A Change To The Curriculum

[Amycus Carrow]

September 3rd. Seventh-year Dark Arts class.

Amycus carrow stepped out of his office and glared down with undisguised contempt at the class of seventh-years, from an assortment of the four houses, gathered before him. Truth be told, he didn't much care for the teaching job he and his sister had been handed - the punishment aspect of the role aside - but it was what the Dark Lord wished, and they both knew better than to argue with him. The remains of the last person who had weren't pretty.

“I bet yeh all used to this class as ‘Defence’ against the Dark Arts,” the death-eater began, robes swirling behind him as he descended the steps into the classroom, and began pacing in front of the students, his tiny pig-like eyes glowering at those who dared to look back at him. One ginger Hufflepuff, in particular, seemed to be making a point of returning his glare, and the male Carrow mentally marked her as a potential troublemaker. “This year, yeh won’t be learning any of that. No more defence - yeh going to be learning about the Dark Arts. All the spells and curses, how to use them –" he stopped and leant forward slightly, leering nastily at the class "– and yeh get to practice on snivelling little first-years.”

[Cho Chang]

Cho Chang raised her hand but instead of waiting for Professor Carrow to call on her she called out, "Sir, how is this proper curriculum if we're learning improper lessons and illegal sorcery?" Cho found it a valid question, very straight foward. It was true, she was slightly annoyed that Professor Carrow was making them use illegal curses and not only use them but use them on other students. It was plain cruel in her opinion.

[Neville Longbottom]

"That's bloody inhumane!"
Unlike Cho, Neville wasn't going to be so formal in addressing his new "proffesor." The brown-eyed Gryffindor was standing up from his seat with his fists clenched, glaring with an intense gaze at the Carrow brother. "There is no way any of us will practice curses, especially on the first-years!" he shot back defiantly. If he were younger, he would never dream of standing up to anybody, let alone a Death Eater. But these were dark times he was staring at, and he was a new person. He looked at the older male with a look of pure disgust. "We came here to learn. Not to be trained to be some lowly servants like you."

[Amycus Carrow]

(ooc: thanks Neville; I was hoping you'd post in here ^^)

The leer Amycus turned towards the Ravenclaw who'd dared to speak up was decidedly unpleasant as he leaned towards her, pig-like eyes glinting maliciously. "Yeh seem to have missed, girlie, that Minister fer Magic Thicknesse has gorn and made the curses are legal. Yeh just going to have to get used to the laws changing now that we're in charge." It was no secret that Thicknesse and the Death Eaters were practically hand-in-hand nowadays, although the reason remained largely unknown.

When the Gryffindor boy spoke up, however, Amycus whipped around angrily. Longbottom, of course; his parents had made more trouble than they were worth in the previous war, too. "Yeh're going to do what yeh're told!" he thundered, almost loudly enough to momentarily deafen Chang, whom he still stood over. A couple of paces took him over to Longbottom's desk instead, but before he could continue his diatribe against Neville, the Hufflepuff girl he'd noticed before, seated only a couple of desks back, was also rising to her feet in agreement. Before he began to seriously lose control of the class, Amycus's lashed out at Neville, his knife flashing as it scored a deep gash along the boy's face, drawing blood. Behind them, Susan had frozen half way through the motion of standing up.

"Yeh listen to me," he growled, hateful eyes fixated on Neville. "In me classroom, yeh do what yeh're told, just like with any other professor, or I'll see that yeh regret it - understand?"

(ooc: This is about where we need a Crabbe or Goyle who can approve of Amycus' methods )

[Cho Chang]

"But, sir!" said Cho "It's extremely innapropriate! Obviously this isn't the Hogwarts it's supposed to be! It's absolutely ridiculous! It's cruel! On other students! It's just pathetic! How can you live with yourself?!?! You know some of us are actuallly civilized!" Cho's eyes swam with hatred and anger. Other students?!?!