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  n have not been wasted on you, potter 39ghosts are transparent”39
  pansy parkn let out a high-pitched le several other peo-ple were sirkg harry took a deep
  eath and ntued cally, though his sides were boilg, ”yeah, ghosts are transparent, but feri are dead bodies, aren39t they? they39d be lid —”
  ”a five-year-old uld have told as uch,” sneered snape ”the feri is a rpse that has been reaniated by a dark wiz-ard39s spells it is not alive, it is rely ed like a puppet to do the wizard39s biddg a ghost, as i trt that you are all aware by now, is the iprt of a departed ul left upon the earth, and of urse, as potter wisely tells , transparent ”
  ”well, what harry said is the ost eful if we39re tryg to tell the apart!” said ron ”when we e face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we39re gog to be havg a look to see if its lid, aren39t we, we39re not gog to be askg, 39exce , are you the iprt of a departed ul?39” there was a ripple of ughter, stantly elled by the look snape gave the css
  ”another ten pots fro gryffdor,” said snape ”i would ex-pect nothg ore phisticated fro you, ronald weasley, the boy lid he cannot apparate half an ch across a roo”
  ”no!” whispered herione, grabbg harrys ar as he opened his outh furioly ”there39s no pot, you39ll jt end up deten-tion aga, leave it!”
  ”now open your books to pa o hundred and thirteen,” said snape, sirkg a little, ”and read the first o paragraphs on the cruciat curse”
  ron was very subdued all through the css when the bell unded at the end of the lesn, vender caught up with ron and harry herione ysterioly lted out of sight as she ap-proached and abed snape hotly for his jibe about ron39s appari-tion, but this seed to rely irritate ron, and he shook her off by akg a detour to the boys39 bathroo with harry
  ”snape39s right, though, isn39t he?” said ron, after starg to a cracked irror for a ute or o ”i dunno whether it39s worth takg the test i jt can39t t the hang of apparition”
  ”you ight as well do the extra practice sessions hogsade and see where they t you,” said harry reanably ”it39ll be ore terestg than tryg to t to a stupid hoop anyway then, if you39re still not — you know — as good as you39d like to be, you can postpone the test, do it with over the sur — yrtle, this is the boys39 bathroo!”
  the ghost of a girl had risen out of the toilet a cubicle behd the and was now floatg idair, starg at the through thick, white, round gsses ”oh,” she said gly ”it39s you o”
  ”who were you expectg?” said ron, lookg at her the irror
  ”nobody,” said yrtle, pickg oodily at a spot on her ch ”he said he39d e back and see , but then you said you39d pop and visit too” — she gave harry a reproachful look — ”and i haven39t seen you for onths and onths i39ve learned not to ex-pect too uch fro boys”
  ”i thought you lived that girls39 bathroo?” said harry, who had been careful to give the pce a wide berth for years now
  ”i do,” she said, with a sulky little shrug, ”but that doesn39t an i cant visit other pces i ca and saw you your bath once, reber?”
  ”vividly,” said harry
  ”but i thought he liked ,” she said ptively ”aybe if you o left, he39d e back aga we had lots on i39 sure he felt it”
  and she looked hopefully toward the door ”when you say you had lots on,” said ron, undg rather aed now, ”d39you an he lives an s-bend too?”
  ”no,” said yrtle defiantly, her voice echog loudly around the old tiled bathroo ”i an he39s sensitive, people bully hi too, and he feels lonely and hasn39t got anybody to talk to, and he39s not afraid to show his feelgs and cry!”
  ”there39s been a boy here cryg?” said harry curioly ”a young boy?”
  ”never you d!” said yrtle, her sall, leaky eyes fixed on ron, who was now defitely grng ”i proised i wouldn39t tell anyone, and i39ll take his secret to the —”
  ”— not the grave, surely?” said ron with a snort