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  reate an antidote for the poin with it before the end of the lesn good ck, and don39t fet your protective gloves!39
  herione had left her stool and was halfway towards siughorn39s desk before the rest of the css had realised it was ti to ove, and by the ti harry, ron and ernie returned to the table, she had already tipped the ntents of her phial to her cauldron and was kdlg a fire underneath it
  39it39s a sha that the prce won39t be able to help you uch with this, harry,39 she said
  ightly as she straightened up 39you have to understand the prciples volved this ti no short cuts or cheats!39
  annoyed, harry unrked the poin he had taken fro siughorn39s desk, which was a garish shade of pk, tipped it to his cauldron and lit a fire underneath it he did not have the fatest idea what he was supposed to do next he gnced at ron, who was now standg there lookg rather gorless, havg pied everythg harry had done
  39you sure the prce hasn39t got any tips?39 ron uttered to harry
  harry pulled out his trty py of advanced potion-akg and turned to the chapter on antidotes there was golpalott39s third w, stated word for word as herione had recited it, but not a sgle ilatg note the prce39s hand to exp what it ant apparently the prce, like herione, had had no difficulty understandg it
  39nothg,39 said harry glooily
  herione was now wavg her wand enthiastically over her cauldron unfortunately, they uld not py the spell she was dog becae she was now good at non-verbal can-tations that she did not need to say the words aloud ernie ailn, however, was utterg, 39specialis revelio!39 over his cauldron, which unded ipressive, harry and ron hastened to iitate hi
  it took harry only five utes to realise that his reputa-tion as the best potion-aker the css was crashg around his ears sghorn had peered hopefully to his cauldron on his first circuit of the dunon, preparg to exci delight as he ually did, and stead had with-drawn his head hastily, ughg, as the sll of bad eggs overwheld hi herione39s expression uld not have been any er she had loathed beg out-perford every potions css she was now decantg the ysterioly separated gredients of her poin to ten different crystal phials ore to avoid watchg this irritatg sight than any-thg else, harry bent over the half-blood prce39s book and turned a few pas with unnecessary force
  and there it was, scrawled right across a long list of antidotes
  jt shove a bezoar down their throats
  harry stared at these words for a ont hadn39t he once, long ago, heard of bezoars? hadn39t snape ntioned the their first ever potions lesn? 39a stone taken fro the stoach of a goat, which will protect fro ost poins39
  it was not an answer to the golpalott proble, and had snape still been their teacher, harry would not have dared do it, but this was a ont for desperate asures he hastened towards the store cupboard and ruad with it, phg aside unirn horns and tangles of dried herbs until he found, at the very back, a sall card box on which had been scribbled the word 39bezoars39
  he opened the box jt as sghorn called, o utes left, everyone!39 side were half a dozen shrivelled
  own objects, lookg ore like dried-up kidneys than real stones harry seized one, put the box back the cupboard and hurried back to his cauldron
  39ti39s up!39 called sghorn nially 39well, let39s see how you39ve done! bise what have you got for ?39
  slowly, sghorn oved around the roo, exag the vario antidotes nobody had fished the task, although herione was tryg to cra a few ore gredients to her bottle before sghorn reached her ron had given up -pletely, and was rely tryg to avoid
  eathg the putrid fus issug fro his cauldron harry stood there waitg, the bezoar ctched a slightly sweaty hand
  sghorn reached their table st he sniffed ernie39s potion and passed on to ron39s with a griace he did not lr over ron39s cauldron, but backed away swiftly, retchg slightly
  39and you, harry,39 he said 39what have you got to show ?39
  harry held out his hand, the bezoar sittg on his pal
  sghorn looked down at it for a full ten sends harry wondered, for a ont, whether he was gog to shout at hi then he threw back his head and roared with ughter
  39you39ve got a nerve, boy!39 he bood, takg the bezoar and holdg it up that the css uld see it 39oh, you39re like your other well, 1 can39t fault you a bezoar would