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y whole faily are blood traitors! that39s as bad as le-borns to death eaters!”
”and they39d love to have ,” said harry sarcastically ”we39d be best pals if they didn39t keep tryg to do ”
this ade ron ugh even herione gave a grudgg sile, and a distraction arrived the shape of gny
”hey, harry, i39 supposed to give you this”
it was a scroll of parchnt with harry39s na written upon it failiar th, sntg writg
”thanks, gny it39s dubledore39s next lesn!” harry told ron and herione, pullg open the parchnt and ickly read-g its ntents ”onday eveng!” he felt suddenly light and happy ”want to jo hogsade, gny?” he asked
”i39 gog with dean — ight see you there,” she replied, wav-g at the as she left
filch was standg at the oak front doors as ual, checkg off the nas of people who had perission to go to hogsade the process took even lonr than noral as filch was triple-checkg everybody with his secrecy senr
”what does it atter if we39re lg dark stuff out?” de-anded ron, eyeg the long th secrecy senr with apprehen-sion ”surely you ought to be checkg what we
g back ?”
his cheek earned hi a few extra jabs with the senr, and he was still cg as they stepped out to the d and sleet
the walk to hogsade was not enjoyable harry wrapped his scarf over his lower face the exposed part on felt both raw and nub the road to the vil was full of students bent double agast the bitter d ore than once harry wondered whether they ight not have had a better ti the war on roo, and when they fally reached hogsade and saw that zonko39s joke shop had been boarded up, harry took it as nfiration that this trip was not dested to be fun ron poted, with a thickly gloved hand, toward honeydukes, which was rcifully open, and harry and herione ered his wake to the crowded shop
”thank god,” shivered ron as they were enveloped by war, toffee-scented air ”let39s stay here all afternoon”
”harry, 39boy!” said a boog voice fro behd the
”oh no,” uttered harry the three of the turned to see pro-fesr sghorn, who was wearg an enoro furry hat and an overat with atchg fur lr, ctchg a r bag of crystalized peapple, and oupyg at least a arter of the shop
”harry, that39s three of y little suppers you39ve issed now!” said sghorn, pokg hi nially the chest ”it won39t do, 39boy, i39 detered to have you! iss granr loves the, don39t you?”
”yes,” said herione helplessly, ”they39re really —”
” why don39t you e along, harry?” deanded sghorn
”well, i39ve had idditch practice, profesr,” said harry, who had deed been schedulg practices every ti sghorn had sent hi a little, violet ribbon-adorned vitation this strategy ant that ron was not left out, and they ually had a ugh with gny, iagg herione shut up with en and zabi
”well, i certaly expect you to your first atch after all the, hard work!” said sghorn ”but a little recreation never hurt any body now, how about onday night, you can39t possibly want to practice this weather”
”i can39t, profesr, i39ve got — er — an appotnt with profes-r dubledore that eveng”
”uncky aga!” cried sghorn draatically ”ah, well you can39t evade forever, harry!”
and with a regal wave, he waddled out of the shop, takg as lit-tle notice of ron as though he had been a dispy of ckroach csters
”i can39t believe you39ve led out of another one,” said herione, shakg her head ”they39re not that bad, you know they39re even ite fun tis ” but then she caught sight of ron39s expression ”oh, look — they39ve got dexe sugar ills — those would st hours!”
gd that herione had chand the subject, harry showed uch ore terest the new extra-r sugar ills than he would norally have done, but ron ntued to look oody and rely ed when herione asked hi where he wanted to go next
”let39s go to the three
oosticks,” said harry ”it39ll be war”
they bundled their scarves back over their faces and left the sweetshop the bitter d was like knives on their faces after the sugary warth of honeydukes the street was not very by no-
body was lrg to ch