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  eyere!” rang out a girl39s voice, as clearly au-dible through the open dow as if she had stood the roo be-side the ”uldn39t your father have that hovel cleared away, to?”
  ”it39s not ours,” said a young an39s voice ”everythg on the other side of the valley belongs to , but that tta belongs to an old trap called gaunt, and his children the n39s ite ad, you should hear of the stories they tell the vil —”
  the girl ughed the jglg, cloppg noises were grog louder and louder orf ade to t out of his archair , ”keep your seat,” said his father warngly, parseltongue
  ”to,” said the girl39s voice aga, now close they were clearly right beside the hoe, ”i ight be wrong — but has body nailed a snake to that door?”
  ”good lord, you39re right!” said the an39s voice ”that39ll be the n, i told you he39s not right the head don39t look at it, cecilia, darlg
  the jglg and cloppg unds were now grog fat aga
  ”39darlg,39” whispered orf parseltongue, lookg at his sister ”39darlg, he called her he wouldn39t have you anyway”
  rope was white harry felt sure she was gog to fat
  ”what39s that?” said gaunt sharply, al parseltongue, lookg fro his n to his daughter ”what did you say, orf?”
  ”she likes lookg at that le, ”said orf, a vicio expression on his face as he stared at his sister, who now looked terrified ”always the garden when he passes, peerg through the hed at hi, isn39t she? and st night — ”
  rope shook her head jerkily, iplorgly, but orf went on ruthlessly, ”hangg out of the dow waitg for hi to ride ho, wasn39t she?”
  ”hangg out of the dow to look at a le?” said gaunt ietly
  all three of the gaunts seed to have fotten ogden, who was lookg both bewildered and irritated at this renewed out
  eak of prehensible hissg and raspg
  ”is it true?” said gaunt a deadly voice, advancg a step or o toward the terrified girl ”y daughter—pure-blooded descendant of sazar slyther — hankerg after a filthy, dirt-veed le?”
  rope shook her head frantically, pressg herself to the wall, apparently unable to speak
  ”but i got hi, father!” cackled orf ”i got hi as he went by and he didn39t look pretty with hives all over hi, did he, rope?”
  ”you disgtg little sib, you filthy little blood traitor!” roared gaunt, losg ntrol, and his hands closed around his daughter39s throat
  both harry and ogden yelled ”no!” at the sa ti ogden raised his wand and cried, ”reskio!”
  gaunt was thrown backward, away fro his daughter he tripped over a chair and fell ft on his back with a roar of ra, orf leapt out of his chair and ran at ogden,
  andishg his bloody knife and firg hexes discriately fro his wand
  ogden ran for his life dubledore dicated that they ought to follow and harry obeyed, rope39s screas echog his ears
  ogden hurtled up the path and erupted onto the a ne, his ars over his head, where he llided with the glossy chestnut horse ridden by a very hand, dark-haired young an both he and the pretty girl ridg beside hi on a gray horse roared with ughter at the sight of ogden, who bounced off the horse39s fnk and set off aga, his frock at flyg, vered fro head to foot dt, runng pell-ll up the ne
  ”i thk that will do, harry,” said dubledore he took harry by the elbow and ed next ont, they were both arg weightlessly through darkness, until they nded sarely on their feet, back dubledore39s now ilit office
  ”what happened to the girl the tta?” said harry at once, as dubledore lit extra ps with a flick of his wand ”rope, or whatever her na was?”
  ”oh, she survived,” said dubledore, reseatg hiself behd his desk and dicatg that harry should sit down too ”ogden apparated back to the istry and returned with rercents with fifteen utes orf and his father attepted to fight, but both were overpowered, reoved fro the tta, and subse-ently nvicted by the wizengaot orf, who already had a rerd of le attacks, was sentenced to three years azkaban arvolo, who had jured several istry eployees addition to ogden, received six onths”
  ”arvolo?” harry repeated wondergly
  ”that39s right,” said dubledore, silg approva