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r, i hope, that i told you at the very outset of these etgs of ours that we would be enterg the reals of guesswork and specution?”
“yes, sir”
”th far, as i hope you agree, i have shown you reanably fir urces of fact for y deductions as to what voldeort did until the a of seventeen?”
harry nodded
”but now, harry,” said dubledore, ”now thgs bee urkier and stranr if it was difficult to fd evidence about the boy riddle, it has been alost ipossible to fd anyone prepared to reisce about the an voldeort fact, i doubt whether there is a ul alive, apart fro hiself, who uld give a full aount of his life sce he left hogwarts however, i have o st ories that i would like to share with you” dubledore dicated the o little crystal bottles gleag beside the pensieve ”i shall then be gd of your opion as to whether the ncsions i have drawn fro the see likely”
the idea that dubledore vaed his opion this highly ade harry feel even ore deeply ashad that he had failed the task of retrievg the horcrux ory, and he shifted guiltily his seat as dubledore raised the first of the o bottles to the light and exaed it
”i hope you are not tired of divg to other people39s ories, for they are curio rellections, these o,” he said ”this first one ca fro a very old hoe-elf by the na of hokey before we see what hokey witnessed, i t ickly reunt how lord voldeort left hogwarts
”he reached the seventh year of his schoolg with, as you ight have expected, grades every exaation he had taken all around hi, his cssates were decidg which jobs they were to pursue once they had left hogwarts nearly everybody expected spectacur thgs fro to riddle, prefect, head boy, ner of the award for special services to the school i know that several teachers, profesr sghorn aongst the, ested that he jo the istry of agic, offered to set up appotnts, put hi touch with eful ntacts he refed all offers the next thg the staff knew, voldeort was workg at b and burkes”
”at b and burkes?” harry repeated, stunned
”at b and burkes,” repeated dubledore cally ”i thk you will see what attractions the pce held for hi when we have entered hokey39s ory but this was not voldeort39s first choice of job hardly anyone knew of it at the ti — i was one of the few who the then headaster nfided — but voldeort first approached profesr dippet and asked whether he uld rea at hogwarts as a teacher”
”he wanted to stay here? why?” asked harry, ore aazed still
”i believe he had several reans, though he nfided none of the to profesr dippet,” said dubledore ”firstly, and very iportantly, voldeort was, i believe, ore attached to this school than he has ever been to a pern hogwarts was where he had been happiest the first and only pce he had felt at ho”
harry felt slightly unfortable at these words, for this was exactly how he felt about hogwarts too
”sendly, the castle is a stronghold of ancient agic undoubtedly voldeort had perated any ore of its secrets than ost of the students who pass through the pce, but he ay have felt that there were still ysteries to unravel, stores of agic to tap
”and thirdly, as a teacher, he would have had great power and fence over young witches and wizards perhaps he had gaed the idea fro profesr sghorn, the teacher with who he was on best ters, who had deonstrated how fential a role a teacher can py i do not iage for an stant that voldeort envisad spendg the rest of his life at hogwarts, but i do thk that he saw it as a eful recruitg ground, and a pce where he ight beg to build hiself an ary”
”but he didn39t t the job, sir?”
”no, he did not profesr dippet told hi that he was too young at eighteen, but vited hi to reapply a few years, if he still wished to teach”
”how did you feel about that, sir?” asked harry hesitantly ”deeply uneasy,” said dubledore ”i had advised arando agast the appotnt — i did not give the reans i have given you, for profesr dippet was very fond of voldeort and nvced of his honesty but i did not want lord voldeort back at this school, and especially not a position of power”
”which job did he want, sir? what subject did he want to teach?”
how, harry kne