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  r enuntered, who, when he blew his whistle, rely fell about lg and ctchg one another roilda vane was aongst the when he told the to leave the pitch, they did ite cheerfully and went to sit the stands to heckle everyone else
  the third group had a pileup halfway around the pitch ost of the fourth group had e without
  oosticks the fifth group were hufflepuffs
  ”if there39s anyone else here who39s not fro gryffdor,” roared harry, who was startg to t serioly annoyed, ”leave now, please!
  there was a pae, then a uple of little ravencws went sprtg off the pitch, snortg with ughter
  after o hours, any pts, and several tantrus, one -volvg a crashed et o sixty and several
  oken teeth, harry had found hiself three chasers: katie bell, returned to the tea after an excellent trial a new fd called delza robs, who was particurly good at dodgg bdrs and gny weasley, who had outflown all the petition and sred seventeen goals to boot pleased though he was with his choices, harry had al shouted hiself hoarse at the any pers and was now endurg a siir battle with the rejected beaters
  ”that39s y fal decision and if you don39t t out of the way of the keepers i39ll hex you,” he bellowed
  neither of his chosen beaters had the old
  illiance of fred and e, but he was still reanably pleased with the: jiy peakes, a short but
  oad-chested third-year boy who had anad to raise a p the size of an egg on the back of harry39s head with a ferocioly hit bdr, and ritchie ote, who looked weedy but aid well they now joed katie, delza, and gny the stands to watch the selection of their st tea ber
  harry had deliberately left the trial of the keepers until st, hopg for an eptier stadiu and less pressure on all ncerned unfortunately, however, all the rejected pyers and a nuber of people who had e down to watch after a lengthy
  eakfast had joed the crowd by now, that it was rr than ever as each keeper flew up to the goal hoops, the crowd roared and jeered eal asure harry gnced over at ron, who had always had a proble with nerves harry had hoped that ng their fal atch st ter ight have cured it, but apparently not: ron was a delicate shade of green
  none of the first five applicants saved ore than o goals apiece to harry39s great disappotnt, rac en saved four penalties out of five on the st one, however, he shot off pletely the wrong direction the crowd ughed and booed and en returned to the ground grdg his teeth
  ron looked ready to pass out as he ounted his cleansweep eleven ”good ck!” cried a voice fro the stands harry looked around, expectg to see herione, but it was vender
  own he would have ite liked to have hidden his face his hands, as she did a ont ter, but thought that as the capta he ought to show slightly ore grit, and turned to watch ron do his trial
  yet he need not have worried: ron saved one, o, three, four, five penalties a row delighted, and resistg jog the cheers of the crowd with difficulty, harry turned to en to tell hi that, ost unfortunately, ron had beaten hi, only to fd en39s red face ches fro his own he stepped back hastily
  ”his sister didn39t really try,” said en nacgly there was a ve pulsg his teple like the one harry had often ad-ired uncle vernon39s ”she gave hi an easy save”
  ”rubbish,” said harry ldly ”that was the one he nearly issed”
  en took a step nearer harry, who stood his ground this ti
  ”give another go”
  ”no,” said harry ”you39ve had your go you saved four ron saved five ron39s keeper, he won it fair and sare t out of y way”
  he thought for a ont that en ight punch hi, but he ntented hiself with an ugly griace and stord away, growlg what unded like threats to th air
  harry turned around to fd his new tea beag at hi
  ”well done,” he croaked ”you flew really well —”
  ”you did
  illiantly, ron!”
  this ti it really was herione runng toward the fro the stands harry saw vender walkg off the pitch, ar ar with parvati, a rather grupy expression on her face ron looked extrely pleased with hiself and even taller than ual as he grned at the tea and at herione
  after fixg the ti of their first full practice for the follog thursday, harry, ron, and herione bade good-bye to the rest of the tea and headed off toward hagrid39s a watery sun was tryg to
  eak through the clouds