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e ”no way!”
”he ight have been put under the iperi curse,” said ron reanably ”you never can tell”
”it doesn39t look like it,” said herione, who was still readg ”it says here he was arrested after he was overheard talkg about the death eaters39 secret pns a pub” she looked up with a troubled expression on her face ”if he was under the iperi curse, he39d hardly stand around gossipg about their pns, would he?”
”it unds like he was tryg to ake out he knew ore than he did,” said ron ”isn39t he the one who cid he was gog to be-e ister of agic when he was tryg to chat up those vee?”
”yeah, that39s hi,” said harry ”i dunno what they39re pyg at, takg stan serioly”
”they probably want to look as though they39re dog -thg,” said herione, frowng ”people are terrified — you know the patil s39 parents want the to go ho? and eloise idn has already been withdrawn her father picked her up st night”
”what!” said ron, lg at herione ”but hogwarts is safer than their hos, bound to be! we39ve got aurors, and all those extra protective spells, and we39ve got dubledore!”
”i don39t thk we39ve got hi all the ti,” said herione very ietly, gncg toward the staff table over the of the prophet ”haven39t you noticed? his seat39s been epty as often as hagrid39s this past week”
harry and ron looked up at the staff table the headaster39s chair was deed epty now harry ca to thk of it, he had not seen dubledore sce their private lesn a week ago
”i thk he39s left the school to do thg with the order,” said herione a low voice ”i an it39s all lookg serio, isn39t it?”
harry and ron did not answer, but harry knew that they were all thkg the sa thg there had been a horrible cident the day before, when hannah abbott had been taken out of herbology to be told her other had been found dead they had not seen hannah sce
when they left the gryffdor table five utes ter to head down to the idditch pitch, they passed vender
own and parvati patil reberg what herione had said about the patil s39 parents wantg the to leave hogwarts, harry was unsurprised to see that the o best friends were whisperg to-ther, lookg distressed what did surprise hi was that when ron drew level with the, parvati suddenly nudd vender, who looked around and gave ron a wide sile ron blked at her, then returned the sile uncertaly his walk stantly beca thg ore like a strut harry resisted the teptation to ugh, re-berg that ron had refraed fro dog after alfoy had
oken harry39s nose herione, however, looked ld and distant all the way down to the stadiu through the ol, isty drizzle, and departed to fd a pce the stands without wishg ron good ck
as harry had expected, the trials took ost of the orng half of gryffdor hoe seed to have turned up, fro first years who were nervoly ctchg a selection of the dreadful old school
oos, to seventh years who towered over the rest, lookg olly tiidatg the tter cded a r, wiry-haired boy harry regnized idiately fro the hogwarts express
”we t on the tra, old y39s partnt,” he said nfidently, steppg out of the crowd to shake harry39s hand ”rac en, keeper”
”you didn39t try out st year, did you?” asked harry, takg note of the
eadth of en and thkg that he would probably block all three goal hoops without even ovg
”i was the hospital g when they held the trials,” said en, with thg of a er ”ate a pound of doxy eggs for a bet”
”right,” said harry ”well if you wait over there ” he poted over to the ed of the pitch, close to where heri-one was sittg he thought he saw a flicker of annoyance pass over en39s face and wondered whether en expected pref-erential treatnt becae they were both ”old y39s” favorites harry decided to start with a basic test, askg all applicants for the tea to divide to groups of ten and fly once around the pitch this was a good decision: the first ten was ade up of first years, and it uld not have been per that they had hardly ever flown before only one boy anad to rea airborne for ore than a few sends, and he was surprised he proptly crashed to one of the goal posts
the send group was prised of ten of the silliest girls harry had eve