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certaly act as an antidote to all these potions!39
herione, who was sweaty-faced and had ot on her nose, looked livid her half-fished antidote, prisg fifty-o gredients cdg a chunk of her own hair,
bubbled ishly behd sghorn, who had eyes for nobody but harry
39and you thought of a bezoar all by yourself, did you, harry?39 she asked through gritted teeth
that39s the dividual spirit a real potion-aker needs!39 said sghorn happily, before harry uld reply 39jt like his other, she had the sa tuitive grasp of potion-akg, it39s undoubtedly fro lily he ts it yes, harry, yes, if you39ve got a bezoar to hand, of urse that would do the trick although as they don39t work on everythg, and are pretty rare, it39s still worth knog how to ix antidotes 39
the only pern the roo lookg angrier than herione was alfoy, who, harry was pleased to see, had spilled -thg that looked like cat sick over hiself before either of the uld express their fury that harry had e of the css by not dog any work, however, the bell rang
ti to pack up!39 said sghorn 39and an extra ten pots to gryffdor for sheer cheek!39
still chucklg, he waddled back to his desk at the front of the dunon
harry dawdled behd, takg an ordate aount of ti to do up his bag neither ron nor herione wished hi ck as they left both looked rather annoyed at st harry and sghorn were the only o left the roo
39e on, now, harry, you39ll be te for your next lesn,39 said sghorn affably, snappg the gold csps shut on his dragonsk
iefcase
39sir,39 said harry, redg hiself irresistibly of voldeort, 391 wanted to ask you thg39
39ask away, then, y dear boy, ask away ”
39sir, 1 wondered what you know about about horcruxes?39
sghorn froze his round face seed to sk upon itself he licked his lips and said hoarsely, 39what did you say?39 39i asked whether you know anythg about horcruxes, sir you see -39
39dubledore put you up to this,39 whispered sghorn
his voice had chand pletely it was not nial any ore, but shocked, terrified he fubled his
east pocket and pulled out a handkerchief, oppg his sweatg
ow
39dubledore39s shown you that - that ory,39 said sghorn 39well? hasn39t he?39
39yes,39 said harry, decidg on the spot that it was best not to lie
39yes, of urse,39 said sghorn ietly, still dabbg at his white face 39of urse well, if you39ve seen that ory, harry, you39ll know that i don39t know anythg - anythg -he repeated the word forcefully 39- about horcruxes39
he seized his dragonsk
iefcase, stuffed his handkerchief back to his pocket and arched to the dunon door
39sir,39 said harry desperately, 39i jt thought there ight be a bit ore to the ory -39
39did you?39 said sghorn then you were wrong, weren39t you? wrong!39
he bellowed the st word and, before harry uld say another word, sd the dunon door behd hi
neither ron nor herione was at all sypathetic when harry told the of this disastro terview herione was still seethg at the way harry had triuphed without dog the work properly ron was resentful that harry hadn39t slipped hi a bezoar, too
39it would39ve jt looked stupid if we39d both done it!39 said harry irritably 39look, i had to try and ften hi up i uld ask hi about voldeort, didn39t i? oh, will you l a grip!39 he added exasperation, as ron ced at the und of the na
furiated by his faire and by ron and herione39s atti-
tudes, harry
ooded for the next few days over what to do next about sghorn he decided that, for the ti beg, he would let sghorn thk that he had fotten all about horcruxes it was surely best to ll hi to a false sense of security before returng to the attack
when harry did noi estion sghorn aga, the potions aster reverted to his ual affectionate treatnt of hi, and appeared to have put the atter fro his d harry awaited an vitation to one of his little eveng parties, detered to aept this ti, even if he had to reschedule idditch prac- tice unfortunately, however, no such vitation arrived harry checked with herione and gny: neither of the had received an vitation and nor, as far as they knew, had anybody else harry uld not help wonderg whether this ant that sghorn was not ite as fetful as he appeared, siply detered to give harry no additional opportunities to estion hi
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