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  g down the istry of agic fro with g a c o bation of dark agic and gu disease”
  harry haled half his ad up his nose as he started to u gh really, it had been worth
  gg na jt for this ergg, fro his goblet, ughg, ppg wet but still grng, he saw thg calcuted to raise his spirits even higher: dra alf o y beg ed by the ear toward the by arg filch
  ”profesr sghorn,” wheezed filch, his jowls aiver and the aniacal light of ischief-detection his bulgg eyes, ”i disvered this boy rkg an upstairs rridor he cis to have been vited to your party and to have been deyed settg out did you issue hi with an vitation?”
  alfoy pulled hiself free of filchs grip, lookg furio ”all right, i wasn39t vited!” he said angrily ”i was tryg to gate crash, happy?”
  ”no, i39 not!” said filch, a statent at plete odds with the glee on his face ”you39re trouble, you are! didn39t the heada ster say that nightti prowlg 39 s out, unless you39ve got perission, didn39t he, eh?”
  -=-”that39s all right, arg, that39s all right,” said sghorn, wavg it 11 nd ”it39s christas, and it39s not a cri to want to e to a party jt this once, we39ll fet any punishnt you ay stay , dra
  fil ich39s expression of outrad disappotnt was perfectly pre di c t able but why, harry wondered, watchg hi, did alfoy look alost eally unhappy? and why was snape lookg at al-foy as though both angry and  was it p ossible? a lit tl afraid? but alost before harry had registered what he had seen, filch had turned and shuffled away, utterg under his
  eath alfoy h ad posed his face to a sile and was thankg sghorn for his nerosity, and snape39s face was soothly scrutable aga
  ”it39s nothg, nothg,” said sghorn, wavg away alfoy39s t hanks ”i did know your grandfather, after all”
  ”he always spoke very highly of you, sir,” said alfoy ickly ”said you were the best potion-aker he39d ever known ”
  harry stared at alfoy it was not the suckg-up that trigued hi he had watched alfoy do that to snape for a long ti it was the fact that alfoy did, after all, look a little ill this was the first ti he had seen alfoy close up for as he now saw that alfoy had dark shadows under his eyes and a distctly grayish t to his sk
  ”i39d like a word with you, dra,” said snape suddenly
  ”now , sever,” said sghorn, upg aga, ”it39s christ as, do n39t be too hard —”
  ”i a his head of hoe, and i shall decide how hard, or other-wise, to be,” said snape curtly ”follow , dra”
  they left, snape leadg the way, alfoy lookg resentful harry stood there for a ont, irrete, then said, ”i39ll be back a bit, na — er — bathroo”
  ”all right,” she said cheerfully, and he thought he heard her, as he hurried off to the crowd, resu the subject of the rotfang nspiracy with profesr trewney, who seed scerely terested it was easy, once out of the party, to pull his visibility cloak out of his pocket and throw it over hiself, for the rridor was ite deserted what was ore difficult was fdg snape and alfoy harry ran down the rridor, the noise of his feet asked by the ic and loud talk still issug fro sghorn39s office behd hi perhaps snape had taken alfoy to his office the dunons or perhaps he was esrtg hi back to the slyt her on roo  harry pressed his ear agast door after door as he dashed down the rridor until, with a great jolt of excitent, he crouched down to the keyhole of the st cssroo the rridor and heard voices
  ”  cannot afford istakes, dra, becae if you are expelled —”
  ”i didn39t have anythg to do with it, all right?”
  ”i hope you are tellg the truth, becae it was both csy a nd foolish already you are spected of havg a hand it”
  ”who spects ?” said alfoy angrily ”for the st ti, i didn39t do it, okay? that bell girl t 39 ve had an eney no on e knows about — don39t look at like that! i know what you39re do-g, i39 not stupid, but it won39t work — i can s you!”
  there was a pae and then snape said ietly, ”ah  aunt beltrix has been teachg you oncy, i see