Amelia Hurst

Amelia Hurst is the Defense Against The Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1991-1992 school year. She is proficient in her duties, and demands strict standards for her classes. She appears to hold to a non-ministry approved philosophy of Magic and Magical Theory. It is later discovered that she is actually a body of an unnamed American witch housing the soul of Lady Voldemort, at Hogwarts to steal the Philosopher's Stone.

## **1991:**

During the introductory lesson for the first-year Slytherin students she regales then with the true purpose of her class and its relative relevance compared to the other Hogwarts classes — her view of considering her class the most relevant of them all being made clear, with some, such as Harry Potter being in complete accord with such a notion. Later on she continues with a demonstration about the relevance of a good defense and the weakest of the magical shield charms — Aegis Vocar. Harry is her volunteer for that demonstration. That is followed by assigning the class to learn how to cast the previously demonstrated shield. Harry is the first to manage it, the speed at which he achieves that mildly impressing her. Later on she tests Harry's shield and helps him improve it by teaching him the basics about the importance of intent when spell casting.

The same day, almost before the student curfew she catches Harry cursing in the library. After a brief reprimand and a compliment about his potential among his fellow first years, she is able to convince Harry to open up and ask for her help. Thus, she ends up teaching him the Muffliato, an Anti-Eavesdropping charm, that she recommends he keeps to himself.

During the Defense Against the Dark Arts class on September 9th, she lectures the first-year Slytherins on the nature of the Dark Arts and the overall relevance of intent when spellcasting. A conversation ensures with Harry Potter that seem to indicate an alignment of opinion in regards to the ridiculous definition of the Dark Arts imposed by the Ministry. After class she holds Harry back grants him a full, unrestricted access slip to the Restricted Section of the library, with the recommendation to read *Intent is Power* by Emeric Emalaus.

On September 13th she continues the instructs the students to continue practicing against curses with the Aegis Vocar shield. She pairs Harry with Theodore Nott. Harry is so angry about what happened with Tracey that he lets his emotions influence the spell he casts at Theodore, and the Pimple Jinx sent at him rips through his shield and causes his entire body to break out in boils. Amelia Hurst uses the General Counterspell to stop the boils from continuing, sends Theodore to the hospital wing, and dismisses the class save for Harry. When only Harry remains she locks the room magically and then curses him. Harry is able to block the spell and a some 10 minute fight ensures, the fight ends when Harry drops to the floor completely exhausted. She lectures him a bit on magical theory, and berates him for not yet having read *Intent is Power*. As punishment for what he did, she assigns him an essay from the first chapter of the book. Based on her actions, in intentionally placing Harry with Theodore, it is possible she used Legilimency to ascertain Harry's state of mind and engineered the incident to drive Harry into her tutelage.

During Hogwarts' Samhain feast she saves the life of Harry Potter by slaying the troll that was ready to kill him with the Killing Curse. She then ensures that Harry is unharmed and asks him not to talk about her use of an Unforgivable — he readily agrees. Through that conversation she finds out that Harry has read the whole book *Intent is Power* and the he agrees with the magical philosophy argued in there. She then make it look like Harry was the one that defeated the troll with the help of the levitation charm applied on the trolls club. While escorting Harry back to the Slytherin Common Room he explains to him the difference between duelling and fighting and agrees to give him private lessons in the latter.

On the evening of November 8th she meets with Harry in his private study room for their first private fighting tutoring session. Previous to his arrival she had made some improvements to it. She makes him a deal, if he can keep up his rate of progression, she will further furnish the room making it fit for study in a group. She drills him on the importance of not projecting one's next spell, tight and precise spell-casting, and focusing on accuracy.

Her fourth tutoring session with Harry occurs on November 29th, on that lesson she starts teaching him offensive spells by teaching him Impedimenta, the Impediment Jinx, and Impulsum, the Bludgeoning Curse. At the end of the session she is genuinely praising his progress much to Harry's delight.

As an Yule gift she crafts Harry a magical ring and sends it to him stating that it came from a secret admirer. The ring acts as a Disillusionment charm when one holds they breath, it also allows one to eavesdrop with ease.

## **1992:**

On March 6th, during their private practice session **Professor Hurst** and Harry have their first rounds of mock duels. At the end of them she reveals to Harry how proud she is of his progress. Harry inquires about the spell battering technique and she explains the concept to him.

During the private tutoring session on May 1st, she asks how Harry is he holding up in his classes, and he informs her that he is doing well in all of them. In response to this, she decides to continue their sessions up to examination time. In this session, she demonstrates the stunning spell and it's counter, and Harry informs her of the dueling group he participates in, and she congratulates him on forging such valuable connections and encourages him to cultivate them further in the future.

She tests Harry for his Defense final, watching him demonstrate deflecting spells with his wand, and gives him a coveted O+ score. After the exam, she gave him a notebook that sorts ideas and provides infinite pages. That notebook seems to be linked to the mysterious Emily Riddle.

### Confrontation for the Philosopher's Stone

Hurst goes to get the Philosopher's Stone from the third floor corridor on the night of June 4th. She encounters the Mirror of Erised, and is unable to remove the stone from it, but is more than capable of dealing with Charlus Potter's attempts at thwarting her. In a confrontation with Harry Potter, she reveals that she was behind most of the machinations that occurred at Hogwarts this year, and that she is actually Lady Voldemort. During this confrontation, she attempts to recruit Harry, and while he is tempted by her, he instead frees his brother. She tells him that she understands, that she would have made a similar choice at the age of eleven, and that they will continue this conversation at a later date. They have a short duel, in which Harry is treated using only non-lethal spells. After she subdued Harry, she turned her attention to Charlus and attempted a lethal Killing Curse, but is stopped by contact with Charlus. Her body is reduced to a burnt husk under touch, and the spirit of Lady Voldemort is presumed to have escaped.