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  orn39s structions, but which ight harry39s heart leapt as the thought struck hi put sghorn to such a good ood that he would be prepared to hand over that ory if harry uld persuade hi to taste
  ”well, now, this looks abtely wonderful,” said sghorn an hour and a half ter, cppg his hands tother as he stared down to the sunshe yellow ntents of harry39s cauldron ”euphoria, i take it? and what39s that i sll?   you39ve added jt a sprig of peppert, haven39t you? unorthodox, but what a stroke of spiration, harry, of urse, that would tend to unterbance the oa-sional side effects of excessive sgg and nose-eakg i really don39t know where you t these
  a waves, y boy  unless —”
  harry phed the half-blood prce39s book deeper to his bag with his foot
  ”— it39s jt your other39s nes g out you!”
  ”oh  yeah, aybe,” said harry, relieved
  ernie was lookg rather grupy detered to outshe harry for once, he had ost rashly vented his own potion, which had curdled and ford a kd of purple duplg at the botto of his cauldron alfoy was already packg up, ur-faced sghorn had pronounced his upg tion rely ”passable”
  the bell rang and both ernie and alfoy left at once ”sir,” harry began, but sghorn idiately gnced over his shoulder when he saw that the roo was epty but for hiself and harry, he hurried away as fast as he uld
  ”profesr — profesr, don39t you want to taste y po — ?” called harry desperately
  but sghorn had gone disappoted, harry eptied the caul-dron, packed up his thgs, left the dunon, and walked slowly back upstairs to the on roo
  ron and herione returned the te afternoon
  ”harry!” cried herione as she clibed through the portrait hole ”harry, i passed!”
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  ”well done!” he said ”and ron?”
  ”he — he jt failed,” whispered herione, as ron ca slouchg to the roo lookg ost orose ”it was really uncky, a ty thg, the exaer jt spotted that he39d left half an eye
  ow behd  how did it go with sghorn?”
  ”no joy,” said harry, as ron joed the ”bad ck, ate, but you39ll pass next ti — we can take it tother”
  ”yeah, i s39pose,” said ron grupily ”but half an eye
  ow – like that atters!”
  ”i know,” said herione othgly, ”it does see really harsh ”
  they spent ost of their dner roundly abg the apparition exaer, and ron looked fractionally ore cheerful by the ti they set off back to the on roo, now discsg the ntug proble of sghorn and the ory
  ”, harry — you gog to e the felix felicis or what?” ron deanded
  ”yeah, i s39pose i39d better,” said harry ”i don39t reckon i39ll need all of it, not enty-four hours39 worth, it can39t take all night i39ll jt take a outhful o or three hours should do it”
  ”it39s a great feelg when you take it,” said ron reiscently ”like you can39t do anythg wrong”
  ”what are you talkg about?” said herione, ughg ”you39ve never taken any!”
  ”yeah, but i thought i had, didn39t i?” said ron, as though ex-pg the obvio ”sa difference really ”
  as they had only jt seen sghorn enter the great hall and knew that he liked to take ti over als, they lred for a while the on roo, the pn beg that harry should go to sghorn s office once the teacher had had ti to t back there when the sun had sunk to the level of the trees the forbid-den forest, they decided the ont had e, and after check-g carefully that neville, dean, and sea were all the on roo, sneaked up to the boys39 doritory
  harry took out the rolled-up cks at the botto of his trunk and extracted the ty, gleag bottle
  ”well, here goes,” said harry, and he raised the little bottle and look a carefully asured gulp
  ”what does it feel like?” whispered herione
  harry did not answer for a ont then, slowly but surely, an exhiratg sense of fite opportunity stole through hi he felt as though he uld have done anythg, anythg at all and ttg the ory fro sghorn seed suddenly not only p