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apter 17: a ish ory
te the afternoon, a few days after new year, harry, ron, and gny led up beside the kitchen fire to return to hogwarts the istry had arrand this one-off nnection to the floo work to return students ickly and safely to the school only rs weasley was there to say good-bye, as r weasley, fred, e, bill, and fleur were all at work rs weasley dislved to tears at the ont of partg adittedly, it took very little to set her off tely she had been cryg on and off ever sce percy had stord fro the hoe on christas day with his gsses spttered with ashed parsnip for which fred, e, and gny all cid credit
”don39t cry, u,” said gny, pattg her on the back as rs weasley bbed to her shoulder ”it39s okay ”
”yeah, don39t worry about ,” said ron, perittg his other to pnt a very wet kiss on his cheek, ”or about percy he39s such a prat, it39s not really a loss, is it?”
rs weasley bbed harder than ever as she enfolded harry her ars
”proise you39ll look after yourself stay out of trouble ”
”i always do, rs weasley,” said harry ”i like a iet life, you know ”
she gave a watery chuckle and stood back ”be good, then, all of you ”
harry stepped to the erald fire and shouted ”hogwarts!” he had one st fleetg view of the weasleys39 kitchen and rs weasley39s tearful face before the fs engulfed hi spng very fast, he caught
red glipses of other wizardg roos, which were whipped out of sight before he uld t a proper look then he was slog down, fally spg sarely the firepce profesr cgonagall39s office she barely gnced up fro her work as he cbered out over the grate
”eveng, potter try not to t too uch ash on the carpet”
”no, profesr”
harry straightened his gsses and fttened his hair as ron ca spng to view when gny had arrived, all three of the trooped out of cgonagall39s office and off toward gryffdor tower harry gnced out of the rridor dows as they passed the sun was already skg over grounds carpeted deeper snow than had over the burrow garden the distance, he uld see hagrid feedg buckbeak front of his cab
”baubles,” said ron nfidently, when they reached the fat dy, who was lookg rather paler than ual and ced at his loud voice
”no,” she said
“what d’you an, ‘no’ ?
”there is a new password,” she said ”and please don39t shout”
”but we39ve been away, how39re we supposed to — ?”
”harry! gny!”
herione was hurryg toward the, very pk-faced and wearg a cloak, hat, and gloves
”i got back a uple of hours ago, i39ve jt been down to visit hagrid and buck — i an withergs,” she said
eathlessly ”did you have a good christas?”
”yeah,” said ron at once, ”pretty eventful, ruf scri —” ] ”i39ve got thg for you, harry,” said herione, neither lookg at ron nor givg any sign that she had heard hi ”oh, hang on — password abstence”
”precisely,” said the fat dy a feeble voice, and swung forward to reveal the portrait hole
”what39s up with her?” asked harry
”overduld over christas, apparently,” said herione, rollg her eyes as she led the way to the packed on roo ”she and her friend violet drank their way through all the e that picture of drunk onks down by the chars rridor anyway”
she ruad her pocket for a ont, then pulled out a scroll of parchnt with dubledore39s writg on it
”great,” said harry, unrollg it at once to disver that his next lesn with dubledore was scheduled for the follog night ”i’ve got loads to tell hi — and you let39s sit down —”
but at that ont there was a loud seal of ”won-won!” and vender
own ca hurtlg out of nowhere and fng herself to ron39s ars several onlookers ered herione gave a tklg ugh and said, ”there39s a cable over here g gny?”
”no, thanks, i said i39d et dean,” said gny, though harry uld not help noticg that she did not und very enthiastic leavg ron and vender locked a kd of vertical wrestlg, atch, harry led herione over to the spare table
” how was your christas?”
”oh, fe,” she ed ”nothg special how was it at won-won39s?”
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