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  his idditch thgs
  ”no, i don39t thk , she39s been stationed where else fro what arthur said”
  ”she has let 39erself go, zat tonks,” fleur ed, exag her own stunng reflection the back of a teaspoon ”a big istake if you ask?“
  ”yes, thank you,” said rs weasley tartly, cuttg across fleur aga ”you39d better t on, harry, i want the trunks ready tonight, if possible, we don39t have the ual st-ute scrable”
  and fact, their departure the follog orng was soother than ual the istry cars glided up to the front of the burrow to fd the waitg, trunks packed herione39s cat, crookshanks, safely enclosed his travelg basket and hedwig ron39s owl, pig-widon and gny39s new purple pygy puff, arnold, cas
  ”au revoir, 39any,” said fleur throatily, kissg hi good-bye ron hurried forward, lookg hopeful, but gny stuck out her foot and ron fell, sprawlg the dt at fleur39s feet furio, red-faced, and dirt-spattered, he hurried to the car without sayg good-bye
  there was no cheerful hagrid waitg for the at kg39s cross station stead, o gri-faced, bearded aurors dark le suits oved forward the ont the cars sped and, fnkg the party, arched the to the station without speakg
  ”ick, ick, through the barrier,” said rs weasley, who
  seed a little fstered by this atere efficiency ”harry had better go first, with ?“
  she looked irgly at one of the aurors, who nodded
  iefly, seized harry39s upper ar, and attepted to steer hi toward the barrier beeen ptfors ne and ten
  ”i can walk, thanks,” said harry irritably, jerkg his ar out of the auror39s grip he phed his trolley directly at the lid barrier, ignorg his silent panion, and found hiself, a send ter, standg on ptfor ne and three-arters, where the scarlet hogwarts express stood belchg stea over the crowd
  herione and the weasleys joed hi with sends without waitg to nsult his gri-faced auror, harry otioned to ron and herione to follow hi up the ptfor, lookg for an epty partnt
  ”we can39t, harry,” said herione, lookg apolotic ”ron and i39ve got to go to the prefects39 carria first and then patrol the rridors for a bit”
  ”oh yeah, i fot,” said harry
  ”you39d better t straight on the tra, all of you, you39ve only got a few utes to go,” said rs weasley, nsultg her watch ”well, have a lovely ter, ron  ”
  ”r weasley, can i have a ick word?” said harry, akg up his d on the spur of the ont
  ”of urse,” said r weasley, who looked slightly surprised, but followed harry out of earshot of the others nevertheless
  harry had thought it through carefully and e to the ncsion that, if he was to tell anyone, r weasley was the right pern firstly, becae he worked at the istry and was therefore the best position to ake further vestigations, and sendly,
  becae he thought that there was not too uch risk of r weasley explodg with anr
  he uld see rs weasley and the gri-faced auror castg the pair of the spicio looks as they oved away
  ”when we were diagon alley,” harry began, but r weasley forestalled hi with a griace
  ”a i about to disver where you, ron, and herione disappeared to while you were supposed to be the back roo of fred and e39s shop?”
  ”how did you ??”
  ”harry, please you39re talkg to the an who raised fred and e”
  ”er  yeah, all right, we weren39t the back roo” ”very well, then, let39s hear the worst”
  ”well, we followed dra alfoy we ed y visibility cloak”
  ”did you have any particur rean for dog , or was it a re whi?”
  ”becae i thought alfoy was up to thg,” said harry, disregardg r weasley39s look of gled exasperation and aent ”he39d given his other the slip and i wanted to know why”
  ”of urse you did,” said r weasley, undg resigned ”well? did you fd out why?”
  ”he went to b and burkes,” said harry, ”and started bullyg the bloke there, b, to help hi fix thg and he said he wanted b to keep thg else for hi he ade it und like it was the sa kd of thg that needed fixg like they were a pair and ”
  harry took a deep
  eath
  ”there39s thg else we saw alfoy jup about a ile when ada alk tried to