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jx dawlish once i did it aga with the greatest regret”
” they still don39t know where you go?” asked harry, hopg for ore ration on this trigug subject, but dubledore rely siled over the of his half-oon spectacles
”no, they don39t, and the ti is not ite right for you to know either now, i est we press on, unless there39s anythg else — ?” ”there is, actually, sir,” said harry ”it39s about alfoy and snape”
”profesr snape, harry”
”yes, sir i overheard the durg profesr sghorns party well, i followed the, actually ”
dubledore listened to harry39s story with an ipassive face when harry had fished he did not speak for a few onts, then said, ”thank you for tellg this, harry, but i est that you put it out of your d i do not thk that it is of great iportance”
”not of great iportance?” repeated harry creduloly ”profesr, did you understand — ?”
”yes, harry, blessed as i a with extraordary
apower, i understood everythg you told ,” said dubledore, a little sharply ”i thk you ight even nsider the possibility that i understood ore than you did aga, i a gd that you have n-lided , but let reassure you that you have not told anythg that caes disiet”
harry sat seethg silence, grg at dubledore what was gog on? did this an that dubledore had deed ordered snape to fd out what alfoy was dog, which case he had already heard everythg harry had jt told hi fro snape? or was he really worried by what he had heard, but pretendg not to be?
”, sir,” said harry, what he hoped was a polite, cal voice, ”you defitely still trt — ?”
”i have been tolerant enough to answer that estion already,” said dubledore, but he did not und very tolerant anyore ”y answer has not chand”
”i should thk not,” said a snide voice pheas nils was evidently only pretendg to be asleep dubledore ignored hi
”and now, harry, i t sist that we press on i have ore iportant thgs to discs with you this eveng”
harry sat there feelg uto how would it be if he refed to perit the chan of subject, if he sisted upon argug the case agast alfoy? as though he had read harry39s d, dubledore shook his head
”ah, harry, how often this happens, even beeen the best of friends! each of believes that what he has to say is uch ore iportant than anythg the other ight have to ntribute!”
”i don39t thk what you39ve got to say is uniportant, sir,” said harry stiffly
”well, you are ite right, becae it is not,” said dubledore
iskly ”i have o ore ories to show you this eveng, both obtaed with enoro difficulty, and the send of the is, 1 thk, the ost iportant i have llected”
harry did not say anythg to this he still felt angry at the reception his nfidences had received, but uld not see what was to be gaed by argug further
”,” said dubledore, a rgg voice, ”we et this eveng to ntue the tale of to riddle, who we left st lesn poised on the threshold of his years at hogwarts you will reber how excited he was to hear that he was a wizard, that he refed y pany on a trip to diagon alley, and that i, turn, warned hi agast ntued thievery when he arrived at school
”well, the start of the school year arrived and with it ca to riddle, a iet boy his sendhand robes, who led up with the other first years to be rted he was pced slyther hoe alost the ont that the rtg hat touched his head,” ntued dubledore, wavg his bckened hand toward the shelf over his head where the rtg hat sat, ancient and unovg ”how on riddle learned that the fao founder of the hoe uld talk to snakes, i do not know — perhaps that very eveng the knowled can only have excited hi and creased his sense of self-iportance
”however, if he was frighteng or ipressg fellow slythers with dispys of parseltongue their on roo, no ht of it reached the staff he showed no sign of ouard arrogance or aggression at all as an unually talented and very good-lookg orphan, he naturally drew attention and sypathy fro the staff alost fro the ont of his arrival he seed police, iet, and thirsty for knowled nearly all were ost favorably ipressed by hi”
”didn39t you tell the, sir, what he39d been like when you t hi at the orphana?” asked harry
”no, i did not t