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  harry did not answer the thought of that little golden bottle had hovered on the eds of his iagation for ti vague and unforuted pns that volved gny splittg up with dean, and ron how beg happy to see her with a new boyfriend, had been ferntg the depths of his
  a, unacknowledd except durg dreas or the ilight ti beeen sleepg and wakg
  ”harry? are you still with ?” asked herione
  ”wha — ? yeah, of urse,” he said, pullg hiself tother ”well  okay if i can39t t sghorn to talk this afternoon, i39ll take felix and have another go this eveng”
  ”that39s decided, then,” said herione
  iskly, ttg to her feet and perforg a graceful pirouette ”destation  detera-tion  deliberation  ” she urured
  ”oh, s that,” ron ed her, ”i feel sick enough as it is — ick, hide !”
  ”it isn39t vender!” said herione ipatiently, as another u-ple of girls appeared the urtyard and ron dived behd her
  ”ol,” said ron, peerg over heriones shoulder to check ”bliy, they don39t look happy, do they?”
  ”they39re the ontgory sisters and of urse they don39t look happy, didn39t you hear what happened to their little
  other?” said herione
  ”i39 losg track of what39s happeng to everyone39s retives, to be honest,” said ron
  ”well, their
  other was attacked by a werewolf the ruor is that their other refed to help the death eaters anyway, the boy was only five and he died st ungos, they uldn39t save hi”
  ”he died?” repeated harry, shocked ”but surely werewolves don39t kill, they jt turn you to one of the?”
  ”they tis kill,” said ron, who looked unually grave now ”i39ve heard of it happeng when the werewolf ts carried away”
  ”what was the werewolf39s na?” said harry ickly
  ”well, the ruor is that it was that fenrir greyback,” said herione
  ”i knew it — the aniac who likes attackg kids, the one p told about!” said harry angrily
  herione looked at hi bleakly
  ”harry, you39ve got to t that ory,” she said ”it39s all about spg voldeort, isn39t it? these dreadful thgs that are hap-peng are all down to hi  ”
  the bell rang overhead the castle and both herione and ron juped to their feet, lookg terrified
  ”you39ll do fe,” harry told the both, as they headed toward the entrance hall to et the rest of the people takg their ap-parition test ”good ck”
  ”and you too!” said herione with a significant look, as harry headed off to the dunons
  there were only three of the potions that afternoon: harry, ernie, and dra alfoy
  ”all too young to apparate jt yet?” said sghorh nially, ”not turned seventeen yet?”
  they shook their heads
  ”ah well,” said sghorn cheerily, ”as we39re few, we39ll do thg for fun i want you all to
  ew up thg ag!”
  ”that unds good, sir,” said ernie syphantically, rubbg his hands tother alfoy, on the other hand, did not crack a sile ”what do you an, 39thg ag39?” he said irritably ”oh, surprise ,” said sghorn airily
  alfoy opened his py of advanced potion-akg with a sulky expression it uld not have been per that he thought this les-n was a waste of ti undoubtedly, harry thought, watchg hi over the of his own book, alfoy was begrudgg the ti he uld otherwise be spendg the roo of reirent
  was it his iagation, or did alfoy, like tonks, look thner! certaly he looked paler his sk still had that grayish t, probably becae he rarely saw daylight these days but there was no air of sugness, excitent, or superiority none of the er that he had had on the hogwarts express, when he had boasted openly of the ission he had been given by voldeort  there uld be only one ncsion, harry39s opion: the ission, whatever it was, was gog badly
  cheered by this thought, harry skid through his py of advanced potion-akg and found a heavily rrected half-blood prce39s version of ”an elixir to duce euphoria,” which seed not only to et sgh