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  ”sir,” said harry tentatively, ”does what you39re gog to tell have anythg to do with the prophecy? will it help   survive?”
  ”it has a very great deal to do with the prophecy,” said duble-dore, as casually as if harry had asked hi about the next days weather, ”and i certaly hope that it will help you to survive,”
  dubledore got to his feet and walked around the desk, past harry, who turned early his seat to watch dubledore bend-g over the cabet beside the door when dubledore straight-ened up, he was holdg a failiar shallow stone bas etched with odd arkgs around its ri he pced the pensieve on the desk front of harry
  ”you look worried”
  harry had deed been eyeg the pensieve with appre-hension his previo experiences with the odd device that stored and revealed thoughts and ories, though highly structive, had al been unfortable the st ti he had disturbed its ntents, he had seen uch ore than he would have wished but dubledore was silg
  ”this ti, you enter the pensieve with   and, even ore unually, with perission”
  ”where are we gog, sir?”
  ”for a trip down bob ogden39s ory ne,” said dubledore, pullg fro his pocket a crystal bottle ntag a swirlg silvery-white substance
  ”who was bob ogden?”
  ”he was eployed by the departnt of agical w enforce-nt,” said dubledore ”he died ti ago, but not before i had tracked hi down and persuaded hi to nfide these rel-lections to we are about to aopany hi on a visit he ade the urse of his duties if you will stand, harry ”
  but dubledore was havg difficulty pullg out the sper of the crystal bottle: his jured hand seed stiff and paful
  ”shall —shall i, sir?”
  ”no atter, harry —”
  dubledore poted his wand at the bottle and the rk flew out
  ”sir — how did you jure your hand?” harry asked aga, look-g at the bckened frs with a ixture of revulsion and pity
  ”now is not the ont for that story, harry not yet we have an appotnt with bob ogden”
  dubledore tipped the silvery ntents of the bottle to the pensieve, where they swirled and shired, neither liid nor gas ”after you,” said dubledore, sturg toward the bowl harry bent forward, took a deep
  eath, and pnd his face to the silvery substance he felt his feet leave the office floor he was fallg, fallg through whirlg darkness and then, ite sud-denly, he was blkg dazzlg sunlight before his eyes had adjted, dubledore nded beside hi
  they were standg a untry ne bordered by high, tangled hedrows, beneath a sur sky as
  ight and be as a fet--not ten feet front of the stood a short, pp an wearg enoroly thick gsses that reduced his eyes to olelike specks he was readg a wooden signpost that was stickg out of the
  ables on the left-hand side of the road harry knew this t be ogden he was the only pern sight, and he was al wearg the stran asrtnt of clothes often chosen by ex-perienced wizards tryg to look like les: this case, a frock at and spats over a striped one-piece bathg stu before harry had ti to do ore than register his bizarre appearance, however, ogden had set off at a
  isk walk down the ne
  dubledore and harry followed as they passed the wooden sign, harry looked up at its o ars the one potg back the way they had e read: great hangleton, 5 iles the ar potg after ogden said little hangleton, 1 ile
  they walked a short way with nothg to see but the hedrows, the wide be sky overhead and the swishg, frock-ated figure ahead then the ne curved to the left and fell away, slopg steeply down a hillside, that they had a sudden, unexpected view of a whole valley id out front of the harry uld see a vil-, undoubtedly little hangleton, nestled beeen o steep hills, its church and graveyard clearly visible across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a hand anor hoe surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green wn
  ogden had
  oken to a rectant trot due to the steep down-ward slope dubledore lengthened his stride, and harry hurried to keep up he thought little hangleton t be their fal desti-nation and wondered, as he had done on the night they had found sghorn, why they had to approach it fro such a distance he on disvered that he was istaken thkg that they were gog to the vil, however the ne curved to the right and when they ro