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  d gag strength”
  the silence seed to tauten and stra as dubledore spoke harry gnced at alfoy alfoy was not lookg at dubledore, but akg his fork hover idair with his wand, as though he found the headaster39s words unworthy of his attention
  ”i cannot ephasize strongly enough how danro the present situation is, and how uch care each of at hogwarts t take to ensure that we rea safe the castle’s agical fortifications have been strengthened over the sur, we are protected new and ore powerful ways, but we t still guard scrupuloly agast carelessness on the part of any student or ber of staff i ur you, therefore, to abide by any security restrictions that you teachers ight ipose upon you, however irk you ight fd the — particur, the rule that you are not to be out of after hours i iplore you, should you notice anythg stran or spicio with or outside the castle, to report it to a ber of staff idiately i trt you to nduct yourselves, always, with the utost regard for your own and others39 safety”
  dubledore39s be eyes swept over the students before he siled once ore
  ”but now, your beds await, as war and fortable as you uld possibly wish, and i know that your priority is to be well-rested for your lesns toorrow let therefore say good night pip pip!”
  with the ual deafeng scrapg noise, the benches oved back and the hundreds of students began to file out of the great hall toward their doritories harry, who was no hurry at all to leave with the gawpg crowd, nor to t near enough to alfoy to allow hi to retell the story of the nose-stapg, ed behd, pretendg to retie the ce on his traer, allog ost of gryffdors to draw ahead of hi herione had darted ahead to fulfill her prefect39s duty of shepherdg the first years, but ron reaed with harry
  “what really happened to your nose?” he asked, once they were at the very back of the throng pressg out of the hall, and out of earshot of anyone else
  harry told hi it was a ark of the strength of their friendship that ron did not ugh
  “i saw alfoy ig thg to do with a nose,” he said darkly
  “yeah, well, never d that,” said harry bitterly ”listen to what he was sayg before he found out i was there  ”
  “harry had expected ron to be stunned by alfoys boasts with what harry nsidered pure pigheadedness, however, ron was unipressed
  “e on, harry, he was jt shog off for parkn…
  what kd of ission would you-know-who have given hi?”
  “how d39you know voldeort doesn39t need one at hogwarts? it wouldn39t be the first —”
  “i wish yeh39d s say39 tha na, harry,” said a reproachful voice behd the harry looked over his shoulder to see hagtid shakg his head
  ”dubledore es that na,” said harry stubbornly
  “yeah, well, tha39s dubledore, nit?” said hagrid ysterioly
  “ how e yeh were te, harry? i was worried”
  ”got held up on the tra,” said harry ”why were you te?”
  ”i was with grawp,” said hagrid happily ”los39 track o39 the ti he39s got a new ho up the ountas now, dubledore fixed it — nice big cave he39s uch happier than he was the forest we were hav39 a good chat”
  ”really?” said harry, takg care not to catch ron39s eye the st ti he had t hagrid39s half-
  other, a vicio giant with a talent for rippg up trees by the roots, his vocabury had prised five words, o of which he was unable to pronounce properly
  ”oh yeah, he39s really e on,” said hagrid proudly ”yeh39ll be aazed i39 thk39 o39 tra39 hi up as assistant”
  ron snorted loudly, but anad to pass it off as a violent sneeze they were now standg beside the oak front doors
  ”anyway, i39ll see yeh toorrow, firs39 lesn39s straight after nch e early an39 yeh can say hello ter buck — i an, withergs!”
  raisg an ar cheery farewell, he headed out of the doors to the darkness
  harry and ron looked at each other harry uld tell that ku| was experiencg the sa skg feelg as hiself
  ”you39re not takg care of agical creatures, are you?”
  ron shook his head ”and you39re not either, are you?”
  harry shook his head too
  ”and herione,” said ron, ”she39s not, is she?”
  harry shook his head aga exactly what hagrid would say when he realized his three favorite students had given up his subject, he did not like to thk
  chapter 9: the hal

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