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uppose that39s true but wasn39t that dis-honest, herione? i an, you39re a prefect, aren39t you?”
”oh, be iet,” she snapped, as he sirked
”what are you o dog?” deanded ron, reappearg the doorway to the great hall and lookg spicio
”nothg,” said harry and herione tother, and they hurried after ron the sll of roast beef ade harry39s stoach ache with hunr, but they had barely taken three steps toward the gryffdor table when profesr sghorn appeared front of the, blockg their path
”harry, harry, jt the an i was hopg to see!” he bood -nially, iddlg the ends of his walr tache and puffg out his enoro belly, ”i was hopg to catch you before dner! what do you say to a spot of supper tonight y roos stead? we39re havg a little party, jt a few risg stars, i39ve got en -g and zabi, the charg lda bobb — i don39t know whether you know her? her faily owns a r cha of apothe-caries — and, of urse, i hope very uch that iss granr will favor by g too”
sghorn ade herione a little bow as he fished speakg it was as though ron was not present sghorn did not uch as look at hi
”i can39t e, profesr,” said harry at once ”i39ve got a deten-tion with profesr snape”
”oh dear!” said sghorn, his face fallg ically ”dear, dear, i was untg on you, harry! well, now, i39ll jt have to have a word with sever and exp the situation i39 sure i39ll be able to per-suade hi to postpone your detention yes, i39ll see you both ter!” he btled away out of the hall
”he39s got no chance of persuadg snape,” said harry, the o-nt sghorn was out of earshot ”this detentions already been postponed once snape did it for dubledore, but he won39t do it for anyone else”
”oh, i wish you uld e, i don39t want to go on y own!” said herione anxioly harry knew that she was thkg about en
”i doubt you39ll be alone, gny39ll probably be vited,” snapped ron, who did not see to have taken kdly to beg ignored by sghorn
after dner they ade their way back to gryffdor tower the on roo was very crowded, as ost people had fished dner by now, but they anad to fd a free table and sat down ron, who had been a bad ood ever sce the enunter with sghorn, folded his ars and frowned at the ceilg herione reached out for a py of the eveng prophet, which body had left abandoned on a chair
”anythg new?” said harry
”not really ” herione had opened the newspaper and was scanng the side pas ”oh, look, your dad39s here, ron — he39s all right!” she added ickly, for ron had looked around ar ”it jt says he39s been to visit the alfoys39 hoe 39this sec-ond search of the death eaters residence does not see to have yielded any results arthur weasley of the office for the detection and nfis-cation of unterfeit defensive spells and protective objects said that his tea had been actg upon a nfidential tip-off39”
”yeah, e!” said harry ”i told hi at kgs cross about alfoy and that thg he was tryg to t b to fix! well, if it39s not at their hoe, he t have
ought whatever it is to hogwarts with hi —”
”but how can he have done, harry?” said herione, puttg down the newspaper with a surprised look ”we were all searched when we arrived, weren39t we?”
”were you?” said harry, taken aback ”i wasn39t!”
”oh no, of urse you weren39t, i fot you were te well, filch ran over all of with secrecy senrs when we got to the entrance hall any dark object would have been found, i know for a fact crabbe had a shrunken head nfiscated you see, alfoy can39t have
ought anythg danro!”
ontarily styied, harry watched gny weasley pyg with arnold the pygy puff for a while before seeg a way around this objection
”one39s sent it to hi by owl, then,” he said ”his other or one”
”all the owls are beg checked too,” said herione ”filch told when he was jabbg those secrecy senrs everywhere he uld reach”
really stuped this ti, harry found nothg else to say there did not see to be any way alfoy uld have
ought a danro or dark object to the school he looked hopefully at ron, who was sittg with his ars folded, starg over at vender
own
”can you thk of any way alfoy — ?”