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as they practiced, lookg jt as uch like an overgrown bat as ever, lrg to watch harry and ron lg with the task
ron, who was supposed to be jxg harry, was purple the face, his lips tightly pressed to save hiself fro the teptation of utterg the cantation harry had his wand raised, waitg
on tenterhooks to repel a jx that seed unlikely ever to e
”pathetic, weasley,” said snape, after a while ”here -- let show you -”
he turned his wand on harry fast that harry reacted stctively all thought of nonverbal spells fotten, he yelled, ”protego!”
his shield char was strong snape was knocked off-bance and hit a desk the whole css had looked around and now watched as snape righted hiself, swlg
”do you reber tellg you we are practicg nonverbal spells, potter?”
”yes,” said harry stiffly
”yes, sir”
”there39s no need to call 39sir,39 profesr” the words had escaped hi before he knew what he was sayg several people gasped, cdg herione behd snape, however , ron, dean, and sea grned appreciatively
”detention, saturday night, y office,” said snape ”i do not take cheek fro anyone, potter not even 39the chosen one39”
”that was
illiant, harry!” chortled ron, once they were safely on their way to
eak a short while ter
”you really shouldn39t have said it,” said herione, frowng at ron ”what ade you?”
”he tried to jx , case you didn39t notice!” fud harry i had enough of that durg those oncy lesns! why doesn39t he e another guea pig for a chan? what39s dubledore pyg at, anyway, lettg hi teach defense? did you hear hi talkg about the dark arts? he loves the! all that unfixed, tndestructble stuff --
”well,” said herione, ”i thought he unded a bit like you”
”like ?”
”yes, when you were tellg what it39s like to face voldeort you said it wasn39t jt orizg a bunch of spells, you said it was jt you and your
as and your guts - well, wasn39t that what snape was sayg? that it really es down to beg
ave and ick-thkg?”
harry was disard that she had thought his words as well worth orizg as the standard book of spells that he did not argue
”harry! hey, harry!”
harry looked around jack sloper, one of the beaters on st year39s gryffdor idditch tea, was hurryg toward hi holdg a roll of parchnt
”for you,” panted sloper ”listen, 1 heard you39re the new capta when39re you holdg trials?”
”i39 not sure yet,” said harry, thkg privately that sloper would be very cky to t back on the tea ”i39ll let you know”
”oh, right i was hopg it39d be this weekend -”
”but harry was not listeng he had jt regnized the th, sntg writg on the parchnt leavg sloper id-sentence, he hurried away with ron and herione, unrollg the parchnt as he went
dear harry,
i would like to start our private lesns this saturday kdly e along to y office at 8 p i hope you are enjoyg your first day back at school
yours scerely,
alb dubledore
ps i enjoy acid pops
”he enjoys acid pops?” said ron, who had read the ssa over harry39s shoulder and was lookg perplexed
”it39s the password to t past the gargoyle outside his study,” said harry a low voice ”ha! snape39s not gog to be pleased i won39t be able to do his detention!”
he, ron, and herione spent the whole of
eak specutg on what dubledore would teach harry ron thought it ost likely to be spectacur jxes and hexes of the type the death eaters would not know herione said such thgs were illegal, and thought it uch ore likely that dubledore wanted to teach harry advanced defensive agic after
eak, she went off to arithancy while harry and ron returned to the on roo where they grudggly started snape39s howork this turned out to be plex that they still had not fished when herione joed the for their after-nch free period though she nsiderably speeded up the process they had only jt fished when the bell rang for the afternoon39s double potions and they beat the failiar path down to the dunon cssroo that had, for long, been snape39s
when they arrived the rridor they saw that there were only a dozen people progressg to newt level crabbe and goyle had evidently failed to achieve the reired owl grade, but four slythers had a