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  outg a potless warng: he was sure that voldeort39s hand had itched toward his pocket and his wand but then the ont had passed, voldeort had turned away, the door was closg, and he was gone
  harry felt dubledore39s hand close over his ar aga and onts ter, they were standg tother on alost the sa spot, but there was no snow buildg on the dow led, and dubledore39s hand was bckened and dead-lookg once ore
  ”why?” said harry at once, lookg up to dubledore39s face ”why did he e back? did you ever fd out?”
  ”i have ideas,” said dubledore, ”but no ore than that”
  ”what ideas, sir?”
  ”i shall tell you, harry, when you have retrieved that ory fro profesr sghorn,” said dubledore
  ”when you have that st piece of the jigsaw, everythg will, i hope, be clear to both of ”
  harry was still burng with curiosity and even though dubledore had walked to the door and was holdg it open for hi, he did not ove at once
  ”was he after the defense agast the dark arts job aga, sir? he didn39t say ”
  ”oh, he defitely wanted the defense agast the dark arts job,” said dubledore ”the afterath of our little etg proved that you see, we have never been able to keep a defense agast the dark arts teacher for lonr than a year sce i refed the post to lord voldeort”
  chapter 21: the unknowable roo
  harry wracked his
  as over the next week as to how he was to persuade sghorn to hand over the true ory, but nothg the nature of a
  a wave ourred and he was reduced to dog what he did creasgly these days when at a loss: porg over his potions book, hopg that the prce would have scribbled thg eful a arg, as he had done any tis before
  ”you won39t fd anythg there,” said herione firly, te on sunday eveng
  ”don39t start, herione,” said harry ”if it hadn39t been for the prce, ron wouldn39t be sittg here now”
  ”he would if you39d jt listened to snape our first year,” said herione disissively
  harry ignored her he had jt found an cantation “sectu-sepra!” scrawled a arg above the trigug words ”for eneies,” and was itchg to try it out, but thought it best not to front of herione stead, he surreptitioly folded down the rner of the pa they were sittg beside the fire the on roo the only other people awake were fellow sixth years there had been a cer-ta aount of excitent earlier when they had e back fro dner to fd a new sign on the notice board that announced the date for their apparition test those who would be seventeen on or before the first test date, the enty-first of april, had the option of signg up for additional practice sessions, which would take pce heavily supervised hogsade
  ron had panicked on readg this notice he had still not an-ad to apparate and feared he would not be ready for the test herione, who had now achieved apparition ice, was a little ore nfident, but harry, who would not be seventeen for an-other four onths, uld not take the test whether ready or not
  ”at least you can apparate, though!” said ron tensely ”you39ll have no trouble e july!”
  ”i39ve only done it once,” harry reded hi he had fally anad to disappear and reaterialize side his hoop durg their previo lesn
  havg wasted a lot of ti worryg aloud about apparition, ron was now lg to fish a vicioly difficult essay for snape that harry and herione had already pleted harry fully expected to receive low arks on his, becae he had disagreed with snape on the best way to tackle dentors, but he did not care: sghorns ory was the ost iportant thg to hi now
  ”i39 tellg you, the stupid prce isn39t gog to be able to help you with this, harry!” said herione, ore loudly ”there39s only one way to force one to do what you want, and that39s the iperi curse, which is illegal —”
  ”yeah, i know that, thanks,” said harry, not lookg up fro the book ”that39s why i39 lookg for thg different dubledorf says veritaseru won39t do it, but there ight be thg else, a potion or a spell  ”
  ”you39re gog about it the wrong way,” said herione ”only you can t the ory, dubledore says that t an you can persuade sl