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of e, the other searchg through a box of crystalized peapple
harry looked around as dubledore appeared beside hi and saw that they were standg sghorn39s office haifa dozen boys were sittg around sghorn, all on harder or lower seats than his, and all their id-teens harry regnized voldeort at once his was the ost hand face and he looked the ost rexed of all the boys his right hand y neglintly upon the ar of his chair with a jolt, harry saw that he was wearg arvolo39s gold-and-bck rg he had already killed his father
”sir, is it true that profesr rrythought is retirg?” he asked
”to, to, if i knew i uldn39t tell you,” said sghorn, g a reprovg, sugar-vered fr at riddle, though rug the effect slightly by kg ”i t say, i39d like to know where you t your ration, boy, ore knowledable than half the staff, you are”
riddle siled the other boys ughed and cast hi adirg looks
”what with your uncanny ability to know thgs you shouldn’t, and your careful fttery of the people who atter — thank you f the peapple, by the way, you39re ite right, it is y favorite — ”
as several of the boys tittered, thg very odd happened the whole roo was suddenly filled with a thick white fog, that harry uld see nothg but the face of dubledore, who was standg beside hi then sghorn39s voice rang out through the ist, unnaturally loudly, ”you39ll go wrong, boy, ark y words ”
the fog cleared as suddenly as it had appeared and yet nobody ade any alsion to it, nor did anybody look as though anythg unual had jt happened bewildered, harry looked around as a sall golden clock standg upon sghorn39s desk chid eleven o39clock
”good gracio, is it that ti already?” said sghorn ”you39d better t gog, boys, or we39ll all be trouble lestran, i want your essay by toorrow or it39s detention sa goes for you, avery”
sghorn pulled hiself out of his archair and carried his epty gss over to his desk as the boys filed out voldeort, however, stayed behd harry uld tell he had dawdled deliberately, wantg to be st the roo with sghorn
”look sharp, to,” said sghorn, turng around and fdg hi still present ”you don39t want to be caught out of bed out of hours, and you a prefect”
”sir, i wanted to ask you thg”
”ask away, then, 39boy, ask away”
”sir, i wondered what you know about about horcruxes?”
and it happened all over aga: the dense fog filled the roo that harry uld not see sghorn or voldeort at all only dubledore, silg serenely beside hi then sghorn39s voice bood out aga, jt as it had done before
”i don39t know anythg about horcruxes and i wouldn39t tell you if i did! now t out of here at once and don’t let catch you ntiong the aga!”
”well, that39s that,” said dubledore pcidly beside harry
”ti to go”
and harry39s feet left the floor to fall, sends ter, back onto the
rug front of dubledore39s desk
”that39s all there is?” said harry bnkly
dubledore had said that this was the ost iportant ory of all, but he uld not see what was significant about it adittedly the fog, and the fact that nobody seed to have noticed it, was odd, but other than that nothg seed to have happened except that voldeort had asked a estion and failed to t an answer
”as you ight have noticed,” said dubledore, reseatg hiself behd his desk, ”that ory has been tapered with”
”tapered with?” repeated harry, sittg back down too
”certaly,” said dubledore ”profesr sghorn has ddled with his own rellections”
”but why would he do that?”
”becae, i thk, he is ashad of what he rebers,” said dubledore ”he has tried to rework the ory to show hiself a better light, obliteratg those parts which he does not wish to see it is, as you will have noticed, very crudely done, and that is all to the good, for it shows that the true ory is still there beneath the alterations
”and , for the first ti, i a givg you howork, harry it will be your job to persuade profesr sghorn to divul the real ory, which will undoubtedly be our ost crucial piece of ration of all”
harry stared at hi
”but surely, sir,” he said, keepg his voice as respectful as possible, ”you don39t need — you uld e legilincy or veritaseru