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nd i39ll be off carry on, everyone!”
harry walked across the yard toward the weasleys39 overgrown, snow-vered garden, scriour lipg slightly at his side he had, harry knew, been head of the auror office he looked tough and battle-scarred, very different fro portly fud his bowler hat
”charg,” said scriour, spg at the garden fence and lookg out over the snowy wn and the distguishable pnts ”charg”
harry said nothg he uld tell that scriour was watchg hi
”i39ve wanted to et you for a very long ti,” said scriour, after a few onts ”did you know that?”
”no,” said harry truthfully |!
”oh yes, for a very long ti but dubledore has been very protective of you,” said scriour ”natural, of urse, natural, after what you39ve been through especially what happened at : the istry ”:
he waited for harry to say thg, but harry did not obli, : he went on, ”i have been hopg for an oasion to talk to you ever sce i gaed office, but dubledore has — ost under-standably, as i say — prevented this”
still, harry said nothg, waitg
”the ruors that have flown around!” said scriour ”well, of urse, we both know how these stories t distorted all these whispers of a prophecy of you beg 39the chosen one39 ”
they were ttg near it now, harry thought, the rean scri-our was here
“i assu that dubledore has discsed these atters with you?”,
harry deliberated, wonderg whether he ought to lie or not he looked at the little gno prts all around the flowerbeds, ai the scuffed-up patch that arked the spot where fred had caught the gno now wearg the tutu at the of the christas tree fally, he decided on the truth or a bit of it
”yeah, we39ve discsed it”
”have you, have you ” said scriour harry uld see, out of the rner of his eye, scriour stg at hi, he pre-tended to be very terested a gno that had jt poked its head out fro underneath a frozen rhododendron ”and what has dubledore told you, harry?”
”rry, but that39s beeen ,” said harry he kept his voice as pleasant as he uld, and scriour39s tone, too, was light and friendly as he said, ”oh, of urse, if it39s a estion of nfidences, i wouldn39t want you to divul no, no and any case, does it really atter whether you are 39the chosen one39 or not?”
harry had to ull that one over for a few sends before re-spondg ”i don39t really know what you an, ister”
”well, of urse, to you it will atter enoroly,” said scri-our with a ugh ”but to the wizardg unity at r it39s all perception, isn39t it? it39s what people believe that39s iportant”
harry said nothg he thought he saw, dily, where they were headg, but he was not gog to help scriour t there the gno under the rhododendron was now g for wors at its roots, and harry kept his eyes fixed upon it
”people believe you are 39the chosen one,39 you see,” said scri-our ”they thk you ite the hero — which, of urse, you arc, harry, chosen or not! how any tis have you faced he-who-t-not-be-nad now? well, anyway,” he pressed on, without waitg for a reply, ”the pot is, you are a sybol of hope lor any, harry the idea that there is body out there who ight be able, who ight even be dested, to destroy he-who-t-not-be-nad — well, naturally, it gives people a lift and i can39t help but feel that, once you realize this, you ight nsider it, well, alost a duty, to stand alongside the istry, and give everyone a boost”
the gno had jt anad to t hold of a wor it was now g very hard on it, tryg to t it out of the frozen ground harry was silent long that scriour said, lookg fro harry to the gno, ”funny little chaps, aren39t they? but what say you, harry?”
”i don39t exactly understand what you want,” said harry slowly 39”stand alongside the istry39 what does that an?”
”oh, well, nothg at all onero, i assure you,” said scri-our ”if you were to be seen poppg and out of the istry fro ti to ti, for stance, that would give the right ipres-sion and of urse, while you were there, you would have aple : opportunity to speak to gawa robards, y esr as head of the auror office dolores u
id has told that you cherish an abition to bee an auror well, that uld be arrand very