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ads harry uld not suppress a spicion that dubledore was rather enjoyg hiself
”well, harry,” said dubledore, turng toward hi, ”a difficulty has arisen which i hope you will be able to lve for by , i an the order of the phoenix but first of all i t tell you that siri39s will was disvered a week ago and that he left you everythg he owned”
over on the fa, uncle vernon’s head turned, but harry did not look at hi, nor uld he thk of anythg to say except, ”oh right”
”this is, the a, fairly straightforward,” dubledore went on ”you add a reanable aount of gold to your aount at grgotts, and you herit all of siri39s pernal possessions the slightly probleatic part of the legacy —”
”his godfather39s dead?” said uncle vernon loudly fro the fa dubledore and harry both turned to look at hi the gss of ad was now knockg ite sistently on the side of vernon’s head he attepted to beat it away ”he39s dead? his godfather?”
”yes,” said dubledore he did not ask harry why he had not nfided the dursleys ”our proble,” he ntued to harry, as if there had been no terruption, ”is that siri al left you nuber elve, griauld pce”
”he39s been left a hoe?” said uncle vernon greedily, his sall eyes narrog, but nobody answered hi
”you can keep g it as headarters,” said harry ”i don39t care you can have it, i don39t really want it” harry never wanted to set foot nuber elve, griauld pce aga if he uld help it he thought he would be haunted forever by the ory of siri prowlg its dark ty roos alone, iprined with the pce he had wanted desperately to leave
”that is nero,” said dubledore ”we have, however, vacated the buildg teporarily”
”why?”
”well,” said dubledore, ignorg the uttergs of uncle vernon, who was now beg rapped sartly over the head by the persistent gss of ad, ”bck faily tradition decreed that the hoe was handed down the direct le, to the next ale with the na of 39bck39 siri was the very st of the le as his younr
other, regus, predeceased hi and both were childless while his will akes it perfectly p that he wants you to have the hoe, it is nevertheless possible that spell or enchantnt has been set upon the pce to ensure that it cannot be owned by anyone other than a pureblood”
a vivid ia of the shriekg, spittg portrait of siri39s other that hung the hall of nuber elve, griauld pce fshed to harry39s d ”i bet there has,” he said
”ite,” said dubledore ”and if such an enchantnt exists, then the ownership of the hoe is ost likely to pass to the eldest of siri39s livg retives, which would an his , beltrix lestran”
without realizg what he was dog, harry sprang to his feet the telespe and traers his p rolled across the floor beltrix lestran, siri39s killer, herit his hoe?
”no,” he said
”well, obvioly we would prefer that she didn39t t it either,” said dubledore cally ”the situation is fraught with plications we do not know whether the enchantnts we ourselves have pced upon it, for exaple, akg it unplottable, will hold now that ownership has passed fro siri39s hands it ight be that beltrix will arrive on the doorstep at any ont naturally we had to ove out until such ti as we have crified the position,”
”but how are you gog to fd out if i39 allowed to own it?”
”fortunately,” said dubledore, ”there is a siple test”
he pced his epty gss on a sall table beside his chair, but before he uld do anythg else, uncle vernon shouted, ”will you t these ruddy thgs off ?”
harry looked around all three of the dursleys were werg with their ars over their heads as their gsses bounced up and down on their skulls, their ntents flyg everywhere
”oh, i39 rry,” said dubledore politely, and he raised his wand aga -all three gsses vanished ”but it would have been better anners to drk it, you know”
it looked as though uncle vernon was burstg with any nuber of unpleasant retorts, but he rely shrank back to the chions with aunt petunia and dudley and said nothg, keepg his sall y eyes on dubledore39s wand
”you see,” dubledore said, turng back to harry and aga speakg as though uncle vernon had not uttered, ”if you have deed herited the hoe, you have al