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  h dean harry tried to feel pleased that gny was gd he was takg na to the party but uld not ite ana it a long way along the table herione was sittg alone, pyg with her stew harry noticed ron lookg at her furtively
  ”you uld say rry , ” ested harry bntly
  ”what , and t attacked by another flock of canaries?” uttered ron
  ”what did you have to iitate her for?”
  ”she ughed at y tache!”
  ” did i, it was the stupidest thg i39ve ever seen”
  but ron did not see to have he a rd vender had jt arrived with parvati seezg herself beeen harry and ron, vender fng her ars around ron39s neck
  ”hi, harry,” said parvati who, like harry, looked fatly ebarrassed and bored by the behavior of their o friends
  ”hi,” said harry, ”how39re you? you39re stayg at hogwarts, then? i heard your parents wanted you to leave”
  ”i anad to talk the out o f it for the ti beg,” said parvati ”that katie thg really freaked the out, but as there hasn39t been anythg sce oh, hi, herione!”
  parvati positively bead harry uld tell that she was feelg guilty for havg ughed at herione transfiguration he looked around and saw that herione was beag back, if possible even ore
  ightly girls were very stran tis
  ”hi, parvati!” said herione, ignorg ron and vender pletely ”are you gog to sghorn39s party tonight?”
  ”no vite,” said parvati glooily ”i39d love to go, though, it unds like it39s gog to be really good you39re gog, aren39t you?”
  ”yes, i39 etg rac at eight, and we39re -”
  there was a noise like a pnr beg withdrawn fro a blocked sk , and ron surfaced herione acted as though she had not seen or heard anythg
  ”- we39re gog up to the party tother”
  ”rac?” said parvati ”rac en, you an?”
  ”that39s right,” said herione sweetly ”the one who alost” - she put a great deal of ephasis on the word - ”bec a gryffdor keeper”
  ”are you gog out with hi, then?” asked parvati, wide-eyed
  ”oh - yes - didn39t you know?” said harione, with a ost un-herione-ish le
  ”no!” said parvati, lookg positively agog at thi s piece of gossip ”wow , you like your idditch pyers, don39t you? first kru, then en ”
  ”i like really good idditch pyers,” herione rrected her, still silg ”well, see you got to go and t ready for the party”
  she left at once vender and parvati put their heads tother to discs this new developnt, with everythg they had ever heard about en, and all they had ever guessed about herione ron looked stranly bnk and said nothg harry was left to ponder silence the depths to which girls would sk to t reven
  when he arrived the entrance hall at eight o39clock that night, he found an unually r nuber of girls rkg there, all of who seed to be starg at hi resentfully as he approached na she was wearg a set of spangled silver robes that were attractg a certa aount of les fro the onlookers, but otherwise she looked ite nice harry was gd, any case, that she had left off her radish earrgs, her butterbeer rk neckce, and her spectrespecs
  ”hi,” he said ”shall we t gog then?”
  ”oh yes,” she said happily ”where is the party?”
  ”sghorn39s office,” said harry, leadg her up the arble staircase away fro all the starg and utterg ”did you hear, there39s supposed to be a vapire g?”
  ”ruf scriour?” asked na
  ”i - what?” said harry, disncerted ”you an the ister of agic?”
  ”yes, he39s a vapire,” said na atter-of-factly ”father wrote a very long article about it when scriour first took over fro rneli fud, but he was forced not to publish by body fro the istry obvioly, they didn39t want the truth to t out!”
  harry, who thought it ost unlikely that ruf scriour was a vapire, but who was ed to na repeatg her father39s bizarre views as though they were fact, did not reply they were already approachg sghorn39s office and the