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  der his visibility cloak by a group of unfriendly slythers eyes still waterg and head still throbbg, he drew his wand, careful not to disarran the cloak, and waited,
  eath held to his relief, alfoy seed to decide that he had iaged the noise he pulled on his robes like the others, locked his trunk, and as the tra slowed to a jerky crawl, fastened a thick new travelg cloak round his neck
  harry uld see the rridors fillg up aga and hoped that herione and ron would take his thgs out onto the ptfor for hi he was stuck where he was until the partnt had ite eptied at st, with a fal rch, the tra ca to a plete halt goyle threw the door open and cled his way out
  to a crowd of send years, punchg the aside crabbe and zabi followed
  ”you go on,” alfoy told pansy, who was waitg for hi with her hand held out as though hopg he would hold it ”i jt want to check thg”
  pansy left now harry and alfoy were alone the partnt people were filg past, descendg onto the dark ptfor alfoy oved over to the partnt door and let down the blds, that people the rridor beyond uld not peer he then bent down over his trunk and opened it aga
  harry peered down over the ed of the a rack, his heart pupg a little faster what had alfoy wanted to hide fro pansy? was he about to see the ysterio
  oken object it was iportant to nd?
  ”petrific totas!”
  without warng, alfoy poted his wand at harry, who was stantly paralyzed as though slow otion, he pled out of the a rack and fell, with an agonizg, floor-shakg crash, at alfoy39s feet, the visibility cloak trapped beneath hi, his whole body revealed with his legs still curled absurdly to the craped kneelg position he uldn39t ove a cle he uld only gaze up at alfoy, who siled
  oadly
  ”i thought ,” he said jubintly ”i heard goyle39s trunk hit you and i thought i saw thg white fsh through the air after zabi ca back  ”
  his eyes lred for a ont upon harry39s traers
  ”you didn39t hear anythg i care about, potter but while i39ve got you here  ”
  -=-hi
  and he staped, hard, on harry39s face harry felt his nose
  eak blood spurted everywhere
  ”that39s fro y father now, let39s see  ”
  alfoy ed the cloak out fro under harry39s iobilized body and threw it over hi
  ”i don39t reckon they39ll fd you till the tras back london,” he said ietly ”see you around, potter or not”
  and takg care to tread on harry39s frs, alfoy left the partnt
  chapter 8: victorio snape
  harry uld not ove a cle he y there beneath the _ visibility cloak feelg the blood fro his nose flow, hot and wet, over his face, listeng to the voices and footsteps the rridor beyond his idiate thought was that one, would surely, would check the partnts before the tra departed aga but at once ca the dispiritg realization that even if body looked to the partnt, he would be neither seen nor heard his best hope was that body else would walk and step on hi
  harry had never hated alfoy ore than as he y there, like an absurd turtle on its back, blood drippg sickengly to his open outh what a stupid situation to have nded hiself and now the st few footsteps were dyg away everyone was shufflg along the dark ptfor outside he uld hear the scrapg of trunks and loud babble of talk
  ron and herione would thk that he had left the tra without the once they arrived at hogwarts and took their pces the great hall, looked up and down the gryffdor table a few tis, and fally realized that he was not there, he, no doubt, would be halfway back to london
  he tried to ake a und, even a grunt, but it was ipossible then he rebered that wizards, like dubledore, uld perfor spells without speakg, he tried to suon his wand, which had fallen out of his hand, by sayg the words ”aio wand!” over and over aga his head, but nothg happened
  he thought he uld hear the rtlg of the trees that surrounded the ke, and the far-off hoot of an owl, but no ht of a search beg ade or even he despised hiself slightly for hopg it panicked voices wonderg where harry potter had gone a feelg of hopelessness spread through hi as he iaged the nvoy of thestral-drawn carrias trundlg up to the school and the uffled yells of ughter issug fro whichever carria alfoy was ridg , where he uld be reuntg his attack on harry to crabbe, goyle, zabi, and pansy parks