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  they39re told even if he won39t tell the what he39s up to, but he doesn39t want the to be seen rkg around outside the roo of reirent, he39s got the takg polyjuice to ake the look like other people… those o girls i saw hi with when he issed idditch — ha! crabbe and goyle!”
  “do you an to say,” said herione a hhed voice, ”that that little girl whose scales i repaired — ?”
  ”yeah, of urse!” said harry loudly, starg at her ”of urse! alfoy t39ve been side the roo at the ti, she — what a i talkg about? — he dropped the scales to tell alfoy not to rne out, becae there was one there! and there was that girl who dropped the toadspawn too! we39ve been walkg past hi all the ti and not realizg it!”
  ”he39s got crabbe and goyle transforg to girls?” guffawed ron ”bliy… no wonder they don39t look too happy these days i39 surprised they don39t tell hi to stuff it”
  ”well, they wouldn39t, would they, if he39s shown the his dark ark?” said harry
  ”h the dark ark we don39t know exists,” said heri-one skeptically, rollg up ron39s dried essay before it uld e to any ore har and handg it to hi
  ”we39ll see” said harry nfidently
  ”yes, we will,” herione said, ttg to her feet and stretchg ”but, harry, before you t all excited, i still don39t thk you39ll be able to t to the roo of reirent without knog what39s there first39 and i don39t thk you should fet” — she heaved her bag onto her shoulder and gave hi a very serio look — ”that what you39re supposed to be ncentratg on is ttg that ory fro sghorn good night”
  harry watched her go, feelg slightly disgruntled once the door to the girls39 doritories had closed behd her he rounded on ron ”what d39you thk?”
  ”wish i uld disapparate like a hoe-elf,” said ron, starg at the spot where dobby had vanished ”i39d have that apparition test the bag”
  harry did not sleep well that night he y awake for what felt like hours, wonderg how alfoy was g the roo of reirent and what he, harry, would see when he went there the follog day, for whatever herione said, harry was sure that if alfoy had-=- been able to see the headarters of the da, he would be able to see alfoy39s, what uld it be? a etg pce? a hideout? a ston roo? a workshop? harrys d worked feverishly and his dreas, when he fally fell asleep, were
  oken and disturbed by ias of alfoy, who turned to sghorn, who turned to snape…
  harry was a state of great anticipation over
  eakfast the follog orng he had a free period before defense agast the dark arts and was detered to spend it tryg to t to the roo of reirent herione was rather ostentatioly shog no terest his whispered pns for forcg entry to the roo, which irritated harry, becae he thought she ight be a lot of help if she wanted to
  ”look,” he said ietly, leang forward and puttg a hand on the daily prophet, which she had jt reoved fro a post owl, to s her fro openg it and vanishg behd it ”i haven39t for-gotten about sghorn, but i haven39t got a ce how to t that ory off hi, and until i t a
  a wave why shouldn39t i fd out what alfoy39s dog?”
  ”i39ve already told you, you need to persuade sghorn,” said her-ione ”it39s not a estion of trickg hi or bewitchg hi, or dubledore uld have done it a send stead of ssg around outside the roo of reirent” — she jerked the prophet out fro under harrys hand and unfolded it to look at the front pa — ”you should go and fd sghorn and start appeal-g to his better nature”
  ”anyone we know — ?” asked ron, as herione scanned the headles
  ”yes!” said herione, cag both harry and ron to gag on their
  eakfast ”but it39s all right, he39s not dead — its undung, he39s been arrested and sent to azkaban! thg to do with ipernatg an feri durg an attepted burgry, and one called octavi pepper has vanished oh, and how horrible, a ne-year-old boy has been arrested for tryg to kill his grandparents, they thk he was under the iperi curse”
  they fished their
  eakfast silence herione set off i-diately for ancient runes ron for the on roo, where he still had to fish his ncsion on snape39s dentor