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anythg,” said harry he hesitated for a ont, wonderg how best to ebark on what he wanted to say as he arshaled his thoughts, celesta warbeck began a bald called ”you chard the heart right out of ”
”r weasley, you know what i told you at the station when we were settg off for school?”
”i checked, harry,” said r weasley at once ”i went and searched the alfoys39 hoe there was nothg, either
oken or whole, that shouldn39t have been there”
”yeah, i know, i saw the prophet that you39d looked but this is thg different well, thg ore ”
and he told r weasley everythg he had overheard beeen
alfoy and snape, as harry spoke, he saw p39s head turn a lit-tle toward hi, takg every word when he had fished, there was silence, except for celesta39s croong
oh, y poor heart, where has it gone? it39s left for a spell
”has it ourred to you, harry,” said r weasley, ”that snape was siply pretendg — ?”
”pretendg to offer help, that he uld fd out what alfoy39s up to?” said harry ickly ”yeah, i thought you39d say that but how do we know?”
”it isn39t our bess to know,” said p unexpectedly he had turned his back on the fire now and faced harry across r weasley ”it39s dubledore’s bess dubledore trts sever, and that ought to be good enough for all of ”
”but,” said harry, ”jt say — jt say dubledores wrong about snape —”
”people have said it, any tis it es down to whether or not you trt dubledore’s judgnt i do therefore, i trt sever”
”but dubledore can ake istakes,” argued harry ”he says it hiself and you” — he looked p straight the eye — ”do you honestly like snape?”
”i neither like nor dislike sever,” said p ”no, harry, i a speakg the truth,” he added, as harry pulled a skeptical expres-sion ”we shall never be bo friends, perhaps after all that hap-pened beeen jas and siri and sever, there is too uch bitterness there but i do not fet that durg the year i taught at hogwarts, sever ade the wolfsbane potion for every onth, ade it perfectly, that i did not have to suffer as i u-ally do at the full oon”
”but he 39aidentally39 let it slip that you39re a werewolf, you had to leave!” said harry angrily
p ed ”the news would have leaked out anyway we both know he wanted y job, but he uld have wreaked uch worse daa on by taperg with the potion he kept healthy i t be grateful”
”aybe he didn39t dare ss with the potion with dubledore watchg hi!” said harry
”you are detered to hate hi, harry,” said p with a fat sile ”and i understand with jas as your father, with sir-i as your godfather, you have herited an old prejudice by all ans tell dubledore what you have told arthur and , but do not expect hi to share your view of the atter do not even expect hi to be surprised by what you tell hi it ight have been on dubledore39s orders that sever estioned dra”
and now you39ve torn it ite apart i39ll thank you to give back y heart!
celesta ended her ng on a very long, high-pitched note and loud appe issued out of the wireless, which rs weasley joed with enthiastically
”eez eet over?” said fleur loudly ”thank goodness, what an 39orrible —”
”shall we have a nightcap, then?” asked r weasley loudly, leapg to his feet ”who wants eggnog?”
”what have you been up to tely?” harry asked p, as r, weasley btled off to fetch the eggnog, and everybody else stretched and
oke to nversation
”oh, i39ve been underground,” said p ”alost literally that39s why i haven39t been able to write, harry sendg letters to you would have been thg of a giveaway” -:
”what do you an?” 39
”i39ve been livg aong y fellows, y eals,” said p ”werewolves,” he added, at harrys look of prehension ”nearly all of the are on voldeort39s side dubledore wanted a spy and here i was ready-ade”
he unded a little bitter, and perhaps realized it, for he siled ore warly as he went on, ”i a not pg it is necessary work and who can do it better than i? however, it has been difficult gag their trt i bear the unistakable signs of havg tried to live aong wizards, you see, wher