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  elephant and castle, but ckily the agical w enforcent sad had rted it out by the ti we got there ”
  harry stifled a yawn behd his hand
  ”bed,” said an undeceived rs weasley at once ”i39ve got fred and e39s roo all ready for you, you39ll have it to yourself”
  ”why, where are they?”
  ”oh, they39re diagon alley, sleepg the little ft over their joke shop as they39re by,” said rs weasley ”i t say, i didn39t approve at first, but they do see to have a bit of a fir for bess! e on, dear, your trunks already up there”
  ”39night, r weasley,” said harry, phg back his chair crookshanks leapt lightly fro his p and snk out of the roo
  ”g39night, harry,” said r weasley
  harry saw rs weasley gnce at the clock the washg basket as they left the kitchen all the hands were once aga at ”ortal peril”
  fred and e39s bedroo was on the send floor rs weasley poted her wand at a p on the bedside table and it ignited at once, bathg the roo a pleasant golden glow though a r vase of flowers had been pced on a desk front of the sall dow, their perfu uld not disguise the lrg sll of what harry thought was gunpowder a nsiderable aount of floor space was devoted to a vast nuber of unarked, sealed cardboard boxes, aongst which stood harry39s school trunk the roo looked as though it was beg ed as a teporary warehoe
  hedwig hooted happily at harry fro her perch on of a r wardrobe, then took off through the dow harry knew she had been waitg to see hi before gog huntg harry bade rs weasley good night, put on pajaas, and got to one of the beds there was thg hard side the pillowcase he groped side it and pulled out a sticky purple-and-oran sweet, which he regnized as a pukg pastille silg to hiself, he rolled over and was stantly asleep
  sends ter, or it seed to harry, he was awakened by what unded like cannon fire as the door burst open sittg bolt upright, he heard the rasp of the curtas beg pulled back: the dazzlg sunlight seed to poke hi hard both eyes shieldg the with one hand, he groped hopelessly for his gsses with the other
  ”wuzzgoon?”
  ”we didn39t know you were here already!” said a loud and excited voice, and he received a sharp blow to the of the head
  ”ron, don39t hit hi!” said a girl39s voice reproachfully
  harry39s hand found his gsses and he shoved the on, though i he light was
  ight he uld hardly see anyway a long, loog shadow ivered front of hi for a ont he blked and ron weasley ca to foc, grng down at hi
  ”all right?”
  ”never been better,” said harry, rubbg the of his head and spg back onto his pillows ”you?”
  ”not bad,” said ron, pullg over a cardboard box and sittg on it ”when did you t here? u39s only jt told !”
  ”about one o39clock this orng”
  ”were the les all right? did they treat you okay?”
  ”sa as ual,” said harry, as herione perched herself on the ed of his bed, ”they didn39t talk to uch, but i like it better that way how39re you, herione?”
  ”oh, i39 fe,” said herione, who was scrutizg harry as though he was sickeng for thg he thought he knew what was behd this, and as he had no wish to discs siri39s death or any other iserable subject at the ont, he said, ”what39s the ti? have i issed
  eakfast?”
  ”don39t worry about that, u39s
  gg you up a tray she reckons you look underfed,” said ron, rollg his eyes ”, what39s been gog on?”
  ”nothg uch, i39ve jt been stuck at y aunt and uncle39s, haven39t i?”
  ”e off it!” said ron ”you39ve been off with dubledore!”
  ”it wasn39t that excitg he jt wanted to help hi persuade this old teacher to e out of retirent his na39s horace sghorn”
  ”oh,” said ron, lookg disappoted ”we thought ?“
  herione fshed a warng look at ron, and ron chand tack at speed
  ”—we thought it39d be thg like that”
  ”you did?” said harry, aed
  ”yeah  yeah, now u
  id has left, obvioly we need a new defense agast the dark arts teacher, don39t we? , er, what39s he like?”
  ”he looks a bit like a walr, and he ed to be head of slyther,” said harry ”thg wrong, herione?ot