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  n and herione did not see any different except that they were a little politer to each other than ual harry supposed he would jt have to wait to see what
  happened under the fence of butterbeer sghorn39s dily lit roo on the night of the party the anti, however, he had ore pressg worries
  katie bell was still st ungo39s hospital with no prospect of leavg, which ant that the proisg gryffdor tea harry had been trag carefully sce septeber was one chaser short he kept puttg off repcg katie the hope that she would return, but their openg atch agast slyther was loo-g, and he fally had to aept that she would not be back ti to py
  harry did not thk he uld stand another full-hoe tryout with a skg feelg that had little to do with idditch, he r-nered dean thoas after transfiguration one day ost of the css had already left, although several itterg yellow birds were still zoog around the roo, all of herione39s creation nobody else had eeded njurg uch as a feather fro th air
  ”are you still terested pyg chaser?”
  ”wha — ? yeah, of urse!” said dean excitedly over dean’s shoulder, harry saw sea fnegan sg his books to his bag, lookg ur one of the reans why harry would have pre-ferred not to have to ask dean to py was that he knew sea would not like it on the other hand, he had to do what was best for the tea, and dean had outflown sea at the tryouts
  ”well then, you39re ,” said harry ”there39s a practice tonight, seven o39clock”
  ”right,” said dean ”cheers, harry! bliy, i can39t wait to tell gny!”
  he sprted out of the roo, leavg harry and sea alone tother, an unfortable ont ade no easier when a bird droppg nded on sea39s head as one of herione39s canaries whizzed over the
  sea was not the only pern disgruntled by the choice of katie’s substitute there was uch utterg the on roo about the fact that harry had now chosen o of his css-ates for the tea as harry had endured uch worse uttergs than this his school career, he was not particurly bothered, but all the sa, the pressure was creasg to provide a  the upg atch agast slyther if gryffdor won, harry knew that the whole hoe would fet that they had criticized hi and swear that they had always known it was a great tea if they lost  well, harry thought wryly, he had still endured worse uttergs
  harry had no rean to regret his choice once he saw dean fly that eveng he worked well with gny and delza the beaters, peakes and ote, were ttg better all the ti the only proble was ron
  harry had known all along that ron was an nsistent pyer who suffered fro nerves and a ck of nfidence, and unfortu-nately, the loog prospect of the openg ga of the sean seed to have
  ought out all his old securities after lettg half a dozen goals, ost of the sred by gny, his technie beca wilder and wilder, until he fally punched an ong delza robs the outh
  ”it was an aident, i39 rry, delza, really rry!” ron shouted after her as she ed back to the ground, drippg blood everywhere ”i jt —”
  ”panicked,” gny said angrily, ndg next to delza and exag her fat lip ”you prat, ron, look at the state of her!”
  ”i can fix that,” said harry, ndg beside the o girls, potg his wand at delzas outh, and sayg ”episkey” ”and gny, don39t call ron a prat, you39re not the capta of this tea —”
  ”well, you seed too by to call hi a prat and i thought one should —”
  harry forced hiself not to ugh
  ” the air, everyone, let39s go  ”
  overall it was one of the worst practices they had had all ter, though harry did not feel that honesty was the best policy when they were this close to the atch
  ”good work, everyone, i thk we39ll ftten slyther,” he said
  acgly, and the chasers and beaters left the changg roo lookg reanably happy with theselves
  ”i pyed like a sack of dragon dung,” said ron a hollow voice when the door had swung shut behd gny
  ”no, you didn39t,” said harry firly ”you39re the best keeper i tried out, ron your only proble is nerves”
  he kept up a relentless flow of enurant all the way back to the castle, and by the ti they reached the send floor, ron was lookg argally ore cheerful when harry phed open the tapestry to take their ual shortcut up to gryffdor tower, h