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  harry felt anr bubblg the pit of his stoach: dolores u
  id was still at the istry, was she?
  ” basically,” he said, as though he jt wanted to crify a few pots, ”you39d like to give the ipression that i39 workg for the istry?”
  ”it would give everyone a lift to thk you were ore volved, harry,” said scriour, undg relieved that harry had t-toned on ickly ”39the chosen one,39 you know  it39s all about givg people hope, the feelg that excitg thgs are hap-peng ”
  ”but if i keep runng and out of the istry,” said harry, still endeavorg to keep his voice friendly, ”won39t that see as though i approve of what the istry39s up to?”
  ”well,” said scriour, frowng slightly, ”well, yes, that39s partly why we39d like —”
  ”no, i don39t thk that39ll work,” said harry pleasantly ”you see, i don39t like of the thgs the istry39s dog lockg up stan shunpike, for stance”
  scriour did not speak for a ont but his expression hard-ened stantly ”i would not expect you to understand,” he said, and he was not as essful at keepg anr out of his voice as harry had been ”these are danro tis, and certa asures need to be taken you are sixteen years old —”
  ”dubledore39s a lot older than sixteen, and he doesn39t thk stan should be azkaban either,” said harry ”you39re akg stan a scapegoat, jt like you want to ake a ast”
  they looked at each other, long and hard fally scriour said, with no pretense at warth, ”i see you prefer — like your hero, dubledore — to disasciate yourself fro the istry?” ”i don39t want to be ed,” said harry
  ” would say it39s your duty to be ed by the istry!” ”yeah, and others ight say its your duty to check that people really are death eaters before you chuck the prin,” said harry, his teper risg now ”you39re dog what barty crouch
  did you never t it right, you people, do you? either we39ve got fud, pretendg everythg39s lovely while people t urdered right under his nose, or we39ve got you, chuckg the wrong people to jail and tryg to pretend you39ve got 39the chosen one39 work-g for you!” 39 i
  ” you39re not 39the chosen one39?” said scriour 39
  ”i thought you said it didn39t atter either way?” said harry, with a bitter ugh ”not to you anyway”
  ”i shouldn39t have said that,” said scriour ickly ”it was tactless —”
  ”no, it was honest,” said harry ”one of the only honest thgs you39ve said to you don39t care whether i live or die, but you do care that i help you nvce everyone you39re ng the war agast voldeort i haven39t fotten, ister”
  he raised his right fist there, shg white on the back of his ld hand, were the scars which dolores u
  id had forced hi to carve to his own flesh: i t not tell lies
  ”i don39t reber you rhg to y defense when i was tryg to tell everyone voldeort was back the istry wasn39t keen to be pals st year”
  they stood silence as icy as the ground beneath their feet the gno had fally anad to extricate his wor and was now suckg on it happily, leang agast the bottoost
  anches of the rhododendron bh
  ”what is dubledore up to?” said scriour
  ely ”where does he go when he is absent fro hogwarts?”
  ”no idea,” said harry
  ”and you wouldn39t tell if you knew,” said scriour, ”would you?”
  ”no, 1 wouldn39t,” said harry
  ”well, then, i shall have to see whether i can39t fd out by other ans”
  ”you can try,” said harry differently ”but you see cleverer than fud, i39d have thought you39d have learned fro his is-takes he tried terferg at hogwarts you ight have noticed he39s not ister anyore, but dubledore’s still headaster i39d leave dubledore alone, if i were you”
  there was a long pae
  ”well, it is clear to that he has done a very good job on you,” said scriour, his eyes ld and hard behd his wire-rid gsses, ”dubledore’s an through and through, aren39t you, potter?”
  ”yeah, i a,” said harry ”gd we straightened that out”
  and turng his back on the ister of agic, he strode back toward the hoe
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