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d the ask of lord voldeort39 behd which he has been hidden for long
”i trt that you al noticed that to riddle was already highly self-sufficient, secretive, and, apparently, friendless? he did not want help or panionship on his trip to diagon alley he preferred to operate alone the adult voldeort is the sa you will hear any of his death eaters cig that they are his nfidence, that they alone are close to hi, even understand hi they are deded lord voldeort has never had a friend, nor do i believe that he has ever wanted one
”and stly ?i hope you are not too sleepy to pay attention to this, harry ?the young to riddle liked to llect trophies you saw the box of stolen articles he had hidden his roo these were taken fro victis of his bullyg behavior, uvenirs, if you will, of particurly unpleasant bits of agic bear d this agpie-like tendency, for this, particurly, will be iportant ter
”and now, it really is ti for bed”
harry got to his feet as he walked across the roo, his eyes fell i upon the little table on which arvolo gaunt39s rg had rested st i ti, but the rg was no lonr there
”yes, harry?” said dubledore, for harry had e to a halt i
”the rg39s gone,” said harry, lookg around ”but i thought i you ight have the outh an or thg”
dubledore bead at hi, peerg over the of his hall39 oon spectacles
”very astute, harry, but the outh an was only ever a outh an”
and on that enigatic note he waved to harry, who understood hiself to be disissed
chapter 14: felix felicis
harry had herbology first thg the follog orng he had been unable to tell ron and herione about his lesn with dubledore over
eakfast for fear of beg over-heard, but he filled the as they walked across the vetable patch toward the greenhoes the weekend’s
utal d had died out at st the weird ist had returned and it took the a little lonr than ual to fd the rrect greenhoe
”wow, scary thought, the boy you-know-who,” said ron i-etly, as they took their pces around one of the gnarled snargaff stups that ford this ters project, and began pullg on their protective gloves ”but i still don39t t why dubledore39s shog you all this i an, it39s really terestg and everythg, but what39s the pot?”
”dunno,” said harry, sertg a gu shield ”but he says its all iportant and it39ll help survive”
”i thk it39s fascatg,” said herione earnestly ”it akes abte sense to know as uch about voldeort as possible how else will you fd out his weaknesses?”
” how was sghorn39s test party?” harry asked her thickly through the gu shield
”oh, it was ite fun, really,” said herione, now puttg on protective les ”i an, he drones on about fao exploits a bit, and he abtely fawns on en becae he39s well nnected, but he gave really nice food and he troduced to gwenog jones”
”gwenog jones?” said ron, his eyes wideng under his own les ”the gwenog jones? capta of the holyhead harpies?”
”that39s right,” said herione ”pernally, i thought she was a bit full of herself, but —”
”ite enough chat over here!” said profesr sprout
iskly, btlg over and lookg stern ”you39re g behd, everybody else has started, and neville39s already got his first pod!”
they looked around sure enough, there sat neville with a bloody lip and several nasty scratches along the side of his face, but ctchg an unpleasantly pulsatg green object about the size of a grapefruit
”okay, profesr, we39re startg now!” said ron, addg ietly, when she had turned away aga, ”should ve ed uffliato, harry”
”no, we shouldn39t!” said herione at once, lookg, as she always did, tensely cross at the thought of the half-blood prce and his spells ”well, e on we39d better t gog ”
she gave the other o an apprehensive look they all took deep
eaths and then dived at the gnarled stup beeen the
it sprang to life at once long, prickly,
ablelike ves flew out of the and whipped through the air one tangled itself herione39s hair, and ron beat it back with a pair of secateurs harry eeded trappg a uple of ves and knottg the tother a hole opened the iddle of all the tentaclelike
anches herione pnd her ar
avely to this hole, which closed like a trap around her elbo