Grossman." Tom motioned Peggy to sit back in his seat. When everyone was seated, he turned the cup over and removed the floating spell. The spider inside crawled into the cup little by little.
On the edge, Tom raised his wand -
"Avada Kedavra!"
A dazzling green light flashed, and at the same time there was a chaotic sound, as if an invisible giant flew through the air - at the same time, the spider shuddered, was repelled by the spell, and fell onto the bottle on its back.
At the end of the day, there were no wounds on his body, but he was already dead.
The little wizards' eyes were wide open, and some of them covered their mouths, trying hard to suppress their exclamations.
"It feels terrible to witness the withering of life - even for a life like a spider, Avada Kedavra has not broken the curse - with the exception of one person," Tom looked at the students and said calmly, "This is black magic
, this is what I want to teach you to resist."
Tom looked at the students and said in a low voice, "The most important thing is that you must always be vigilant and never let down. The enemy has already come to us. You must remember not to be fooled by its rhetoric!
Write it down!"
The little wizards wrote this sentence in their notebooks one after another, but how effective it will be remains to be seen.
Victoria was writing furiously in the audience, and at the same time, she thought in her mind that what Professor Lockhart said is really right! I will discuss it with Diary Senior when I get back...
The atmosphere in the classroom was solemn. Peggy noticed this emotion, and she was a little confused: They seemed sad? Why?
She poked her deskmate and asked: "Why do you look a little sad? Is it because the spider is dead? But all living things are mortal? And I just saw that you seemed to be afraid of it."
Her voice was not loud, but many people heard it. The little boy at the same table didn't know how to answer, so he could only express hesitantly that he didn't know either.
"Because of reverence for life." Tom answered Peggy's question, but this sentence could not answer Peggy's doubts.
She nodded, indicating that she understood. According to her experience, she could not inquire further at this time: it would make people unhappy, especially Professor Lockhart. Peggy did not care what ordinary classmates thought.
But Professor Lockhart can really affect your life at school, so you have to behave in a way that makes him happy.
Tom re-examined the girl he had known during the summer vacation - although he had known her for more than two months, he had not had much contact with her. His impression of her was nothing more than: the apple of his father's eye, beautiful
The little princess, the clever and studious little witch.
But today, his understanding of Peggy changed slightly.
The topic was brought to an end, and Tom lightly knocked on the desk.
"Okay, I believe you all have an intuitive understanding of the killing curse. Now I am going to teach you two practical spells to give you a certain degree of self-protection."
Tom released another spider. This time, he learned his lesson and conjured up a few ribbons in advance to tie the demonstration spider tightly like a crab.
"Iron Armor Spell, a somewhat complicated but very easy to use spell. This spell is a spell that can resist many kinds of spells. It can create a magical barrier to deflect spells and physical entities, thereby protecting a specific person or a specific area.
.It may be hard for you to imagine that many adult wizards, even those working in the Ministry of Magic, cannot recite a decent Iron Armor Curse."
Tom sighed, what he said was true. During the Second Wizarding War, the curse-proof hats and curse-proof cloaks launched by Fred brother's Weasley's Wizard Wheezes became popular because they came with the Iron Armor Curse.
It's really unbelievable that so many wizards don't even master this spell. No wonder the wizarding world wants to hide themselves.
Tom cast an iron armor spell on the bound spider, then held a heavy textbook three feet above the spider. When he let go, the book fell towards the spider.
Many little wizards couldn't help but close their eyes. They seemed to have seen the scene of the spider being smashed, and the juice was spraying everywhere, but there was only a bang and the sound of the book falling on the ground, but there was no sound of the spider being smashed.
The little wizards opened their eyes and saw that the spider was safe and sound, and the book was lying on the ground.
"This is the Iron Armor Curse." Tom bent down to pick up the textbook and demonstrated it to them again. This time everyone stared intently at the falling textbook, watching it being blocked by a small transparent shield in mid-air and being bounced.
Arrived to the side.
After demonstrating the Iron Armor Charm, Tom put the spider back into the cage. Then, he poked the podium with his wand, and the podium turned into a human-shaped puppet with a wooden sword in his hand.
"The Iron Armor Spell can be used for defense. I will teach you another offensive spell: the Disarming Spell."
He motioned to the little wizards to open their eyes wide and watch as he walked up to the puppet and flicked his wand: "Expelliarmus!"
The puppet leaned back and the wooden sword in his hand flew out.
"The disarming spell is a spell that can cause weapons or any items to fly out of the opponent's hands - Expelliarmus!" Tom suddenly used the disarming spell on a girl in the back row, knocking the makeup mirror out of her hand.
"Learning to put on makeup too early is bad for your skin, and you don't need to put on makeup to take my class."
Tom continued: "Disarming spells are commonly used in wizard duels. The main purpose is to make the opponent lose their wand, thereby losing a certain amount of attack power. But does losing the wand mean that the opponent has lost his resistance?"
He walked up to the puppet, knocked it to the ground with a left hook, and then pointed at the fallen puppet with his empty hand: "Split into pieces!"
The puppet cracked immediately. The severely damaged puppet could not maintain its deformation and restored the appearance of the podium, but the podium was also dismantled into parts by Tom.
"Restore as before!" The podium was restored to its original appearance.
"Being disarmed is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that you have lost your fighting spirit. You don't have a wand. You can still cast spells without a wand, and you still have your fists!" Tom motioned to the little wizards to record the key points of these two spells.
During the rest of the class, the students were busy taking notes, recording the Unforgivable Curse and the two protective spells given by Tom. Tom looked at the timer and found that there were only twenty minutes left before the end of get out of class.
He immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, students, stop what you are doing for a moment. Next, I will talk about the course schedule for this school year."
"As we all know, the other subjects in Hogwarts are basically determined by a final exam. I have reservations about this. This school year's Defense Against the Dark Arts will be based on your usual grades, group assignments and several major exams to determine your final results.
score."
"Group work accounts for 20%, 2-3 people cooperate, and finally submit a paper. The paper accounts for 10%, thesis defense accounts for 10%, and the usual grades account for 30% - refers to those classroom quizzes, mid-term and final
The exams each account for 25% of the score. Originally, I wanted to add phased testing, but then I thought about it and decided not to. There are already enough exams..."
Tom was talking to himself, and the little wizards in the audience were shocked: What is this! There are too many things in this course!
Tom didn't care what the little wizards thought. In his opinion, the education method at Hogwarts was somewhat undesirable. You must know that the examination cycle at Hogwarts is calculated based on the academic year: there is only one test at the end of the academic year!
Although there are usually after-school homework, how can the after-school homework be as stressful as the exam? Only by reviewing for the exam over and over again can students remember the knowledge - not to mention that the exam format prepared by Tom is not a simple written test.
.Tom never intends to engage in exam-oriented education, he wants to engage in real quality education, that is, the combination of theory and knowledge.
"That's it for this class. Class is over! Today's homework is to continue reading. By the way, Miss Grossman will stay here for a while."