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harry and ron t herione the on roo before
eakfast next orng hopg for support his theory, harry lost no ti tellg herione what he had overheard alfoy sayg on the hogwarts express
”but he was obvioly shog off for parkn, wasn39t he?” terjected ron ickly, before herione uld say anythg
”well,” she said uncertaly, ”i don39t know it would be like alfoy ake hiself see ore iportant than he is but that39s a big lie to tell ”
”exactly,” said harry, but he uld nor press the pot, becae any people were tryg to listen to his nversation, not to ntion starg at hi and whisperg behd their hands
”it39s rude to pot,” ron snapped at a particurly cule first-year boy as they joed the eue to clib out of the portrait hole the boy, who had been utterg thg about harry behd his hand to his friend, proptly turned scarlet and pled out of the hole ar ron ered ”i love beg a sixth year and were gog to be ttg free ti this year whole periods when we can jt sit up here and rex”
”we39re gog to need that ti for studyg, ron!” said herione, as they set off down the rridor
”yeah, but not today,” said ron ”today39s gog to be a real doss, i reckon”
”hold it!” said herione, throg out an ar and haltg a passg fourth year, who was atteptg to ph past her with a li-green disk ctched tightly his hand ”fand frisbees banned, hand it over,” she told hi sternly the swlg boy handed over the snarlg frisbee, ducked under her ar, and took off after his friends ron waited for hi to vanish, then ed the frisbee fro herione39s grip
”excellent, i39ve always wanted one of these”
herione39s reonstration was drowned by a loud le vender
own had apparently found ron39s reark highly ag she ntued to ugh as she passed the, gncg back at ron over her shoulder ron looked rather pleased with hiself
the ceilg of the great hall was serenely be and streaked with frail, wispy clouds, jt like the sares of sky visible through the high ullioned dows while they tucked to porrid and eggs and ban, harry and ron told herione about their ebarassg nversation with hagrid the previo eveng
”but he can39t really thk we39d ntue care of agical creatures !” she said, lookg distressed ”i an, when has any of expressed you know any enthias?”
”that39s it, though, nit?” said ron, swallog an entire fried egg whole ”we were the ones who ade the ost effort csses becae we like hagrid but he thks we liked the stupid subject d39ya reckon anyone39s gog to go on to newt?”
neither harry nor herione answered there was no need they knew perfectly well that nobody their year would want to ntue care of agical creatures they avoided hagrid39s eye and returned his cheery wave only half-heartedly when he left the staff table ten utes ter
after they had eaten, they reaed their pces, awaitg profesr cgonagall39s descent fro the staff table the distribution of css schedules was ore plicated than ual this year, for profesr cgonagall needed first to nfir that everybody had achieved the necessary owl grades to ntue with their chosen newts
herione was idiately cleared to ntue with chars, defense agast the dark arts, transfiguration, herbology, arithancy, ancient runes, and potions, and shot off to a first period ancient runes css without further ado neville took a little lonr to rt out his round face was anxio as profesr cgonagall looked down his application and then nsulted his owl results
”herbology, fe,” she said ”profesr sprout will be delighted to see you back with an 39outstandg39 owl and you alify for defense agast the dark arts with 39exceeds expectations39 but the proble is transfiguration i39 rry, longbotto, but an 39aeptable39 really isn39t good enough to ntue to newt level jt don39t thk you39d be able to pe with the ursework”
neville hung his head profesr cgonagall peered at hi through her sare spectacles
”why do you want to ntue with transfiguration, anyway? i39ve never had the ipression that you particurly enjoyed it”
neville looked iserable and uttered thg about ”y grandother wants”
”hph,” snorted profest cgonagall ”it39s high ti your grandother learned to be prou