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  harry turned on the spot and arched straight through the open doors: anythg to t away fro snape the great hall with its four long hoe tables and its staff table set at the of the roo, was derated as ual with floatg candles that ade the ptes below glitter and glow it was ail a shirg
  to harry, however, who walked fast that he was passg the hufflepuff table before people really started to stare, and by the ti they were standg up to t a good look at hi, he had spotted ron and herione, sped along the benches toward the, il forced his way beeen the
  ”where39ve you — bliy, what39ve you done to your face?” said ron, lg at hi along with everyone else the vicity i
  ”why, what39s wrong with it?” said harry, grabbg a spoon and stg at his distorted reflection
  ”you39re vered blood!” said herione ”e here —”
  she raised her wand, said ”tero!” and siphoned off the dried blood
  ”thanks,” said harry, feelg his now clean face ”how39s y nose lookg?
  “noral,” said heroe anxioly ”why shouldn39t it? harry, what happened? we39ve been terrified!”
  “i39ll tell you ter,” said harry curtly he was very nscio that gny, neville, dean, and sea were listeng even nearly headless nick, the gryffdor ghost, had e floatg along the bench to eavesdrop
  “but —” said herione
  “not now, herione,” said harry, a darkly significant voice he hoped very uch that they would all assu he had been volved thg heroic, preferably volvg a uple of death eaters and a dentor of urse, alfoy would spread the story as wide as he uld, but there was always a chance it wouldn39t reach too any gryffdor ears
  he reached across ron for a uple of chicken legs and a handful chips, but before he uld take the they vanished, to be repced with puddgs
  “you issed the rtg, anyway,” said herione, as ron dived a rgt: chote gateau
  “hat say anythg terestg?” asked harry, takg a piece of treacle tart
  “ore of the sa, really  advisg all to unite the face eneies, you know”
  “dubledore ntioned voldeort at all?” not yet, but he always saves his proper speech for after the the feast doesn39t he? it can39t be long now”
  “snape said hagrid was te for the feast —”
  “you39ve seen snape? how e?” said ron beeen frenzied outhfuls of gateau
  ”buped to hi,” said harry evasively
  ”hagrid was only a few utes te,” said herione ”look, he39s wavg at you, harry”
  harry looked up at the staff table and grned at hagrid, who was deed wavg at hi hagrid had never ite anad to port hiself with the dignity of profesr cgonagall, head of gryffdor hoe, the of whose head ca up to where beeen hagrid39s elbow and shoulder as they were sittg side by side, and who was lookg disapprovgly at this enthiastic greetg harry was surprised to see the divation teacher, profesr trewney, sittg on hagrid39s other side she rarely left her tower roo, and he had never seen her at the start-of-ter feast before she looked as odd as ever, glitterg with beads and trailg shawls, her eyes agnified to enoro size by her spectacles havg always nsidered her a bit of a fraud, harry had been shocked to disver at the end of the previo ter that it had been she who had ade the prediction that caed lord voldeort to kill harry39s parents and attack harry hiself the knowled ade hi even less ear to fd hiself her pany, thankfully, this year he would be droppg divation her great beanlike eyes swiveled his direction he hastily looked away toward the slyther table dra alfoy was ig the shattererg of a nose to rau ughter and appe harry dropped his gaze to his treacle tart, his sides burng aga what he would give to fight alfoy one-on-one
  ” what did profesr sghorn want?” herione asked
  ”to know what really happened at the istry” said harry
  ”hi and everyone else here,” sniffed herione ”people were terrogatg about it on the tra, weren39t they, ron?”
  ”yeah,” said ron ”all wantg to know if you really are 39the chosen one39 —”
  ”there has been uch talk on that very subject even aongst the ghosts,” terrupted nearly headless nick, clg his barely nnected head toward harry that it wobbled danroly on its ruff ”i a nsidered thg of a potter authority it is widely known that we are friendly i have assured the spi