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ed had been added for harry
ron fell asleep alost idiately, but harry delved to his trunk and pulled out his py of advanced potion-akg before ttg to bed there he turned its pas, searchg, until he fally found, at the front of the book, the date that it had been pub-lished it was nearly fifty years old neither his father, nor his father39s friends, had been at hogwarts fifty years ago feelg disappoted, harry threw the book back to his trunk, turned off the p, and rolled over, thkg of werewolves and snape, stan shunpike and the half-blood prce, and fally fallg to an uneasy sleep full of creepg shadows and the cries of bitten children
”she39s got to be jokg ”
harry woke with a start to fd a bulgg stockg lyg over the end of his bed he put on his gsses and looked around the ty dow was alost pletely obscured with snow and, front of it, ron was sittg bolt upright bed and exag what ap-peared to be a thick gold cha
”what39s chat?” asked harry 39
”its fro vender,” said ron, undg revolted ”she earn
honestly thk i39d wear ”
harry looked ore closely and let out a shout of ughter, dan
glg fro the cha r gold letters were the words:
“y sweetheart”
”nice,” he said ”cssy you should defitely wear it front ol fred and e”
”if you tell the,” said ron, shovg the neckce out of sight under his pillow, ”i — i — i’ll —”
”stutter at ?” said harry, grng ”e on, would i?”
”how uld she thk i39d like thg like that, though?” ron deanded of th air, lookg rather shocked
”well, thk back,” said harry ”have you ever let it slip that you39d like to go out public with the words 39y sweetheart39 round your neck?”
”well we don39t really talk uch,” said ron ”it39s aly ”
”g,” said harry
”well, yeah,” said ron he hesitated a ont, then said, ”is herione really gog out with en?”
”i dunno,” said harry ”they were at sghorn39s party tother, but i don39t thk it went that well”
ron looked slightly ore cheerful as he delved deeper to his stockg
harrys presents cded a sweater with a r golden snitch worked onto the front, hand-knitted by rs weasley, a r box of weasleys39 wizard wheezes products fro the s, and a slightly dap, oldy-sllg packa that ca with a bel read-g to aster, fro kreacher,
harry stared at it ”d39you reckon this is safe to open?” he asked ”can39t be anythg danro, all our ail39s still beg searched at the istry,” replied ron, though he was eyeg the parcel spicioly
”i didn39t thk of givg kreacher anythg do people ually give their hoe-elves christas presents?” asked harry, proddg the parcel cautioly
”herione would,” said ron ”but let39s wait and see what it is before you start feelg guilty”
a ont ter, harry had given a loud yell and leapt out of his cap bed the packa ntaed a r nuber of ots ”nice,” said ron, roarg with ughter ”very thoughtful” ”i39d rather have the than that neckce,” said harry, which bered ron up at once
everybody was wearg new sweaters when they all sat down for christas nch, everyone except fleur on who, it appeared, rs weasley had not wanted to waste one and rs weasley herself, who was sportg a
and-new idnight be witch39s hat glitterg with what looked like ty starlike diaonds, and a spec-tacur golden neckce
”fred and e gave the to ! aren39t they beautiful?” : ”well, we fd we appreciate you ore and ore, u, now we39re washg our own cks,” said e, wavg an airy hand ”parsnips, re?”
”harry, you39ve got a ot your hair,” said gny cheerfully, leang across the table to pick it out harry felt goose bups erupt up his neck that had nothg to do with the ot
”39ow 39orrible,” said fleur, with an affected little shudder
”yes, isn39t it?” said ron ”gravy, fleur?”
his earness to help her, he knocked the gravy boat flyg bill waved his wand and the gravy ared up the air and returned ekly to the boat
”you are as bad as zat tonks,” said fleur to ron, when she had fished kissg bill thanks ”she is always knockg —”
”i vited