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  day bees extraordary!”
  ”,” said sghorn, suddenly
  isk, ”how are you to fabulo prize? well, by turng to pa ten of advanced potion akg we have a little over an hour left to , which should be ti for you to ake a decent attept at the draught of livg death i know it is ore plex than anythg you have attepted before, and i do not expect a perfect potion fro anybody the pern who does best, however, will little felix here off you go!”
  there was a scrapg as everyone drew their cauldrons toward the and loud cnks as people began addg weights to their scales, but nobody spoke the ncentration with the roo was alost tangible harry saw alfoy rifflg feverishly through his py of advanced potion-akg, it uld not have been clearer that alfoy really wanted that cky day harry bent swiftly over the tattered book sghorn had lent hi
  to his annoyance he saw that the previo owner had scribbled all over the pas, that the args were as bck as the prted portions bendg low to decipher the gredients even here, the previo owner had ade annotations and crossed thgs out harry hurried off toward the store cupboard to fd what he needed as he dashed back to his cauldron, he saw alfoy cuttg up valerian roots as fast as he uld
  everyone kept gncg around at what the rest of the css was dog this was both an advanta and a disadvanta of potions, that it was hard to keep your work private with ten utes, the
  whole pce was full of bish stea herione, of urse, seed to have progressed furthest her potion already resebled the ”sooth, bck currant-lored liid” ntioned as the ideal halfway sta
  havg fished choppg his roots, harry bent low over his book aga it was really very irritatg, havg to try and decipher the directions under all the stupid scribbles of the previo owner,
  who for rean had taken issue with the order to cut up the pophoro bean and had written the alternative struction:
  crh with ft side of silver er,
  releases juice better than cuttg
  ”sir, i thk you knew y grandfather, a
  axas alfoy?” harry looked up sghorn was jt passg the slyther table
  ”yes,” said sghorn, without lookg at alfoy, ”i was rry to hear he had died, although of urse it wasn39t unexpected, dragon pox at his a  ”
  and he walked away harry bent back over his cauldron, sirkg he uld tell that alfoy had expected to be treated like harry or zabi perhaps even hoped for preferential treatnt of the type he had learned to expect fro snape it looked as though alfoy would have to rely on nothg but talent to the bottle of felix felicis
  the pophoro bean was provg very difficult to cut up harry turned to herione
  ”can i borrow your silver knife?”
  she nodded ipatiently, not takg her eyes off her potion, which was still deep purple, though aordg to the book ought to be turng a light shade of lic by now
  harry crhed his bean with the ft side of the er to his astonishnt, it idiately exuded uch juice he was aazed the shriveled bean uld have held it all
  hastily sopg it all to the cauldron he saw, to his surprise, that the potion idiately turned exactly the shade of lic described by the textbook
  his annoyance with the previo owner vanishg on the spot, harry now sted at the next le of structions aordg the book, he had to stir unterclockwise until the potion turned clear as water aordg to the addition the previo owner ade, however, he ought to add a clockwise stir after every seventh unterclockwise stir uld the old owner be right ice?
  harry stirred unterclockwise, held his
  eath, and stirred once clockwise the effect was idiate the potion turned pale pk
  ”how are you dog that?” deanded herione, who was redfaced and whose hair was grog bhier and bhier the fus fro her cauldron her potion was still retely purple
  ”add a clockwise stir -”
  ”no, no, the book says unterclockwise!” she snapped
  harry ed and ntued what he was dog seven stirs unterdockwise, one clockwise, pae  seven stirs unterclockwise, one stir clockwise
  across the table, ron was cursg fently under his
  eath his potion looked like liid lirice harry gnced around as far as he uld see, no one else39s potion had turned as pale as his he felt eted, thg that had certaly never happened before this dunon
  ”and ti39s  up!” called sghorn ”s stirrg, please!”
  sghorn oved slowly aong the tables, peerg to cauldron