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  ”i ca to see dubledore,” said tonks harry thought she looked terrible: thner than ual, her oe-lored hair nk
  ”his office isn39t here,” said harry, ”it39s round the other side of the castle, behd the gargoyle —”
  ”i know,” said tonks ”he39s not there apparently he39s gone away aga”
  ”has he?” said harry, puttg his
  uised foot grly back on the floor ”hey — you don39t know where he goes, i suppose?”
  ”no,” said tonks
  ”what did you want to see hi about?”
  ”nothg particur,” said tonks, pickg, apparently unn-scioly, at the sleeve of her robe ”i jt thought he ight know what39s gog on i39ve heard ruors… people ttg hurt”
  ”yeah, i know, it39s all been the papers,” said harry ”that lit-tle kid tryg to kill his —”
  ”the prophet39s often behd the tis,” said tonks, who didn39t see to be listeng to hi ”you haven39t had any letters fro any-one the order recently?”
  ”no one fro the order writes to anyore,” said harry, ”not sce siri —“ he saw that her eyes had filled with tears
  ”i39 rry,” he uttered awkwardly ”i an i iss hi, as well”
  ”what?” said tonks bnkly, as though she had not heard hi ”well i39ll see you around, harry”
  and she turned a
  uptly and walked back down the rridor, leavg harry to stare after her after a ute or , he pulled the visibility cloak on aga and resud his efforts to t to the roo of reirent, but his heart was not it fally, a hollow feelg his stoach and the knowled that ron and herione would on be back for nch ade hi abandon the attept and leave the rridor to alfoy who, hopefully, would be too afraid to leave for hours to e
  he found ron and herione the great hall, already halfway through an early nch
  ”i did it — well, kd of!” ron told harry enthiastically when he caught sight of hi ”i was supposed to be apparatg to out-side ada puddifoots tea shop and i overshot it a bit, ended up near scrivenshafts, but at least i oved!”
  ”good one,” said harry ”how39d you do, herione?”
  ”oh, she was perfect, obvioly,” said ron, before herione uld answer ”perfect deliberation, divation, and desperation or whatever the hell it is — we all went for a ick drk the three
  oosticks after and you should39ve heard ycross gog on about her — i39ll be surprised if he doesn39t pop the estion on —”
  ”and what about you?” asked herione, ignorg ron ”have you been up at the roo of reirent all this ti?”
  ”yep,” said harry ”and guess who i ran to up there? tonks!”
  ”tonks?” repeated ron and herione tother, lookg surprised
  ”yeah, she said she39d e to visit dubledore”
  ”if you ask ,” said ron once harry had fished describg his nversation with tonks, ”she39s crackg up a bit losg her nerve after what happened at the istry”
  ”it’s a bit odd,” said herione, who for rean looked very ncerned ”she39s supposed to be guardg the school, why she suddenly abandong her post to e and see dubledore when he39s not even here?”
  ”i had a thought,” said harry tentatively he felt stran about voicg it this was uch ore herione’s territory than his ”you don39t thk she can have been you know love with siri?”
  herione stared at hi ”what on earth akes you say that?”
  ”i dunno,” said harry, g, ”but she was nearly cryg when i ntioned his na, and her patron is a big four-ed thg now i wondered whether it hadn39t bee you know hi”
  ”it39s a thought,” said herione slowly ”but i still don39t know why she39d be burstg to the castle to see dubledore, if that39s re-ally why she was here”
  ”goes back to what i said, doesn39t it?” said ron, who was now shovelg ashed potato to his outh ”she39s gone a bit funny lost her nerve won,” he said wisely to harry, ”they39re easily upset”
  ”and yet,” said herione, g out of her reverie, ”i doubt you39d fd a woan wh