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  bledore, undg rather tired
  harry obeyed, noticg as he took his ual seat front of dubledore39s desk that the pensieve y beeen the once ore, as did o ore ty crystal bottles full of swirlg ory
  ”profesr trewney still isn39t happy firenze is teachg, then?” harry asked
  ”no,” said dubledore, ”divation is turng out to be uch ore trouble than i uld have foreseen, never havg studied the subject yself i cannot ask firenze to return to the forest, where he is now an outcast, nor can i ask sybill trewney to leave beeen ourselves, she has no idea of the danr she would be outside the castle she does not know — and i thk it would be unwise to enlighten her — that she ade the prophecy about you and voldeort, you see”
  dubledore heaved a deep sigh, then said, ”but never d y staffg probles we have uch ore iportant atters to discs firstly — have you anad the task i set you at the end of our previo lesn?”
  ”ah,” said harry,
  ought up short what with apparition lesns and idditch and ron beg poined and ttg his skull cracked and his deteration to fd out what dra alfoy was up to, harry had alost fotten about the ory dubledore had asked hi to extract fro profesr sghorn ”well, i asked profesr sghorn about it at the end of potions, sir, but, er, he wouldn39t give it to ” there was a little silence
  ”i see,” said dubledore eventually, peerg at harry over the of his half-oon spectacles and givg harry the ual sensation that he was beg x-rayed ”and you feel that you have exerted your very best efforts this atter, do you? that you have exercised all of your nsiderable nuity? that you have left no depth of cunng unpbed your est to retrieve the ory?”
  ”well,” harry stalled, at a loss for what to say next his sgle attept to t hold of the ory suddenly seed ebarrassgly feeble ”well  the day ron swallowed love potion by istake i took hi to profesr sghorn i thought aybe if i got profesr sghorn a good enough ood —” ”and did that work?” asked dubledore ”well, no, sir, becae ron got poined —” ”— which, naturally, ade you fet all about tryg to retrieve the ory i would have expected nothg else, while your best friend was danr once it beca clear that r weasley was gog to ake a full revery, however, i would have hoped that you returned to the task i set you i thought i ade it clear to you how very iportant that ory is deed, i did y best to ipress upon you that it is the ost crucial ory of all and that we will be wastg our ti without it”
  a hot, prickly feelg of sha spread fro the of harry’s head all the way down his body dubledore had not raised his voice, he did not even und angry, but harry would have preferred hi to yell this ld disappotnt was worse than anythg
  ”sir,” he said, a little desperately, ”it isn39t that i wasn39t bothered or anythg, i39ve jt had other — other thgs  ”
  ”other thgs on your d,” dubledore fished the sentence for hi ”i see”
  silence fell beeen the aga, the ost unfortable silence harry had ever experienced with dubledore it seed to go on and on, punctuated only by the little gruntg snores of the portrait of arando dippet over dubledore39s head harry felt stranly diished, as though he had shrunk a little sce he had entered the roo when he uld stand it no lonr he said, ”profesr dubledore, i39 really rry i should have done ore i should have realized you wouldn39t have asked to do it if it wasn39t really iportant”
  ”thank you for sayg that, harry,” said dubledore ietly ”ay i hope, then, that you will give this atter higher priority fro now on? there will be little pot our etg after tonight unless we have that ory”
  ”i39ll do it, sir, i39ll t it fro hi,” he said earnestly
  ”then we shall say no ore about it jt now,” said dubledore ore kdly, ”but ntue with our story where we left off you reber where that was?”
  ”yes, sir,” said harry ickly ”voldeort killed his father and his grandparents and ade it look as though his uncle orf did it then he went back to hogwarts and he asked he asked profesr sghorn about horcruxes,” he ubled shafacedly
  ”very good,” said dubledore ”now, you will rebe