Chapter 20
Looking at kids faces, which looked in a trance, Alan asked, "So, the most important thing you all need to understand is that there's no most powerful spell in this world. The caster of that spell could be powerful, which means a wizard will always be more powerful than the spell itself."
Once again, a hand was raised, but this time it was an unknown student. "Yes, Mr Green, do you have something you want to say?" Alan asked.
"Sir, is that really possible or just a theory?" The young kid asked; from his tone, it felt like he was finding it hard to believe, and at the same time, Alan could notice a few of the other Slytherins nodding their heads.
"Very good question, Mr Green; one should always believe after seeing proof of what they are hearing." Alan replied with a smile; the class was now beginning to flow with a natural rhythm. "So, let me see. Right, Miss Granger, would you mind coming forward and helping me demonstrate something?"
Hermione, without hesitating, came forward with the wand in her hand and stood right in front of Alan, who once again looked at the students with a confident smile. "Alright, now Miss Granger here would cast an unforgivable curse on me..." The students, hearing that, immediately gasped in surprise, but Alan, raising his voice a little higher than before, added, "But worry not; the only thing that spell might do is make you have a little nosebleed, and at the same time, my point can be proved as well."
Though Alan initially didn't want to do this; however, since he was a combat professor, he had to take certain steps to make the students understand the reality of the spell and its use, and at the same time he chose Hermione to be his theory-proving partner because she was the last person who would unnecessarily bring trouble at his doors, unlike Harry, who could attract Dumbledore's attention, or the group of snakes, whose parents could give him trouble for involving them in this, and moreover, he wasn't Mad Eye Moody, who could ignore all of this.
The students in the class, despite seeing their professor full of confidence, felt a little sceptical; Harry and Ron looked at the green fellow with eyes full of malice, as he had knowingly caused trouble.
"Are you alright, Miss Granger?" Alan asked, looking at the little girl.
"Yes, Professor, I'm ready, but, sir, I do not know the incantation of any of the three unforgivable spells." Hermione said, scratching her cheeks.
"Well, that's alright; since I was planning to tell you anyway." Alan said, and then slowly whispered the spell's incantation to Hermione, who mumbled it back as if trying to remember it, to which Alan said, "No need to do that; even if you forget the incantation after this, it's fine."
Hermione, hearing that, nodded with a smile, seeing which Alan looked at the rest of the group and said, "Alright, everyone, make some space for Miss Granger."
The group of students hurriedly got back, leaving a big space in the middle of the classroom, where Hermione walked back to with small steps, "Whenever you're ready, Miss Granger." Alan said, standing at the same spot.
Hermione looked at Alan and then toward the group of students before taking a deep breath; she had never felt such pressure before, but either way, gathering a little bit of her confidence, she raised her wand in Alan's direction and slowly muttered, "Avada Kedavra."
Under the watchful gaze of the students, a green light shot out of Hermione's wand, looking a little sinister, and directly landed on Alan's chest, seeing which everyone gasped at what was to come next, their minds racing with only one thought, 'What will happen to the professor?'
Meanwhile, Alan, who didn't even get a nosebleed, which he had expected to get, realised that he had grown stronger once again. "Stop making that face; as you can see, I'm not dead." Alan said, opening his hands wide; then turning his attention to the kid from earlier, he asked, "Mr Green, what do you think now?"
The moment Alan had asked that question, all of the Gryffindor students turned their attention toward Green fellow and looked at him as if he was some fellow who had been proved idiotic; seeing the sharp gazes of the fellow students, Green couldn't utter a word and hung his head down.
"No need to put your head down, Mr Green; it's not a crime to ask questions." Alan didn't want any of his students to develop any complex conditions in his class, so he encouraged the guy, and then turning his attention back to everyone said, "Now, as I've said earlier, there is no most powerful spell in the world, only strong wizards."
Hermione, with a complex emotion in her heart, returned back to her friends, who welcomed her with a wide smile.
"So what all of you little fellows should focus on is not learning the most powerful-sounding spells but understanding how to use them according to the situation and increasing your proficiency in spells and growing stronger; those are the more important goals a student or a wizard/witch should follow."
The group of students nodded thoughtfully, finally grasping what Professor Alan was trying to convey earlier.
"Now can any of you tell me what spells you learnt in the class last year?" Alan said so before going back to the podium.