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ooier than ual, as curtas had been drawn over the dows, and was lit by candlelight new pictures adorned the walls, any of the shog people who appeared to be pa, sportg grisly juries or stranly ntorted body parts nobody spoke as they settled down, lookg around at the shadowy, grue pictures
”i have not asked you to take out your books,” said snape, closg the door and ovg to face the css fro behd his desk herione hastily dropped her py of nfrontg the faceless back to her bag and stowed it under her chair ”i wish to speak to you, and i want your fullest attention”
his bck eyes roved over their upturned faces, lrg for a fraction of a send lonr on harry39s than anyone else39s
”you have had five teachers this subject far, i believe”
you believe like you haven39t watched the all e and go, hopg you39d be next, thought harry scathgly
naturally, these teachers will all have had their own thods and priorities given this nfion i a surprised any of you scraped an owl this subject i shall be even ore surprised if all of you ana to keep up with the newt work, which will be ore advanced”
snape set off around the ed of the roo, speakg now a lower voice the css craned their necks to keep hi view the dark arts,” said snape, ”are any, varied, ever-changg, and eternal fightg the is like fightg a any-headed onster, which, each ti a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before you are fightg that which is unfixed, utatg, destructible”
harry stared at snape it was surely one thg to respect the
dark arts as a danro eney, another to speak of the, as snape was dog, with a lovg caress his voice?
”your defenses,” said snape, a little louder, ”t therefore be as flexible and ventive as rhe arts you seek to undo these pictures - he dicated a few of the as he swept past - ”give a fair representation of what happens to those who suffer, for stance, the cruciat curse” - he waved a hand toward a witch who was clearly shriekg agony - ”feel the dentor39s kiss” - a wizard lyg huddled and bnk-eyed, sped agast a wall - ”or provoke the aggression of the feri” - a bloody ass upon ground
”has an feri been seen, then?” said parvati patil a high pitched voice ”is it defite, is he g the?”
”the dark lord has ed feri the past,” said snape, ”which ans you would be well-advised to assu he ight e the aga now ”
he set off aga around the other side of the cssroo toward his desk, and aga, they watched hi as he walked, his dark robes billog behd hi ,
” you are, i believe, plete novices the e of nonverbal spells what is the advanta of a nonverbal spell?”
herione39s hand shot to the air snape took his ti lookg around at everybody else, akg sure he had no choice, before sayg curtly, ”very well - iss granr?”
”your adversary has no warng about what kd of agic you39re about to perfor,” said herione, ”which gives you a split-send advanta”
”an answer pied alost word for word fro the standard book of spells, grade six,” said snape disissively over the rner, alfoy ered, ”but rrect essentials yes, those who progress g agic without shoutg cantations ga an elent of surprise their spell-castg not all wizards can do this, of urse it is a estion of ncentration and d power which ” -
his gaze lred alicioly upon harry once ore - ”ck”
harry knew snape was thkg of their disastro oncy lesns of the previo year he refed to drop his gaze, but glowered at snape until snape looked away
”you will now divide,” snape went on, ”to pairs one partner will attept jx the other without speakg the other will attept to repel the jx eal silence carry on”
although snape did not know it, harry had taught at least half the css everyone who had been a ber of the da how to perfor a shield char the previo year none of the had ever cast the char without speakg, however a reanable aount of cheatg ensued any people were rely whisperg the cantation stead of sayg it aloud typically, ten utes to the lesn herione anad to repel neville39s uttered jelly-legs jx without utterg a sgle word, a feat that would surely have earned her enty pots for gryffdor fro any reanable teacher, thought harry bitterly, but which snape ignored he
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