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  harry looked around, i uld clib a wall,” he ested
  “no, you uldn39t,” said tonks ftly ”anti-truder jxes on all of the security39s been tightened a hundredfold this sur”
  “well then,” said harry, startg to feel annoyed at her ck of helpfulness, “i suppose i39ll jt have to sleep out here and wait for orng”
  “one39s g down for you,” said tonks, ”look”
  a ntern was bobbg at the distant foot of the castle harry was pleased to see it he felt he uld even endure filch39s wheezy criticiss of his tardess and rants about how his tikeepg would iprove with the regur application of thubscrews it was not until the glog yellow light was ten feet away fro the, and had pulled off his visibility cloak that he uld be seen, that he regnized, with a rh of pure loathg, the uplit hooked nose and long, bck, greasy hair of sever snape
  ”well, well, well,” sneered snape, takg out his wand and tappg the padlock once, that the chas snaked backward and the gates creaked open ”nice of you to turn up, potter, although you have evidently decided that the wearg of school robes would detract fro your appearance”
  ”i uldn39t chan, i didn39t have y —” harry began, but snape cut across hi
  ”there is no need to wait, nyphadora, potter is ite — ah
  — safe y hands”
  ”i ant hagrid to t the ssa,” said tonks, frowng
  ”hagrid was te for the start-of-ter feast, jt like potter here, i took it stead and cidentally,” said snape, standg back to allow harry to pass hi, ”i was terested to see your new patron”
  he shut the gates her face with a loud cng and tapped the chas with his wand aga, that they slithered, clkg, back to pce
  ”i thk you were better off with the old one,” said snape, the alice his voice unistakable ”the new one looks weak”
  as snape swung the ntern about, harry saw, fleetgly, a look of shock and anr on tonks39s face then she was vered darkness once ore
  ”good night,” harry called to her over his shoulder, as he began the walk up to the school with snape ”thanks for everythg,”
  ”see you, harry”
  snape did not speak for a ute or harry felt as though his body was neratg waves of hatred powerful that it seed credibie that snape uld not feel the burng hi he had loathed snape fro their first enunter, but snape had pced hiself forever and irrevocably beyond the possibility of harry39s fiveness by his attitude toward siri whatever dubledore said, harry had had ti to thk over the sur, and had ncded that snape39s snide rearks to siri about reag safely hidden while the rest of the order of the phoenix were off fightg voldeort had probably been a powerful factor siri rhg off to the istry the night that he had died harry cng to this notion, becae it enabled hi to b snape, which felt satisfyg, and al becae he knew that if anyone was not rry that siri was dead, it was the an now stridg next to hi the darkness
  “fifty pots fro gryffdor for teness, i thk,” said snape “and, let see, another enty for your le attire you know, i don’t believe any hoe has ever been negative figures this early the ter: we haven39t even started puddg you ight have set a rerd, potter”
  the fury and hatred bubblg side harry seed to bze white-hot, but he would rather have been iobilized all the way
  back to london than tell snape why he was te
  “i suppose you wanted to ake an entrance, did you?” snape
  ntued ”and with no flyg car avaible you decided that
  burstg to the great hall halfway through the feast ought to
  create a draatic effect”
  still harry reaed silent, though he thought his chest ight
  explode he knew that snape had e to fetch hi for this, for
  the few utes when he uld needle and tornt harry without
  anyone else listeng
  they reached the castle steps at st and as the great oaken front doors swung open to the vast ed entrance hall, a burst of talk and ughter and of tklg ptes and gsses greeted the through the doors standg open to the great hail harry wondered whether he uld slip his visibility cloak back on, thereby gag his seat at the long gryffdor table which, nveniently, was the farthest fro the entrance hall without beg noticed as though he had read harry39s d, however, snape said, ”no cloak you can walk  that everyone sees you, which is what you wanted, i39 sureot