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  sherry aga ”i haven39t seen you y csses tely ”
  ”no, i39ve got firenze this year,” said na
  ”oh, of urse,” said profesr trewney with an angry, drunken titter ”or dobb, as i prefer to thk of hi you would have thought, would you not, that now i a returned to the school profesr dubledore ight have got rid of the horse? but no we share csses  it39s an sult, frankly, an sult do you know ” profesr trewney seed too tipsy to have regnized harry
  under ver of her furio criticiss of firenze, harry drew closer to herione and said, ”let 39 s t thg straight are you pnng to tell ron that you terfered at keeper tryouts?”
  herione raised her eye
  ows ”do you really thk i39d stoop that low?”
  -=-harry looked at her shrewdly ”herione, if you can ask 0111 en —”
  ”there39s a difference,” said herione with dignity ”i39ve got no pns to tell ron anythg about what ight, or ight not, have happened at keeper tryouts”
  ”good,” said harry fervently ”becae he39ll jt fall apart aga, and we39ll lose the next atch —”
  ”idditch!” said herione angrily ”is that all boys care about? rac hasn39t asked one sgle estion about yself, no, i39ve jt been treated to 39a hundred great saves ade by rac en39 nons ever sce — oh no, here he es!” she oved fast it was as though she had disapparated one ont she was there, the next, she had seezed beeen o guffag witches and vanished
  ”seen herione?” asked en, forcg his way through the throng a ute ter
  ”no, rry,” said harry, and he turned ickly to jo na39s nversation, fettg for a split send to who she was talkg
  ”harry potter!” said profesr trewney deep, vi
  ant tones, noticg hi for the first ti
  ”oh, hello,” said harry unenthiastically
  ”y dear boy!” she said a very carryg whisper ”the ruors! the stories! 39the chosen one39! of urse, i have known for a very long ti  the ons were never good, harry  but why have you not returned to divation? for you, of all people, the subject is of the utost iportance!”
  ”ah, sybi l l, we all thk our subject39s ost iportant!” said a loud voice, and sghorn appeared at profesr trewney s other side, his face very red, his velvet hat a little askew, a gss of ad one hand and an enoro ce pie the other ”but i don39t t hk i39ve ever known such a natural at potions!” said sghorn, re-gardg harry with a fond, if bloodshot, eye ”stctive, you know — like his other! i39ve only ever taught a few with this kd of ability, i can tell you that, sybi l l — why even sever —” and to harry39s horror, sghorn threw out an ar and seed to sop snape out of th air toward the ”s skulkg and e and jo , sever!” uped sghorn happily ”i was jt talkg about harry39s exceptional po-tion-akg! credit t go to you, of urse, you taught hi for five years!”
  trapped, with sghorns ar around his shoulders, snape looked down his hooked nose at harry, his bck eyes narrowed ”funny, i never had the ipression that i anad to teach potter anythg at all”
  ”well, then, it39s natural ability!” shouted sghorn ”you should have seen what he gave , first lesn, draught of livg death — never had a student produce fer on a first attept, i don39t thk even you, sever —”
  ”really?” said snape ietly, his eyes still borg to harry, who felt a certa disiet the st thg he wanted was for snape to start vestigatg the urce of his newfound
  illiance at potions
  ”red what other subjects you39re takg, harry?” asked sghorn
  ”defense agast the d ark arts, chars, transfiguration , herbology”
  ”all the subjects reired, short, for an auror ,” said snap e with the fatest sneer
  ”yeah, well, that39s what i39d like to do,” said harry defiantly
  ”and a great one you39ll ake too!” bood sghorn
  ”i don39t thk you should be an auror, harry,” said na unex pectedly everybody looked at her ”the aurors are part of the rotfang nspiracy, i thought everyone knew that they39re pn