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arry potter and the half-blood prce
chapter list
chapter 1: the other ister
chapter 2: spner39s end
chapter 3: will and won39t
chapter 4: horace sghorn
chapter 5: an excess of phleg
chapter 6: dra39s detour
chapter 7: the sg cb
chapter 8: victorio snape
chapter 9: the half-blood prce
chapter 10: the hoe of unt
chapter 11: herione39s helpg hand
chapter 12: silver and opals
chapter 13: the secret riddle
chapter 14: felix felicis
chapter 15: the un
eakable vow
chapter 16: a very frosty christas
chapter 17: a ish ory
chapter 18: birthday surprizes
chapter 19: elf tails
chapter 20: lord voldeort39s reest
chapter 21: the unknowable roo
chapter 22: after the burial
chapter 23: horcruxes
chapter 24: sectusepra
chapter 25: the seer overheard
chapter 26: the cave
chapter 27: the lightng-struck tower
chapter 28: flight of the prce
chapter 29: the phoenix nt
chapter 30: the white tob
chapter 1: the other ister
it was nearg idnight and the pri ister was sittg alone his office, readg a long o that was slippg through his
a without leavg the slightest trace of ang behd he was waitg for a call fro the president of a far distant untry, and beeen wonderg when the wretched an would telephone, and tryg to suppress unpleasant ories of what had been a very long, tirg, and difficult week, there was not uch space his head for anythg else the ore he attepted to foc on the prt on the pa before hi, the ore clearly the pri ister uld see the gloatg face of one of his political opponents this particur opponent had appeared on the news that very day, not only to enurate all the terrible thgs that had happened the st week as though anyone needed redg but al to exp why each and every one of the was the governnt39s fault
the pri ister39s pulse ickened at the very thought of these aations, for they were neither fair nor true how on earth was his governnt supposed to have sped that
id lpsg? it was outrao for anybody to est that they were not spendg enough on
ids the
id was fewer than ten years old, and the best experts were at a loss to exp why it had snapped cleanly o, sendg a dozen cars to the watery depths of the river below and how dare anyone est that it was ck of policen that had resulted those o very nasty and well-publicized urders? or that the governnt should have how foreseen the freak hurricane the west untry that had caed uch daa to both people and property? and was it his fault that one of his junior isters, herbert chorley, had chosen this week to act peculiarly that he was now gog to be spendg a lot ore ti with his faily?
”a gri ood has gripped the untry,” the opponent had ncded, barely ncealg his own
oad gr
and unfortunately, this was perfectly true the pri ister felt it hiself people really did see ore iserable than ual even the weather was disal all this chilly ist the iddle of july it wasn39t right, it wasn39t noral
he turned over the send pa of the o, saw how uch lonr it went on, and gave it up as a bad job stretchg his ars above his head he looked around his office ournfully it was a hand roo, with a fe arble firepce facg the long sash dows, firly closed agast the unseanable chill with a slight shiver, the pri ister got up and oved over to the dow, lookg out at the th ist that was pressg itself agast the gss it was then, as he stood with his back to the roo, that he heard a ft ugh behd hi
he froze, nose to nose with his own scared-lookg reflection the dark gss he knew that ugh he had heard it before he turned very slowly to face the epty roo
”hello?” he said, tryg to und
aver than he felt
for a
ief ont he allowed hiself the ipossible hope that nobody would answer hi however, a voice responded at once, a crisp, decisive voice that unded as though it were readg a prepared statent it was g -- as the pri ister had known at the first ugh -- fro the froglike little an wearg a long silver wig who was depicted a sall, dirty oil patg the far rner of the roo
”to the pri ister of les urnt we et kdly respond idiately scerely, fud”
the an the patg looked irgly at the pri ister
”er,” said the pri ister, ”listen its not a very good ti for i39 waitg for a telephone call, yo