Defense Against the Dark Arts

If you ask any of the students at Hogwarts what their favorite class or at least what their most interesting class is they would most likely say Defense Against the Dark Arts, located on the first floor. The job of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor seems to be cursed and has been ever since anyone can remember and the position is also coveted by the Potions Master, Severus Snape. Any person who comes in to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts only ever lasts for the year and then either dies in the case of Professor Quirrel, goes insane in case of Gilderoy Lockhart, or decides to resign in the case of the latest professor, Remus J. Lupin, a werewolf but essentially an excellent professor. This year the famous retired auror, Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody has come out of his retirement to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. The classroom differs from year to year but always has a wall of windows on the left side of the room that provides light to the rows of desks in the middle of the room. In front of the room there is a podium where the professor can teach class and a series of chalkboards, text books, and diagrams of spells, hexes, jinxes and other forms of dark magic.