Chapter 445: Avada Kedavra (Edited)

A sly look crossed Fish's face, he had just said that on purpose, the purpose was to stimulate Moody and prepare him for future fights... he didn't forget his main purpose.

The cat didn't care about things like Unforgivable Curses, to Fish, those spells that didn't reach him were nowhere near as threatening as Professor McGonagall's transformation spell.

It was the fact that he could cast the Fiendfyre Curse that posed a bit of a problem, as Fish had not yet figured out how to make it "rain".

Moody also noticed that Fish seemed to be toying with him on purpose, but in his current situation, he couldn't afford to confront the puss, and he still had to gather information from Fish, so he could only ignore the cat....

"Is that so? Then you seem to have a lot of willpower, Fish."

Moody endured the unhappiness and praised him with a calm appearance on the surface.

Then he turned to the rest of the class, "Does anyone else know the other two Unforgivable Curses?"

Hermione raised her hand, as did Neville and, after a moment's thought, Fish raised his hand as well.

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The blue magic eye made a sweep, Moody hesitated for a couple of seconds, then jumped decisively on Fish, and Hermione next to Fish, and finally stopped on Neville.

"There's a... Cruciatus Curse..." said Neville softly but clearly.

Moody rolled his normal eye and looked at Neville seriously for a while.

"You're Longbottom, aren't you?" He said, the magic eye lowered to check the list.

Neville nodded nervously, but Moody didn't ask anything else. He turned his back to the class, pulled a second spider out of the glass jar and placed it on the podium.

"The Cruciatus Curse." Moody said, "You need to get a little closer so you can see it clearly" He pointed his wand at the spider "Angorgio!"

The spider quickly swelled up and became larger than an adult's hand. Ron, who had a trauma with spiders, could no longer maintain his composure and moved his chair as far away from Moody's podium as possible with a grimace of pain on his face.

Moody raised his wand again, pointed it at the spider and said quietly, "Crucio."

Fish blinked, he too remembered the spell, but had dodged it at the time.

"I thought it was the Explosive Charm..." he muttered in a whisper to Hermione beside him.

But Hermione had no time for Fish, she, like the other students, stared at the podium in horror.

The spider on the podium was writhing violently and, although it made no sound, they could all see that it was suffering terribly.

Since most bugs are unable to communicate with Fish due to their lack of intelligence and emotion, and since Fish was known for hunting bugs or pouncing on them for fun, as well as his encounter with the Acromantulas, he did not react to Moody's actions....

He still felt that the Cruciatus Curse was not as threatening as the Explosive Charm.

But seeing Hermione's terrified look, Fish took her hand without hesitation and comforted her gently, "Are you all right, Hermione?"

Hermione sketched a smile, nodded her head, and then shook it....

Fish was confused, not knowing what he meant by nodding and then shaking his head.

But by then, Moody had finished casting the spell, returned the spider to its original size and put it back in the bottle.

"Extreme pain." Moody whispered, "If you could use the Cruciatus Curse, you wouldn't need a thumbtack or a knife to torture someone...this Curse was also very popular at one time."

Fish noticed that Neville, who had just answered the question, was pale and looked about to faint at any moment.

"Okay... Does anyone else know what the last unforgivable curse is?"

Moody said as he turned his magical eye towards Harry, or to be precise, towards the lightning shaped scar on Harry's forehead.

Harry, who had met his gaze with the magical eye, already had a suspicion.

This time, it was finally Hermione's turn to answer the question.

"Avada Kedavra," she whispered.

The cat scratched his head, not quite understanding the classification of these spells.

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Of course, he's seen the Avada Kedavra curse before, and that spell brought him a sense of crisis, but....

It didn't go so far as to hit him...

Fish didn't understand why those three spells were called Unforgivable Curses, when they were far less threatening than Professor McGonagall's Fiendfyre Curse, Blast Spell, and Transformation Spell.

"Ah," Moody on stage twisted the corners of his mouth into a slight smile, "Yes, this is the last and most powerful Curse. The Avada Kedavra Curse...the Killing Curse."

He took the third spider out of the bottle and placed it on the podium.

The spider seemed to sense the danger and moved its eight long, slender legs to escape.

Moody raised his wand and roared, "Avada Kedavra!"

There was a flash of bright green light, Fish's tail fur burst unconsciously, he jumped to his feet, his whole body tensed, the cat ears on his head pressed against him, and his mouth opened slightly....

"Ja~"

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At that moment, Fish seemed to understand why this spell was classified as an Unforgivable Curse.

When he had encountered the Avada Kedavra before, he had been in the middle of a fight, and although he had felt threatened, he hadn't worried too much. But now, just watching from the sidelines could make him feel such a strong sense of crisis... that Fish finally began to take the spell seriously.

At the podium, the spider rolled over, lying face up on the table, not a scratch on its body, but no matter who it was, they knew it was dead.

Moody shot a glance at Fish, who had risen, and reached out to sweep the dead spider off the table and onto the floor.

"Very dangerous," he said calmly, "And there's no cure, no way to resist it. As far as anyone knows, there is only one person who has escaped the spell, and he is sitting among you right now."

Both of Moody's eyes looked at Harry, and so did everyone else's.

The stares made Harry feel slightly uncomfortable and he stared at the empty podium, doing his best to look calm.

Fortunately, Professor Moody soon spoke again, "The Avada Kedavra Curse requires very strong magical power as a base, you can all take out your wands, point them at me and recite the spell, I suspect at best I'll only get a nosebleed."

He paused, not quite sure, "Fish may have the power to kill me, if what I've heard is true, and of course, you wouldn't want to try this spell on someone out of curiosity."

Barty (son) had dug a hole for Fish here, from what he had gathered, Fish was quite rebellious, and he had tried before, the more Fish was not allowed to do, the more he was interested.

In addition to the powerful magical power, Avada Kedavra also needs a strong desire to kill the opponent. If Fish tries to use Avada Kedavra because of his own words, even if the target is just a worm, he will use it again and again. In the middle, addicted to the power of dark magic, it will be much easier for Voldemort to recruit Fish in the future.

What he didn't know was that Fish preferred to use his claws and teeth to kill his prey rather than his spells, and that the cat, though capricious, now knew more or less what was important, so his plan was doomed to failure.