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== Synopsis ==
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[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Professor Snape]], as usual, is in a bad mood. His confrontation with [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alastor Moody|Professor Moody]] must have been galling. Additionally, it is common belief that Snape has long sought the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Defence Against the Dark Arts|Defence Against The Dark Arts]] position. Snape also seems to fear Moody, resulting in him retaliating against the students. <!-- particularly Neville --> <!-- Well, he's a pretty easy target!-->The students eagerly await Professor Moody's class, except Hermione, who arrives from the library just in time. Moody says the class has studied Dark creatures, but they are deficient in curses. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] guidelines only allow ''counter''-curses to be taught until sixth year. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]] wants the fourth years to understand what they may be up against. Professor Moody will demonstrate the three [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Unforgivable Curses|Unforgivable Curses]]. All are illegal to use against humans under any circumstance. First, the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Imperio|Imperius]] curse. Moody casts it on a spider, forcing it to dance. This curse, Moody says, makes it difficult to tell who is truly Dark and who is being controlled by magic.
 
Moody then demonstrates the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Crucio|Cruciatus]] curse. He [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Engorgio|enlarges]] another spider and casts Crucio on it. The spider is obviously in extreme pain, and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Neville Longbottom|Neville]] becomes distressed watching it. Moody releases it. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] mentions [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Avada Kedavra|the Killing Curse]]. In a jet of green light, another spider simply dies. Only one person is known to have survived that particular curse: [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry Potter]]. For Harry, who remembers the green flash and the rushing noise, this curse is a revelation.
 
After class, Moody pulls the still-shaken Neville aside, then tells Harry, he needs to know (the implication being that he should know about the curse that killed his parents). Moody then takes Neville to his office for a cup of tea. When the Trio return to the common room later, Neville is reading a book Professor Moody gave him, titled ''Magical Mediterranean Water-Plants and Their Properties''. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pomona Sprout|Professor Sprout]] apparently had told Moody that Neville is adept at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Herbology|Herbology]].
 
Harry and Ron tackle their difficult [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Divination|Divination]] homework, finally reverting to inventing their own outlandish predictions. Harry notices [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fred and George Weasley|the Twins]] huddled over a parchment. George cautions Fred, "No, that sounds like we're accusing him. Got to be careful." Hermione returns from the library intending to start an organization she calls [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/S.P.E.W.|S.P.E.W.: the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare]]. She coerces Harry and Ron into being officers. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hedwig|Hedwig]] delivers a message from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius Black]]. Harry's painful scar and other events concerns him - he is returning to England. Harry frets, fearing he has put Sirius in danger by complaining about his scar. If Sirius is captured, Harry would never forgive himself.
 
== Analysis ==
 
The plot advances in various ways. First, Professor Moody further demonstrates his idiosyncratic teaching style and a willingness to flout Ministry regulations, as well as an awareness and sensitivity towards students. His decision to teach the three "Unforgivable Curses" has a particularly profound effect on two students: Harry and Neville. Realizing that the Cruciatus Curse demonstration has visibly upset Neville, Moody takes him aside after class and calms him down. Moody also checks on Harry, whose parents he knows were killed with the Avada Kedavra curse that nearly took Harry's life, branding him with a scar, though Harry seems less shaken than Neville. Readers will note that Moody describes the Avada Kedavra curse as killing its victim without leaving any mark. However, Harry's scar was caused by the lethal curse. This is most likely the after effect of the curse rebounding off Harry's forehead, deflected by the protection Harry's mother's death had created.
 
Also, Neville, who is rarely, if ever, singled out for being good at anything, is extremely flattered and grateful when Moody gives him the Herbology book after being told by Professor Sprout that Neville has an aptitude for this subject. Harry thinks that Moody's gesture is similar to what Professor Lupin would have done.
 
Snape's behavior here is revealing. Rather than the contempt and disrespect he usually heaps on the current Defensive Arts teacher, a position Snape has long coveted but is routinely denied, he appears to show cautious fear and maintains a respectful distance from the crusty, former [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Auror|Auror]]. Moody's earlier sarcastic remark regarding Snape being an "old friend" hints at an unresolved history between them, most likely relating to Snape's [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Death Eaters|Death Eater]] past. Typically, Snape vents his frustration on his hapless students.
 
Also, Sirius, concerned about Harry's safety, is returning to England with [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Buckbeak|Buckbeak]], though Harry rightly fears he may have endangered his godfather by writing to him about his scar hurting. And though Sirius' concern and devotion for his godson is commendable and shows how much he loves Harry, his decision seems rather reckless; just how Sirius can help Harry while remaining a hunted fugitive is uncertain, and it only causes Harry even more stress and turmoil.
 
Finally, Hermione's crusade to advocate [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/House Elf|House-elf]] rights (that they actually have never wanted) formally begins in this chapter. And rather than childishly protesting with a hunger strike, she instead adopts a more mature and realistic approach by forming a society as an instrument for change. We can expect to see S.P.E.W. (or the House-Elf Liberation Front as Ron later refers to it) appear in subsequent books. And though it will become a smaller subplot, Hermione continues to believe, quite rightly, that House-elves are a slave caste and should be freed. She fails to consider, however, that freedom must be carefully orchestrated if Elves are to survive and thrive without discrimination or retribution within the Wizarding world. Simply turning loose what most wizards consider an inferior race would almost certainly create extreme hardship for that race. It will take a huge effort to realign both the general Wizarding population's attitude and the House-elves' thinking to accept House-elves as equal and free agents.
 
Hermione should perhaps study how emancipated slaves fared following the American Civil War in the mid-1860s. Although former slaves were now free U.S. citizens, they struggled against severe discrimination, hatred, violence, and poverty while attempting to assimilate into a white, patriarchal-dominated society, all while lacking (and being denied) adequate education, jobs, basic civil rights, and other opportunities. As in the Wizarding world, many other racial groups were also discriminated against. However, much like other non-human magical folk in wizard society, these particular ethnic groups were never enslaved and most had some rudimentary education. Immigrants also tended to establish protective communities while gradually integrating themselves into American culture, unlike freed slaves who created a sudden, chaotic influx into a new social order in which there was little oversight, resulting in extensive corruption, abuse, and exploitation. Over a century later, these struggles are still existent in the Muggle world. We can surmise that this would be similar to what House-elves would experience; additionally, as the Wizarding world seems to change more slowly than the Muggle world in a number of ways, this untenable situation could drag on for many centuries.
 
== Questions ==