Alice's Travels

Alice tossed and tossed for a long time before cleaning the cauldron to Snape's satisfaction, and then went back one by one until very late. In addition to continuing to do homework, she was so sleepy that she couldn't keep her eyes open the next day.

She ran into Neville in the corridor on her way to class, looking refreshed with a book under his arm.

"Hi, Alice," Neville greeted briskly, "good morning, it's a lovely day today, isn't it?"

Alice nodded and said with a smile, "How was it yesterday?"

"I'm fine, thank you. Professor Moody just lent me a book to read—" Neville held up the book in his hand, and said with joy and a rare hint of pride in his tone, "It should be Si Professor Prout told him that I was very good at herbalism and he thought I would like the book - and I did, as a matter of fact."

Alice saw the title of the book clearly: "Mediterranean Magical Aquatic Plants and Their Properties".

She was a little surprised that Moody was such a thoughtful and considerate person, and considered Neville so understandingly - it was really rare that he didn't praise him in a big way, but also gave him encouragement and confidence invisibly.

"It's good that you like it, and Professor Moody must be very happy." Alice finally said, smiled slightly and rushed to class.

As the two weeks passed, Alice's image of Moody had changed back and forth several times.

He looks like a genius - it's hard to believe that someone who can show such kindness to Neville would ask students to take turns using the Imperius Curse in class - just to demonstrate its magic power and see if the students can resist it its impact.

Alice didn't know whether it was because he favored Gryffindor and hated Slytherin—but he also wanted to use the Imperius Curse on the students of Gryffindor, or because he actually had paranoia and personality disorder. Schizophrenia, the brain is really broken-in short, when he made this request, Alice immediately clenched her fists and walked out of the classroom without looking back.

She pursed her lips tightly, her face was colder than ever.

"But—but you said it was illegal to use it on other people, Professor—" Hermione said hesitantly, frowning.

Moody's fake eyes, which were constantly turning and looking at the students, fixed on Hermione, stared at her sinisterly and said, "If you are willing to learn in a crueler way-waiting for someone to say this spell to you, put You're in total control - that's fine. I agree. You can go."

Hermione's face turned pale, and her brows furrowed.

Harry glanced at her and slid sideways, keeping Hermione behind.

"Dumbledore wants you to get a feel for—" Moody went on, "so who to start with?"

His false eyes swiveled quickly to fix on the Slytherin students, who flinched in unison.

Alice noticed Moody's eyes rolling over Malfoy and herself, and she stepped out of the crowd before he could speak.

Malfoy's fingers moved, and then fell to his side again, his eyes followed Alice closely.

"Why don't you teach us the magic of defense directly, Professor?" Alice said in a calm tone as much as possible.

"It's a test of your willpower—" Moody said gruffly, staring at her with his false eyes unblinking, "I'm just going to teach you how to resist—only after you experience it for yourself... "

"Let's start with you." Moody didn't give Alice any more time to choose, he directly raised his wand and aimed at Alice, "The soul is out of body!"

Alice suddenly felt as if her soul was about to float out of her body, and her brain suddenly became blank—everything around her disappeared, empty—there was nothing but her light and floating self immersed in a formless , In the hazy misty fairyland.

A void.

Then, a voice seemed to come from a distant corner, asking her to do something—to do what?

That voice was speaking to her, ordering——as if a sudden shock, her soul was pulled back into her body, her brown eyes regained consciousness from the depths of the darkness, and Alice suddenly woke up.

Everything around came back, and Alice saw Moody standing opposite, pointing at herself with his wand.Her face was pale as if she had lost all strength, and emotions of anger, disgust, and humiliation surged up in an instant, and Alice immediately lowered her eyes to cover her sight.

"Look folks, she's done it!" said Moody in a vehement tone, his fake eyes twirling quickly and then locked on to Alice. "You beat it the first time! Very good, Ah Terman! They're not trying to control you so easily! Now let's try again, and the rest of you watch out—look her in the eye, that's the point—"

Moody's fanatical gaze focused on Alice, and she raised her head to meet her without fear, "I refuse."

"What are you talking about, kid—" Moody seemed to freeze for a second, and said, limping a few steps closer to her.

Malfoy clenched his fists, Hermione looked over worriedly, Harry and Ron stared at Alice with wide eyes.

