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  s he ade no nt, but oasionally gave the potions a stir or a sniff at st he reached the table where harry, ron, herione, and ernie were sittg he siled ruefully at the tarlike substance ron39s cauldron he passed over ernie39s navy nction herione39s potion he gave an approvg nod then he saw harry39s, and a look of credulo delight spread over his face
  ”the clear ner!” he cried to the dunon ”excellent, excellent, harry! good lord, it39s clear you39ve herited your other39s talent she was a dab hand at potions, lily was! here you are, then, here you are - one bottle of felix felicis, as proised, and e it well!”
  harry slipped the ty bottle of golden liid to his ner pocket, feelg an odd bation of delight at the furio looks on the slythers39 faces and guilt at the disappoted expression on herione39s ron looked siply dubfounded
  ”how did you do that?” he whispered to harry as they left the dunon
  ”got cky, i suppose,” said harry, becae alfoy was with earshot
  once they were securely ensnced at the gryffdor table for dner, however, he felt safe enough to tell the herione39s face beca stonier with every word he uttered
  ”i s39pose you thk i cheated?” he fished, aggravated by her expression
  ”well, it wasn39t exactly your own work, was it?” she said stiffly
  ”he only followed different structions to ours,” said ron, ”uld39ve been a catastrophe, uldn39t it? but he took a risk and it paid off” he heaved a sigh ”sghorn uld39ve handed that book, but no, i t the one no one39s ever written on puked on, by the look of pa fifty-o, but-”
  ”hang on,” said a voice close by harry39s left ear and he caught a sudden waft of that flowery sll he had picked up sghorn39s dunon he looked around and saw that gny had joed the ”did i hear right? you39ve been takg orders fro thg one wrote a book, harry?”
  she looked ard and angry harry knew what was on her d at once
  ”it39s nothg,” he said reassurgly, lowerg his voice ”it39s not like, you know, riddle39s diary it39s jt an old textbook one39s scribbled on”
  ”but you39re dog what it says?”
  ”i jt tried a few of the tips written the args, honestly, gny, there39s nothg funny -”
  ”gny39s got a pot,” said herione, perkg up at once ”we ought to check that there39s nothg odd about it i an, all these funny structions, who knows?”
  ”hey!” said harry dignantly, as she pulled his py of advanced potion-akg out of his bag and raised her wand ”specialis revelio!” she said, rappg it sartly on the front ver nothg whatever happened the book siply y there, lookg old and dirty and dog-eared
  ”fished?” said harry irritably ”or d39you want to wait and see if it does a few backflips?”
  ”it sees all right,” said herione, still starg at the book spicioly ”i an, it really does see to be jt a textbook”
  ”good then i39ll have it back,” said harry, snatchg it off the table, but it slipped fro his hand and nded open on the floor nobody else was lookg harry bent low to retrieve the book, and as he did , he saw thg scribbled along the botto of the back ver the sa sall, craped handwritg as the structions that had won hi his bottle of felix felicis, now safely hidden side a pair of cks his trunk upstairs
  this book is the property of the half blood prce
  chapter 10: the hoe of unt
  for or the rest of the week39s potions lesns harry ntued to follow the half-blood prce39s structions wherever they de-viated fro libati bora39s, with the result that by their fourth lesn sghorn was ravg about harrys abilities, sayg that he had rarely taught anyone talented neither ron nor herione was delighted by this although harry had offered to share his book with both of the, ron had ore difficulty decipherg the handwritg than harry did, and uld not keep askg harry to read aloud or it ight look spicio herione, anwhile, was retely plog on with what she called the ”official” struc-tions, but beg creasgly bad-tepered as they yielded poorer results than the prce39s
  harry wondered vaguely who the half-blood prce had been although the aount of howork they had been given prevented hi fro readg the whole of his py of advanced potion-akg, he had skid through it sufficiently to see that ther