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  eas they have shunned noral ciety and live on the args, stealg — and tis killg — to eat”
  ”how e they like voldeort?”
  ”they thk that, under his rule, they will have a better life,” said p ”and it is hard to argue with greyback out there  ”
  ”who39s greyback?”
  ”you haven39t heard of hi?” p39s hands closed nvulsively his p ”fenrir greyback is, perhaps, the ost sava werewolf alive today he regards it as his ission life to bite and to nta-ate as any people as possible he wants to create enough were-wolves to overe the wizards voldeort has proised hi prey return for his services greyback specializes children  bite the young, he says, and raise the away fro their parents, raise the to hate noral wizards voldeort has threatened to unleash hi upon people39s ns and daughters it is a threat that ually produces good results”
  p paed and then said, ”it was greyback who bit ” ”what?” said harry, astonished ”when — when you were a kid, you an?”
  ”yes y father had offended hi i did not know, for a very long ti, the identity of the werewolf who had attacked i even felt pity for hi, thkg that he had had no ntrol, know-g by then how it felt to transfor but greyback is not like that at the full oon, he positions hiself close to victis, ensurg that he is near enough to strike he pns it all and this is the an voldeort is g to arshal the werewolves i cannot pretend that y particur
  and of reaned argunt is akg uch headway agast greyback39s sistence that we werewolves deserve blood, that we ought to reven ourselves on noral people” ”but you are noral!” said harry fiercely ”you39ve jt got a — a
  proble —”
  p burst out ughg ”tis you red a lot of jas he called it y 39furry little proble pany any people were under the ipression that i owned a badly behaved
  rabbit”
  he aepted a gss of eggnog fro r weasley with a word of thanks, lookg slightly ore cheerful, harry, anwhile, felt a rh of excitent: this st ntion of his father had reded hi that there was thg he had been lookg forward to ask-g p
  ”have you ever heard of one called the half-blood prce?”
  ”the half-blood what?”
  ”prce,” said harry, watchg hi closely for signs of regni-tion
  ”there are no wizardg prces,” said p, now silg ”is this a title you re thkg of adoptg? i should have thought be-g 39the chosen one39 would be enough”
  ”it39s nothg to do with !” said harry dignantly ”the half-blood prce is one who ed to go to hogwarts, i39ve got his old potions book he wrote spells all over it, spells he vented one of the was levirp —”
  ”oh, that one had a great vogue durg y ti at hogwarts,” said p reiscently ”there were a few onths y fifth year when you uldn39t ove for beg hoisted to the air by your ankle”
  ”y dad ed it,” said harry ”i saw hi the pensieve, he ed it on snape”
  he tried to und casual, as though this was a throwaway -nt of no real iportance, but he was not sure he had achieved the right effect ps sile was a little too understandg
  ”yes,” he said, ”but he wasn39t the only one as i say, it was very popur  you know how these spells e and go , ”
  ”but it unds like it was vented while you were at school,” harry persisted
  ”not necessarily,” said p ”jxes go and out of fashion like everythg else”
  he looked to harry39s face and then said ietly, ”jas was a pureblood, harry, and i proise you, he never asked to call hi 39prce39”
  abandong pretense, harry said, ”and it wasn39t siri? or you?”
  ”defitely not”
  ”oh” harry stared to the fire ”i jt thought — well, he39s helped out a lot potions csses, the prce has”
  ”how old is this book, harry?”
  ”i dunno, i39ve never checked”
  ”well, perhaps that will give you ce as to when the prce was at hogwarts,” said p
  shortly after this, fleur decided to iitate celesta sgg ”a cauldron full of hot, strong love,” which was taken by everyone, once they had glipsed rs weasley39s expression, to be the cue to go to bed harry and ron clibed all the way up to ron39s attic bedroo, where a cap b