"I refuse to conduct the second experiment," Alice said firmly, "I think this is my freedom, and the professor—Principal Dumbledore will agree."

Moody's face darkened, and he glared at her viciously with false eyes, "Stupid girl! Don't you think about other people? Don't you think that when others deal with you, there are only these methods..."

"I'm not an Auror, Professor." Alice said, looking him straight in the eye, "but I'm sorry, I don't feel well - I have to go to the hospital, will you approve?"

Moody stared at her darkly for a moment before saying, "You can go."

Alice immediately turned around and pulled Malfoy out of the crowd, "Please kind Malfoy give me a ride." After speaking, she pulled his robe and left the classroom without looking back.

"What did you drag me out for—" Once outside, Malfoy broke free from Alice's hand.

"Do you want to be the subject of the Imperius Curse?" Alice looked at him coldly and said, "Or do you want to continue the unfinished lesson from last time?"

Ignoring her cold eyes, Malfoy crossed his arms and said with a mocking arc of his mouth, "Why don't you bring your Gryffindor friends out too? How sad they'll be to see you go— —”

"They're too far away from me, and there are too many people to take anyone away—" Alice continued to speak calmly under Malfoy's staring gaze, "Besides, I don't need to worry about Hermione and the others."

"I don't need you to meddle at all!" Malfoy closed the corner of his mouth and said angrily, "Who allowed you to meddle in your own business—"

"You can choose to go back, now," said Alice, turning away and walking. "Moody will be glad he has another guinea pig."

Malfoy hurried after him, "Go back? Do you take me for a fool—"

"Go ahead, you said it yourself--I didn't say it," said Alice.

"You—" Malfoy said angrily, "Are you still going to the hospital?"

"Of course not—" Alice stopped, looked at him with a look of foolishness and said, "Don't go back to the dormitory to sleep after class is over—do you have anything else to do?"

Malfoy's pale face flushed slightly with anger, and he said angrily, "No!"

He raised his feet and walked quickly to the front, his robe whistling like the wind.Alice walked slowly behind.

The next day, Ron, Hermione, and Harry found Alice in the corner of the library and sat down immediately.

"I can't believe you left just like that yesterday -" Ron whispered in a shocked tone, sitting next to Alice and leaning his head in. "How dare you talk to Moody like that!"

"How did you go?" Alice frowned and asked Hermione and Harry who were opposite.

"Everyone was given the Imperius Curse," said Hermione quickly, "and Harry was tested four times in a row—"

"What!" Alice opened her eyes wide, "Why?"

"I didn't quite resist the first time," Harry said. "He tried it on me four times until I could shake it off."

"This is obviously nonsense!" Alice said coldly, "Even if he is a teacher, he can't treat the students so casually!"

"Didn't you hear the tone of his voice? If you don't want someone to say that spell over you in the future—to keep you completely in your hands—" Ron said roughly, imitating Moody's voice, "God knows, He thought we were going to be attacked at any moment!"

"Hmph," Alice sneered, "his memory is still around ten years ago—do I have to thank him, at least he didn't test the effect of the Cruciatus Curse on us so that we can experience the war in those days?" How cruel? To teach students well, you have to do this once, right?"

Ron nodded sympathetically. "He's almost paranoid - no wonder they're so eager to kick him out of the Ministry."

"But there's nothing we can do about it—" said Harry, "he's got Dumbledore's approval."

Alice frowned. Dumbledore would not be the one to condone Moody's crazy behavior, unless—something bad was about to happen, and he was telling everyone to take precautions...

"What the hell, who has the time to study how to resist the Imperius Curse?" Ron muttered, "We have so much to do, and a lot of Transfiguration homework, we don't have time to—"

"Professor McGonagall is preparing us for the owl exam!" said Hermione. "This is very important to everyone!"

"Come on, Hermione," muttered Ron, "McGonagall has already praised you—"

"The only Miss Granger in the class who can turn a hedgehog into a satisfying pincushion—" Ron squealed, "you're awesome!"

Hermione shot him an instant look, and Harry said, "Is your next class - I mean Defense Against the Dark Arts, Alice?"

"Of course—I'll sit back as much as I can," said Alice quickly, "as long as he doesn't cast the Unforgivable Curse on me, I'll be fine in class." No offense to me, no offense to me.

"I don't think he will," said Hermione. "Whatever his temper may be, Moody is always a good Auror."