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ads facg however, rest assured that he will not be akg away with any ore of siri39s old possessions”
”that angy old half-blood has been stealg bck heirloos?” said pheas nils, censed and he stalked out of his fra, undoubtedly to visit his portrait nuber elve, griauld pce
”profesr,” said harry, after a short pae, ”did profesr cgonagall tell you what i told her after katie got hurt? about dra alfoy?”
”she told of your spicions, yes,” said dubledore
”and do you ??”
”i shall take all appropriate asures to vestigate anyone who ight have had a hand katie39s aident,” said dubledore ”but what ncerns now, harry, is our lesn”
harry felt slightly resentful at this: if their lesns were very iportant, why had there been such a long gap beeen the first and send? however, he said no ore about dra alfoy, but watched as dubledore poured the fresh ories to the pensieve and began swirlg the stone bas once ore beeen his long-fred hands
”you will reber, i a sure, that we left the tale of lord voldeort39s begngs at the pot where the hand le, to riddle, had abandoned his witch wife, rope, and returned to his faily ho little hangleton rope was left alone london, expectg the baby who would one day bee lord voldeort”
”how do you know she was london, sir?”
”becae of the evidence of one caractac burke,” said dubledore, ”who, by an odd cidence, helped found the very shop whence ca the neckce we have jt been discsg”
he swilled the ntents of the pensieve as harry had seen hi swill the before, uch as a gold prospector sifts for gold up out of the swirlg, silvery ass rose a little old an revolvg slowly the pensieve, silver as a ghost but uch ore lid, with a thatch of hair that pletely vered his eyes
”yes, we acired it curio circustances it was
ought by a young witch jt before christas, oh, any years ago now she said she needed the gold badly, well, that uch was obvio vered rags and pretty far along gog to have a baby, see she said the locket had been slyther39s well, we hear that rt of story all the ti, 39oh, this was rl39s, this was, his favorite teapot,39 but when i looked at it, it had his ark all right, and a few siple spells were enough to tell the truth of urse, that ade it near enough priceless she didn39t see to have any idea how uch it was worth happy to t ten galleons for it best barga we ever ade!”
dubledore gave the pensieve an extra-vigoro shake and caractac burke descended back to the swirlg ass of ory fro whence he had e
”he only gave her ten galleons?” said harry dignantly
”caractac burke was not fad for his nerosity,” said dubledore ” we know that, near the end of her pregnancy, rope was alone london and desperate need of gold, desperate enough to sell her one and only vaable possession, the locket that was one of arvolo39s treasured faily heirloos”
”but she uld do agic!” said harry ipatiently ”she uld have got food and everythg for herself by agic, uldn39t she?”
”ah,” said dubledore, ”perhaps she uld but it is y belief—i a guessg aga, but i a sure i a right ?that when her hband abandoned her, rope sped g agic i do not thk that she wanted to be a witch any lonr of urse, it is al possible that her unreited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers that can happen any case, as you are about to see, rope refed to raise her wand even to save her own life”
”she wouldn39t even stay alive for her n?”
dubledore raised his eye
ows ”uld you possibly be feelg rry for lord voldeort?”
”no,” said harry ickly, ”but she had a choice, didn39t she, not like y other ?“
”your other had a choice too,” said dubledore ntly ”yes, rope riddle chose death spite of a n who needed her, but do not jud her too harshly, harry she was greatly weakened by long sufferg and she never had your other39s ura and now, if you will stand ”
”where are we gog?” harry asked, as dubledore joed hi at the front of the desk
”this ti,” said dubledore, ”we are gog to enter y ory i thk you will fd it both rich detail and satisfygly aurate after you, harry ”
harry bent over the pensieve his face
oke the ol surface of the ory and then he was fal