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e was barely a pa on which the prce had not ade additional notes, not all of the ncerned with potion-akg here and there were direc-tions for what looked like spells that the prce had ade up hiself
”or herself,” said herione irritably, overhearg harry pot-g of these out to ron the on roo on saturday eveng ”it ight have been a girl i thk the handwritg looks ore like a girl39s than a boy39s”
”the half-blood prce, he was called,” harry said ”how any girls have been prces?”
herione seed to have no answer to this she rely swled and itched her essay on the prciples of reaterialization away fro ron, who was tryg to read it upside down
harry looked at his watch and hurriedly put the old py of advanced potion-akg back to his bag
”it39s five to eight, i39d better go, i39ll be te for dubledore”
”ooooh!” gasped herione, lookg up at once ”good ck! we39ll wait up, we want to hear what he teaches you!”
”hope it goes okay,” said ron, and the pair of the watched harry leave through the portrait hole
harry proceeded through deserted rridors, though he had to step hastily behd a statue when profesr trewney appeared around a rner, utterg to herself as she shuffled a pack of dirty-lookg pyg cards, readg the as she walked
”o of spades: nflict,” she urured, as she passed the pce where harry crouched, hidden ”seven of spades: an ill on ten of spades: violence knave of spades: a dark young an, possibly troubled, one who dislikes the estioner —”
she sped dead, right on the other side of harry39s statue
”well, that can39t be right,” she said, annoyed, and harry heard her reshufflg vigoroly as she set off aga, leavg nothg but a whiff of okg sherry behd her harry waited until he was ite sure she had gone, then hurried off aga until he reached the spot the seventh-floor rridor where a sgle gargoyle stood agast the wall
”acid pops,” said harry, and the gargoyle leapt aside the wall behd it slid apart, and a ovg spiral stone staircase was re-vealed, onto which harry stepped, that he was carried sooth circles up to the door with the
ass knocker that led to dubledore39s office
harry knocked
”e ,” said dubledore s voice
”good eveng, sir,” said harry, walkg to the headaster39s office
”ah, good eveng, harry sit down,” said dubledore, sil-g ”i hope you39ve had an enjoyable first week back at school?” ”yes, thanks, sir,” said harry
”you t have been by, a detention under your belt already!” ”er,” began harry awkwardly, but dubledore did not look too stern
”i have arrand with profesr snape that you will do your de-tention next saturday stead”
”right,” said harry, who had ore pressg atters on his d than snapes detention, and now looked around surreptitioly for dication of what dubledore was pnng to do with hi this eveng the circur office looked jt as it always did the delicate silver strunts stood on spdle-ed tables, puff-g soke and whirrg portraits of previo headasters and headistresses dozed their fras, and dubledore39s agnifi-cent phoenix, fawkes, stood on his perch behd the door, watch-g harry with
ight terest it did not even look as though dubledore had cleared a space for duelg practice
”, harry,” said dubledore, a besslike voice ”you have been wonderg, i a sure, what i have pnned for you dur-g these — for want of a better word — lesns?”
”yes, sir”
”well, i have decided that it is ti, now that you know what propted lord voldeort to try and kill you fifteen years ago, for you to be given certa ration” there was a pae
”you said, at the end of st ter, you were gog to tell everythg,” said harry it was hard to keep a note of aation fro his voice ”sir,” he added
”and i did,” said dubledore pcidly ”i told you everythg i know fro this pot forth, we shall be leavg the fir founda-tion of fact and journeyg tother through the urky arshes of ory to thickets of wildest guesswork fro here on , harry, i ay be as woefully wrong as huphrey belcher, who be-lieved the ti was ripe for a cheese cauldron”
”but you thk you39re right?” said harry
”naturally i do, but as i have already proven to you, i ake is-takes like the next an fact, beg — five — rather clev