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rit unity that i will not pester you for ration, however 39harry potter knows that he can nfide with plete nfidence,39 i told the 39i would rather die than betray his trt39”
“that39s nor sayg uch, seeg as you39re already dead,” ron observed
“once aga, you show all the sensitivity of a bnt axe,” said nearly headless nick affronted tones, and he rose to the air glided back toward the far end of the gryffdor table jt as dubledore got to his feet at the staff table the talk and ughter echog around the hall died away alost stantly
”the very best of evengs to you!” he said, silg
oadly, his ars opened wide as though to e
ace the whole roo
“what happened to his hand?” gasped herione
she was not the only one who had noticed dubledore39s right hand was as bckened and dead-lookg as it had been on the night he had e to fetch harry fro the dursleys whispers it the roo dubledore, terpretg the rrectly, rely siled and shook his purple-and-gold sleeve over his jury
“nothg to worry about,” he said airily ”now to our new students, wele, to our old students, wele back! another year full of agical education awaits you ”
”his hand was like that when i saw hi over the sur,”
harry whispered to herione ”i thought he39d have cured it by now, though or ada pofrey would39ve done”
”it looks as if it39s died,” said herione, with a naeated expression ”but there are juries you can39t cure old curses…and there are poins without antidotes ”
” and r filch, our caretaker, has asked to say chat there is a bnket ban on any joke ites bought at the shop called weasleys39 wizard wheezes
”those wishg to py for their hoe idditch teas should give their nas to their heads of hoe as ual we are al lookg for new idditch ntators, who should do likewise
”we are pleased to wele a new ber of staff this year, profesr sghorn”— sghorn stood up, his bald head gleag the candlelight, his big waistated belly castg the table to shadow — ”is a forr lleague of e who has agreed resu his old post of potions aster”
”potions?”
”potions?”
the word echoed all over the hall as people wondered wheel they had heard right
”potions?” said ron and herione tother, turng to stare harry ”but you said —”
”profesr snape, anwhile,” said dubledore, raisg voice that it carried over all the utterg, ”will be takg the position of defense agast the dark arts teacher”
”no!” said harry, loudly that any heads turned his direction he did not care he was starg up at the staff table, censed how uld snape be given the defense agast the dark arts job after all this ti? hadn39t it been widely known for years that dubledore did not trt hi to do it?
“but harry, you said that sghorn was gog to be teachg defense agast the dark arts!” said herione
”i thought he was!” said harry, rackg his
as to reber when dubledore had told hi this, but now that he ca to thk of it, he was unable to recall dubledore ever tellg hi what sghorn would be teachg
snape, who was sittg on dubledore39s right, did not stand up his ntion of his na he rely raised a hand zy acknowledgnt of the appe fro the slyther table, yet harry was sure he uld detect a look of triuph on the features he loathed uch
“well, there39s one good thg,” he said savaly ”snape39ll be gone by the end of the year”
“what do you an?” asked ron
“that job39s jxed no ones sted ore than a year irrell actually died dog it pernally, i39 gog to keep y frs crossed for another death ”
“harry!” said herione, shocked and reproachful
“he ight jt go back to teachg potions at the end of the year” said ron reanably ”that sghorn bloke ight not want to stay long-ter oody didn39t”
“dubledore cleared his throat harry, ron, and herione were not the only ones who had been talkg the whole hall had erupted a buzz of nversation at the news that snape had fally achieved his heart’s desire seegly oblivio to the sensational nature of the news he had jt iparted, dubledore said nothg ore about staff appotnts, but waited a few sends to ensure that the silence was abte before ntug
”now, as everybody this hall knows, lord voldeort and his followers are once ore at r an