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  the rner, hunchbacked, his jowls aiver
  ”oho!” he wheezed ”out of bed te, this39ll an detention!”
  ”no it won39, filch,” said hagrid shortly ”they39re with , aren’ they?”
  ”and what difference does that ake?” asked filch obnoxioly
  ”i39 a ruddy teacher, aren39 i, yeh sneak39 sib!” said hagrid, firg up at once
  there was a nasty hissg noise as filch swelled with fury rs norris had arrived, unseen, and was istg herself suoly around filch39s skny ankles
  ”t go,” said hagrid out of the rner of his outh
  harry did not need tellg ice he and herione both hurried off hagrid39s and filch39s raised voices echoed behd the as they ran they passed peeves near the turng to gryffdor tower, but he was streakg happily toward the urce of the yellg, cacklg and callg,
  when there39s strife and when there39s trouble
  call on peevsie, he39ll ake double!
  the fat dy was snoozg and not pleased to be woken, but swung forward grupily to allow the to cber to the rcifully peaceful and epty on roo it did not see that people knew about ron yet harry was very relieved: he had been terrogated enough that day herione bade hi good night and set off for the girls39 doritory harry, however, reaed behd, takg a seat beside the fire and lookg down to the dyg ebers
  dubledore had argued with snape spite of all he had told harry, spite of his sistence that he trted snape pletely, he had lost his teper with hi  he did not thk that snape had tried hard enough to vestigate the slythers or, perhaps, to vestigate a sgle slyther: alfoy?
  was it becae dubledore did not want harry to do anythg foolish, to take atters to his own hands, that he had pretended there was nothg harry39s spicions? that seed likely it , ight even be that dubledore did not want anythg to distract harry fro their lesns, or fro procurg that ory fro sghorn perhaps dubledore did not thk it right to nfide spicions about his staff to sixteen-year-olds
  ”there you are, potter!”
  harry juped to his feet shock, his wand at the ready he had been ite nvced that the on roo was epty he had not been at all prepared for a hulkg figure to rise suddenly out of a distant chair a closer look showed hi that it was rac en
  ”i39ve been waitg for you to e back,” said en, disregardg harry’s drawn wand ”t’ve fallen asleep look, i saw the takg weasley up to the hospital g earlier didn39t look like he39ll be fit for next week39s atch”
  it took harry a few onts to realize what en was talkg about
  ”oh  right  idditch,” he said, puttg his wand back to the belt of his jeans and runng a hand wearily through his hair ”yeah he ight not ake it”
  ”well, then, i39ll be pyg keeper, won39t i?” said en
  ”yeah,” said harry ”yeah, i suppose ”
  he uld not thk of an argunt agast it after all, en had certaly perford send-best the trials
  ”excellent,” said en a satisfied voice ” when39s practice?”
  ”what? oh  there39s one toorrow eveng”
  ”good listen, potter, we should have a talk beforehand i39ve got ideas on strategy you ight fd eful”
  ”right,” said harry unenthiastically ”well, i39ll hear the toorrow, then i39 pretty tired now see you  ”
  the news that ron had been poined spread ickly next day, but it did not cae the sensation that katie39s attack had done people seed to thk that it ight have been an aident, given that he had been the potions aster39s roo at the ti, and that as he had been given an antidote idiately there was no real har done fact, the gryffdors were nerally uch ore terested the upg idditch atch agast hufflepuff, for any of the wanted to see zacharias sith, who pyed chaser on the hufflepuff tea, punished undly for his ntary durg the openg atch agast slyther
  harry, however, had never been less terested idditch he was rapidly beg obsessed with dra alfoy still checkg the arauder39s ap whenever he got a chance, he tis ade detours to wherever alfoy happened to be, but had not yet detected hi dog anythg out of the ordary and still there were those explicable tis when alfoy siply vanished fro the ap
  but harry did not t a lot of ti to nsider the