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  w the answer even before dubledore gave it
  ”defense agast the dark arts it was beg taught at the ti by an old profesr by the na of gatea rrythought, who had been at hogwarts for nearly fifty years
  ” voldeort went off to b and burkes, and all the staff who had adired hi said what a waste it was, a
  illiant young wizard like that, workg a shop however, voldeort was no re assistant polite and hand and clever, he was on given particur jobs of the type that only exist a pce like b and burkes, which specializes, as you know, harry, objects with unual and powerful properties voldeort was sent to persuade people to part with their treasures for sale by the partners, and he was, by all aounts, unually gifted at dog this”
  ”i39ll bet he was,” said harry, unable to nta hiself
  ”well, ite,” said dubledore, with a fat sile ”and now it is ti to hear fro hokey the hoe-elf, who worked for a very old, very rich witch by the na of hepzibah sith”
  dubledore tapped a bottle with his wand, the rk flew out, and he tipped the swirlg ory to the pensieve, sayg as he did , ”after you, harry”
  harry got to his feet and bent once ore over the ripplg silver ntents of the stone bas until his face touched the he tubled through dark nothgness and nded a sittg roo front of an insely fat old dy wearg an eborate gr wig and a
  illiant pk set of robes that flowed all around her, givg her the look of a ltg iced cake she was lookg to a sall jeweled irror and dabbg rou onto her already scarlet cheeks with a r powder puff, while the tiest and oldest hoe-elf harry had ever seen ced her fleshy feet to tight sat slippers
  ”hurry up, hokey!” said hepzibah iperioly ”he said he39d e at four, it39s only a uple of utes to and he39s never been te yet!”
  she tucked away her powder puff as the hoe-elf straightened up the of the elf39s head barely reached the seat of hepzibah39s chair, and her papery sk hung off her fra jt like the crisp len sheet she wore draped like a toga
  ”how do i look?” said hepzibah, turng her head to adire the vario angles of her face the irror
  ”lovely, ada,” seaked hokey
  harry uld only assu that it was down hokey’s ntract that she t lie through her teeth when asked this estion, becae hepzibah sith looked a long way fro lovely his opion
  a tklg doorbell rang and both istress and elf juped
  ”ick, ick, he39s here, hokey!” cried hepzibah and the elf scurried out of the roo, which was crad with objects that it was difficult to see how anybody uld navigate their way across it without knockg over at least a dozen thgs: there were cabets full of little cered boxes, cases full of gold-ebossed books, shelves of orbs and celestial globes, and any flourishg potted pnts
  ass ntaers fact, the roo looked like a cross beeen a agical antie shop and a nservatory
  the hoe-elf returned with utes, followed by a tall young an harry had no difficulty whatever regnizg as voldeort he was ply dressed a bck suit his hair was a little lonr than it had been at school and his cheeks were hollowed, but all of this suited hi he looked ore hand than ever he picked his way through the craped roo with an air that showed he had visited any tis before and bowed low over hepzibah39s fat little hand,
  hg it with his lips
  ”i
  ought you flowers,” he said ietly, producg a bunch of roses fro nowhere
  ”you naughty boy, you shouldn39t have!” sealed old hepzibah, though harry noticed that she had an epty vase standg ready on the nearest little table ”you do spoil this old dy, to sit down, sit down  where39s hokey? ah ”
  the hoe-elf had e dashg back to the roo carryg a tray of little cakes, which she set at her istress39s elbow
  ”help yourself, to,” said hepzibah, ”i know how you love y cakes now, how are you? you look pale they overwork you at that shop, i39ve said it a hundred tis ”
  voldeort siled chanically and hepzibah sipered |,!
  ”well, what39s your exce for visitg this ti?” she asked, bat-rg her shes
  ”r burke would like to ake an iproved offer for the gobl-ade aror,” said voldeort ”five hundred galleons, he feels it is a