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  essay, and harry for the rridor on the seventh floor and the stretch of wall opposite the tapestry of barnabas the bary teachg trolls to do ballet
  harry slipped on his visibility cloak once he had found an epty passa, but he need not have bothered when he reached his destation he found it deserted harry was not sure whether his chances of ttg side the roo were better with alfoy -side it or out, but at least his first attept was not gog to be plicated by the presence of crabbe or goyle pretendg to be an eleven-year-old girl
  he closed his eyes as he approached the pce where the roo of reirent39s door was ncealed he knew what he had to do he had bee ost aoplished at it st year ncentratg with all his ight he thought, “i need to see what alfoy39s dog here i need to see what alfoy39s dog here i need to see what alfoy39s dog here”
  three tis he walked past the door then, his heart poundg with excitent, he opened his eyes and faced it — but he was still lookg at a stretch of undanely bnk wall he oved forward and gave it an experintal ph the stone reaed lid and unyieldg
  ”okay,” said harry aloud ”okay i thought the wrong thg” he pondered for a ont then set off aga, eyes closed, n-centratg as hard as he uld “i need to see the pce where alfoy keeps g secretly i need to see the pce where alfoy keeps g secretly” after three walks past, he opened his eyes expectantly
  there was no door
  ”oh, e off it,” he told the wall irritably ”that was a clear struction fe” he thought hard for several utes before stridg off once ore “i need you to bee the pce you bee for dra alfoy”
  he did not idiately open his eyes when he had fished his patrollg he was listeng hard, as though he ight hear the door pop to existence he heard nothg, however, except the distant itterg of birds outside he opened his eyes
  there was still no door
  harry swore one scread he looked around to see a le of first years runng back around the rner, apparently un-der the ipression that they had jt enuntered a particurly foulouthed ghost
  harry tried every variation of ”i need to see what dra alfoy is dog side you” that he uld thk of for a whole hour, at the end of which he was forced to ncede that herione ight have had a pot: the roo siply did not want to open for hi fr-trated and annoyed, he set off for defense agast the dark arts, pullg off his visibility cloak and stuffg it to his bag as he went
  ”te aga, potter,” said snape ldly, as harry hurried to the candlelit cssroo ”ten pots fro gryfrdor” harry swled at snape as he fng hiself to the seat beside ron half the css were still on their feet, takg out books and a-nizg their thgs he uld not be uch ter than any of the
  ”before we start, i want your dentor essays,” said snape, wav-g his wand carelessly, that enty-five scrolls of parchnt ared to the air and nded a neat pile on his desk ”and i hope for your sakes they are better than the tripe i had to endure on resistg the iperi curse now, if you will all open your books to pa — what is it, r fnigan?”
  ”sir,” said sea, ”i39ve been wonderg, how do you tell the difference beeen an feri and a ghost? becae there was thg the paper about an feri —”
  ”no, there wasn39t,” said snape a bored voice
  ”but sir, i heard people talkg —”
  ”if you had actually read the article estion, r fnigan, you would have known that the -called feri was nothg but a slly sneak thief by the na of undung fletcher”
  ”i thought snape and undung were on the sa side,” ut-tered harry to ron and herione ”shouldn39t he be upset un-dung has been arrest —”
  ”but potter sees to have a lot to say on the subject,” said snape, potg suddenly at the back of the roo, his bck eyes fixed on harry ”let ask potter how we would tell the difference beeen an feri and a ghost”
  the whole css looked around at harry, who hastily tried to recall what dubledore had told hi the night that they had gone to visit sghorn ”er — well — ghosts are transparent —” he said
  ”oh, very good,” terrupted snape, his lip curlg ”yes, it easy to see that nearly six years of agical educatio