Jessica's POV ✨

As Fred and I walked into the Great Hall, I noticed almost every Slytherin was giving me dirty looks. Guess I'm not going to be at any of their party's soon. I then spotted Hermione and Ginny sitting at the end of the table and decided to go sit with them and update them on what happened.

Fred and I parted our ways as he went to go sit with Lee, George Harry and Ron. I sat across from the two girls who seemed to barely notice my arrival and continued talking about the defence against the dark arts teacher, reminding me that I have that subject tomorrow.

"Morning ladies. I have exciting news!" I grinned as both girls turned to face me, putting an end to their convo.

"I broke up with Patrick last night." I watched smiles grow on both of their faces as I told them. "And, on the way to breakfast, Adrien Pucey was being a total arse about it, causing me to slap him, Fred to punch him in the face and me to kick him in the balls." I giggled as Ginny bounced in her seat before launching herself across the table engulfing me in a bear hug.

"Oh my god, that explains why all the Slytherins are glaring at us. I wondered why they were more miserable than usual." Hermione said as she pulled Ginny off me and back onto her seat. I nodded and looked towards Fred who already happened to be looking directly at me.

I felt my cheeks heat up and I quickly looked away before grabbing a piece of toast and chatting to Ginny and Hermione about last night in more detail. I won't mention the kiss. It doesn't mean anything anyway. I don't think...

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"Alastor Moody. Ex auror, Ministry malcontent. Your new defence against the dark arts teacher. I am here because Dumbledore asked me goodbye, the end!" The man grumbled as he wrote his name on the blackboard, his fake eye was flicking in all directions, making me uncomfortable. I looked at George who seemed to be feeling the same way.

"When it comes to the dark arts I believe in a more practical approach. First. Who can tell me how many unforgivable curses there are?" The man looked around the classroom waiting for a reply.

"Three sir." Alecia Spinnet replied, looking down at her desk. Professor Moody turned to the blackboard and began writing UNFORGIVABLE. "They are given the name unforgivable because the use of any one of them will-"

"Earn you a one-way ticket to Azkaban." He spoke above Alecia while aggressively writing on the board.

"Now, the Ministry says you shouldn't be allowed to see what these curses do," he turned to face the class. " I SAY DIFFERENT! YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP AGAINST, AND YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED." Mad-eye yelled causing me to jump in fright.

"So, which curse should we see first? WEASLEY!" Professor Moody stood in front of George and I's desk. George looked up at mad-eye and nodded.

"Stand."

Without any hesitation George stood up. "Give us a curse."

"Well there's the imperius curse..." Mad-eye nodded rapidly as he limped to his desk and took a massive eight legged insect out of a jar, placing it on his hand.

"Imperio,"

Suddenly the spider flew out of Moodys hand as he made it go in all sorts of directions. "Talented isn't it? What can I do next? I could, throw her out the window, drown herself?" Mad-eye swiftly brought the spider back onto his hand before turning his attention towards me.

"WOOD! Give me a second curse." He hobbled towards my desk and I slowly stood up, hoping that what I thought was going to happen, wasn't going to happen.

"Um, there's the c-cruciatus curse," I stuttered, thinking back to what happened to me at the Quidditch World Cup.

"Correct! Correct!" He excitedly put the large insect on my side of the desk.

"Crucio,"

The infect began twitching its legs and letting out high pitched squeals. I suddenly felt a sweat building up on my forehead and I felt tears building up in my eyes. I felt like my head was spinning like a spinning top as I slumped down in my chair and burst into tears, forgetting that everyone in class was staring at me.

I'm not going to embarrass my self any longer. I stood up and picked up my book and my wand, before quickly walking out the classroom, not wanting to talk to anyone.

I quickly walked to the the girls bathroom and locked myself in a cubicle. I leaned against the stall door and collapsed down to the ground. My breathing quickened and started becoming uneven as I got flashbacks of the cruciatus curse. I hugged my knees as my whole body shook.

George's POV ✨

I watched Jess rush out the classroom with tears rushing down her face. I looked over at Professor Moody, "Could I just-"

"On you go son."

I nodded and picked up my book before running out the classroom hoping to catch up with her.

"Hey Georgie! You told me you didn't have a free period! Where are you running off to?" I stopped running and turned round to see Fred running towards me.

"It's Jess, in D.A.D.A, Moody was showing us the three unforgivable curses on a large insect. Long story short he put the insect under the cruciatus curse on Jess's desk. And she ran out the classroom in floods of tears." I looked around me frantically, hoping that I would see Jess sitting somewhere.

"I know where she is. I'll go see if she is okay, you just go back to DADA." Fred ran off towards the girls bathroom. I am not going back to class when Jess is sitting somewhere distraught. I waited for a few minutes before going after Fred into the girls bathroom.

Jessica's POV ✨

I lifted my head up off my knees as I heard someone running into the bathroom. I pulled myself up off the ground And stood with my hands pushed against both walls of the cubicle, trying to control my breathing.

"Jess? Jess, are you in here? It's Fred. Please come out."

Fred? How did he know I'd be in here? I slowly removed one of my hands off the wall and unlocked the cubicle before stumbling out the stall.

"It's okay Jess, it's ok, you're safe here, nobody's going to hurt you. I'm here." Fred wrapped his arms around me and stroked my hair. He helped me focus on my breathing for a couple minutes before George came running in.

The three of us sat in the bathroom until the bell went. We then decided to go back to the common room and sit there for a while, skipping the rest of our classes for the day.

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