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  w harry and ron ed and wrenched at the ves, forcg the hole to open aga, and heri-one snatched her ar free, ctchg her frs a pod jt like neville39s at once, the prickly ves shot back side, and the gnarled stup sat there lookg like an nocently dead p of wood
  ”you know, i don39t thk i39ll be havg any of these y garden when i39ve got y own pce,” said ron, phg his les up onto his forehead and wipg sweat fro his face
  ”pass a bowl,” said herione, holdg the pulsatg pod at ar39s length harry handed one over and she dropped the pod to it with a look of disgt on her face
  ”don39t be seaish, seeze it out, they39re best when they39re fresh!” called profesr sprout
  ”anyway,” said herione, ntug their terrupted nver-sation as though a p of wood had not jt attacked the, ”sghorn39s gog to have a christas party, harry, and there39s no way you39ll be able to le out of this one becae he actually asked to check your free evengs, he uld be sure to have it on a night you can e”
  harry groaned anwhile, ron, who was atteptg to burst the pod the bowl by puttg both hands on it, standg up, and sashg it as hard as he uld, said angrily, ”and this is another party jt for sghorn39s favorites, is it?”
  ”jt for the sg cb, yes,” said herione
  the pod flew out fro under ron39s frs and hit the green hoe gss, reboundg onto the back of profesr sprout39s head and knockg off her old, patched hat harry went to retrieve the pod when he got back, herione was sayg, ”look, i didn39t ake up the na 39sg cb39 —”
  ”39sg cb,39”repeated ron with a sneer worthy of alfoy ”it39s pathetic well, i hope you enjoy your party why don39t you try hookg up with en, then sghorn can ake you kg and een sg —”
  ”we39re allowed to
  g guests,” said herione, who for rean had turned a
  ight, boilg scarlet, ”and i was gog to ask you to e, but if you thk it39s that stupid then i won39t bother!”
  harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little farther, that he need not have been sittg here with the pair of the unno-ticed by either, he seized the bowl that ntaed the pod and be-gan to try and open it by the noisiest and ost enertic ans he uld thk of unfortunately, he uld still hear every word of their nversation
  ”you were gog to ask ?” asked ron, a pletely differ-ent voice
  ”yes,” said herione angrily ”but obvioly if you39d rather 1 hooked up with en ”
  there was a pae while harry ntued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel
  ”no, i wouldn39t,” said ron, a very iet voice
  harry issed the pod, hit the bowl, and shattered it
  ‘”reparo,”39 he said hastily, pokg the pieces with his wand, and the bowl sprang back tother aga the crash, however, appeared to have awoken ron and herione to harry39s presence herione looked fstered and idiately started fsg about for her py of “flesh-eatg trees of the world” to fd out the rrect way to juice snargaff pods ron, on the other hand, looked sheepish but al rather pleased with hiself
  ”hand that over, harry,” said herione hurriedly ”it says we39re supposed to puncture the with thg sharp  ”
  harry passed her the pod the bowl he and ron both snapped their les back over their eyes and dived, once ore, for the stup it was not as though he was really surprised, thought harry, as he wrestled with a thorny ve tent upon throttlg hi he had had an klg that this ight happen oner or ter but he was not sure how he felt about it he and cho were now too e-barrassed to look at each other, let alone talk to each other what if ron and herione started gog out tother, then split up? uld their friendship survive it? harry rebered the few weeks when they had not been talkg to each other the third year he had not enjoyed tryg to
  id the distance beeen the and then, what if they didn39t split up? what if they beca like bill and fleur, and it beca excruciatgly ebarrassg to be their presence, that he was shut out for good?
  ”gotcha!” yelled ron, pullg a send pod fro the stup jt as herione anad to burst the first one open, that the bowl was full of tubers lg like pale green wors
  the rest of the lesn passed without further ntion of sghorn39s party although harry watched his o friends ore closely over the next few days, ro