Dark Arts and Defense

Overview
This class focuses on dangerous magic and how to defend oneself from these spells. Contrary to many rumors that fly around, students are not taught how to cast actual Dark Magic; they simply learn about it. After all, in order to protect yourself from evil, you have to understand evil. Lessons will be both practical and theoretical in nature, involving bookwork, tactics, dueling, and so on. This class is a requirement for all those who wish to become Aurors later in life. Others who excel in this class may also be employed privately as corporate security officials, personal bodyguards, teachers, defense consultants, Ministry Law Enforcement Officers, or any other mode of employment that may require extensive knowledge in defense.

Curriculum

 * First Year


 * Description and history of the Dark Arts
 * Dark wizards (Grindelwald, Voldemort)
 * Wand techniques for defense
 * Expelliarmus, disarming
 * Impedimenta
 * knockback
 * Locomotor Mortis, leg-locker
 * Incendio, fire
 * Grindylows and Relashio
 * Hinkypunks and Lumos, light, and four-point spell
 * Kappas and Immobulus
 * Redcaps and Everte Statum, and repelling charm
 * Second Year


 * Boggarts and Riddikulus
 * Rictusempra, tickling
 * Densaugeo
 * Petrificus Totalus, full body-bind
 * Pogrebins and Stupefy, stunning
 * Banshees
 * Werewolves and Homorphous charm
 * Vampires
 * Basilisks
 * Runespoors
 * Lethifolds
 * Nundus
 * Manticores
 * Phoenixes (tears and song)
 * Unicorn blood
 * Antidotes (bezoars)
 * Defensive items (sneakoscopes, foe glasses, revealers, secrecy sensors, invisibility cloaks)
 * Colloportus, locking
 * Episkey
 * obliteration
 * Third Year


 * Defending against curses (reflexes, hex deflection)
 * Countercurses (Stupefy, Ennervate, Confundus)
 * History of Azkaban
 * Inferi
 * Silencio, silencing
 * Reducto
 * Finite/Finite Incantatem
 * Basic wizard dueling
 * Protego, shield
 * disillusionment
 * Patronus
 * Magical items (pensieves, time-turners, portkeys)
 * Defensive mindset
 * Introduction to Occlumency
 * Review for E.M.U.
 * Fourth Year


 * Ancient magic (blood bonds, life debts, Unbreakable Vows, Fidelius charm, taboos)
 * Unplottables
 * Fidelius charm
 * Priori Incantatem
 * Dark magical items
 * Vanishing spells
 * Binding charms
 * Wizarding types (Parselmouths, Animagi, Metamorphmagi, Seers, Occlumens, Legilimens)
 * Non-verbal casting
 * Beginner Occlumency
 * Fifth Year


 * Imperturbable charm
 * Homorphous charm
 * Anti-disapparition jinx
 * Protean charm
 * Intermediate Occlumency
 * Evasion and counter-attacks using Apparition
 * Intermediate dueling
 * Introduction to Legilimency
 * Unforgivables and possible defenses
 * Fiendfyre
 * Possession
 * Review for S.T.O.M.P.

Syllabus

 * Taught by: Prof. Osmor Strum
 * Location: Basement
 * Time
 * First Year: Day 1, Period 5
 * Second Year: Day 2, Period 6
 * Third Year: Day 2, Period 3
 * Fourth Year: Day 1, Period 4
 * Fifth Year: Day 1, Period 1
 * First Year


 * Second Year


 * Third Year


 * Fourth Year


 * Fifth Year