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  t gog to let go of it, but then it had slid through his frs and was back its red velvet chion
  “ there you are, to, clear, and i hope you enjoyed that!”
  she looked hi full the face and for the first ti, harry saw her foolish sile falter
  ”are you all right, dear?”
  ”oh yes,” said voldeort ietly ”yes, i39 very well ”
  “i thought — but a trick of the light, i suppose —” said hepzibah, lookg unnerved, and harry guessed that she too had seen the ontary red glea voldeort39s eyes ”here, hokey, take these away and lock the up aga the ual enchantnts”
  ”ti to leave, harry,” said dubledore ietly, and as the tie elf bobbed away bearg the boxes, dubledore grasped harry once aga above the elbow and tother they rose up through oblivion and back to dubledore39s office
  ”hepzibah sith died o days after that little scene,” said dubledore, resug his seat and dicatg that harry should do the sa ”hokey the hoe-elf was nvicted by the istry of poing her istress39s eveng a by aident”
  ”no way!” said harry angrily
  ”i see we are of one d,” said dubledore ”certaly, then are any siirities beeen this death and that of the riddles both cases, body else took the b, one who had a clear ory of havg caed the death —” ”hokey nfessed?”
  ”she rebered puttg thg her istress39s a that turned out not to be sugar, but a lethal and little-known poin, said dubledore ”it was ncded that she had not ant to do it, but beg old and nfed —”
  ”voldeort odified her ory, jt like he did with orf!” ”yes, that is y ncsion too,” said dubledore ”and, jt as with orf, the istry was predisposed to spect hokey —”
  ”— becae she was a hoe-elf,” said harry he had rarely felt ore sypathy with the ciety herione had set up, spew ”precisely,” said dubledore ”she was old, she aditted to havg tapered with the drk, and nobody at the istry bothered to ire further as the case of orf, by the ti i traced her and anad to extract this ory, her life was alost over — but her ory, of urse, proves nothg except that voldeort knew of the existence of the cup and the locket
  ”by the ti hokey was nvicted, hepzibah39s faily had realized that o of her greatest treasures were issg it took the a while to be sure of this, for she had any hidg pces, havg always guarded her llection ost jealoly but before they were sure beyond doubt that the cup and the locket were both gone, the assistant who had worked at b and burkes, the young an who had visited hepzibah regurly and chard her well, had resigned his post and vanished his superiors had no idea where he had gone they were as surprised as anyone at his disappearance and that was the st that was seen or heard of to riddle for a very long ti
  ”now,” said dubledore, ”if you don39t d, harry, i want to pae once ore to draw your attention to certa pots of our story voldeort had itted another urder whether it was his first sce he killed the riddles, i do not know, but i thk it was this ti, as you will have seen, he killed not for reven, but for ga he wanted the o fabulo trophies that poor, betted, old woan showed hi jt as he had once robbed the other children at his orphana, jt as he had stolen his uncle orf’s rg, he ran off now with hepzibahs cup and locket”
  ”but,” said harry, frowng, ”it sees ad  riskg everythg, throg away his job, jt for those  ”
  ”ad to you, perhaps, but not to voldeort,” said dubledore ”i hope you will understand due urse exactly what those objects ant to hi, harry, but you t adit that it is not difficult to iage that he saw the locket, at least, as rightfully his” ”the locket aybe,” said harry, ”but why take the cup as well?”
  ”it had belond to another of hogwarts’s founders,” said dubledore ”i thk he still felt a great pull toward the school and that he uld not resist an object steeped hogwarts history there were other reans, i thk i hope to be able to deonstrate the to you due urse
  ”and now for the very st rellection i have to show you, at least until you ana to retrieve profesr sghorn39s ory for