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  those three go with hagrid, and we can go to flourish and blotts and t everyone39s school-books?”
  ”i don39t know,” said rs weasley anxioly, clearly torn beeen a desire to fish the shoppg ickly and the wish to stick tother a pack ”hagrid, do you thk —- ?”
  ”don39 fret, they39ll be fe with , olly,” said hagrid othgly, wavg an airy hand the size of a dtb lid rs weasley did not look entirely nvced, but allowed the separation, scurryg off toward flourish and blotts with her hband and gny while harry, ron, herione, and hagrid set off for ada alk39s
  harry noticed that any of the people who passed the had the sa harried, anxio look as rs weasley, and that nobody was spg to talk anyore the shoppers stayed tother their own tightly knit groups, ovg tently about their bess nobody seed to be shoppg alone
  ”igh39 be a bit of a seeze there with all of ,” said hagrid, spg outside ada alk39s and bendg down to peer through the dow ”i39ll stand guard outside, all right?”
  harry, ron, and herione entered the little shop tother it appeared, at first gnce, to be epty, but no oner had the door swung shut behd the than they heard a failiar voice issug fro behd a rack of dress robes spangled green and be
  ”  not a child, case you haven39t noticed, other i a perfectly capable of dog y shoppg alone”
  there was a cckg noise and a voice harry regnized as that of ada alk, the owner, said, ”now, dear, your other39s ite right, none of is supposed to go wanderg around on our own anyore, it39s nothg to do with beg a child —”
  ”watch where you39re stickg that p, will you!”
  a teena boy with a pale, poted face and white-blond hair appeared fro behd the rack, wearg a hand set of dark green robes that glittered with ps around the he and the eds of the sleeves he strode to the irror and exaed hiself it was a few onts before he noticed harry, ron, and herione reflected over his shoulder his light gray eyes narrowed
  ”if you39re wonderg what the sll is, other, a udblood jt walked ,” said dra alfoy
  ”i don39t thk there39s any need for ngua like that!” said ada alk, scurryg out fro behd the clothes rack holdg a tape asure and a wand ”and i don39t want wands drawn y shop either!” she added hastily, for a gnce toward the door had shown her harry and ron both standg there with their wands out and potg at alfoy herione, who was standg slightly behd the, whispered, ”no, don39t, honestly, it39s not worth it ”
  ”yeah, like you39d dare do agic out of school,” sneered alfoy ”who bcked your eye, granr? i want to send the flowers”
  ”that39s ite enough!” said ada alk sharply, lookg over her shoulder for support ”ada — please —”
  narcissa alfoy strolled out fro behd the clothes rack
  ”put those away,” she said ldly to harry and ron ”if you at-tack y n aga, i shall ensure that it is the st thg you ever do”
  ”really?” said harry, takg a step forward and gazg to the soothly arrogant face that, for all its pallor, still resebled her sister39s he was as tall as she was now ”gog to t a few death eater pals to do , are you?”
  ada alk sealed and ctched at her heart
  ”really, you shouldn39t ae — danro thg to say — wands away, please!”
  but harry did not lower his wand narcissa alfoy siled unpleasantly
  ”i see that beg dubledore39s favorite has given you a false sense of security, harry potter but dubledore won39t always be there to protect you”
  harry looked ockgly all around the shop ”wow  look at that  he39s not here now! why not have a go? they ight be able to fd you a double cell azkaban with your loser of a hband!”
  alfoy ade an angry ovent toward harry, but stubled over his overlong robe ron ughed loudly
  ”don39t you dare talk to y other like that, potter!” alfoy snarled
  ”it39s all right, dra,” said narcissa, restrag hi with her th white frs upon his shoulder ”i expect potter will be reunited with dear siri before i a reunited with ci” 39