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  os-sible, but positively easy
  he got to his feet, silg,
  ig with nfidence
  ”excellent,” he said ”really excellent right  i39 gog down to hagrid39s”
  ”what?” said ron and herione tother, lookg aghast
  ”no, harry — you39ve got to go and see sghorn, reber?” said herione
  ”no,” said harry nfidently ”i39 gog to hagrid39s, i39ve got a good feelg about gog to hagrid39s”
  ”you39ve got a good feelg about buryg a giant spider?” asked ron, lookg stunned
  ”yeah,” said harry, pullg his visibility cloak out of his bag ”i feel like it39s the pce to be tonight, you know what i an?”
  ”no,” said ron and herione tother, both lookg positively ard now
  ”this is felix felicis, i suppose?” said herione anxioly, holdg up the bottle to the light ”you haven39t got another little bottle full of— i don39t know —”
  ”essence of sanity?” ested ron, as harry swung his cloak over his shoulders
  harry ughed, and ron and herione looked even ore ard
  ”trt ,” he said ”i know what i39 dog or at least” he strolled nfidently to the door— ”felix does”
  he pulled the visibility cloak over his head and set off down the stairs, ron and herione hurryg along behd hi at the foot of the stairs, harry slid through the open door
  ”what were you dog up there with her!” shrieked vender
  own, starg right through harry at ron and herione ergg tother fro the boys39 doritories harry heard ron sptter-g behd hi as he darted across the roo away fro the
  ttg through the portrait hole was siple as he approached it, gny and dean ca through it, and harry was able to slip beeen the as he did , he
  hed aidentally agast gny
  ”don39t ph , please, dean,” she said, undg annoyed ”you39re always dog that, i can t through perfectly well on y own ”
  the portrait swung closed behd harry, but not before he had heard dean ake an angry retort  his feelg of etion -creasg, harry strode off through the castle he did not have to creep along, for he t nobody on his way, but this did not surprise hi the slightest this eveng, he was the ckiest pern at hogwarts
  why he knew that gog to hagrid39s was the right thg to do, he had no idea it was as though the potion was ilatg a few steps of the path at a ti he uld not see the fal destation, he uld not see where sghorn ca , but he knew that he was gog the right way to t that ory when he reached the en-trance hall he saw that filch had fotten to lock the front door beag, harry threw it open and
  eathed the sll of clean air and grass for a ont before walkg down the steps to the dk
  it was when he reached the botto step that it ourred to hi how very pleasant it would be to pass the vetable patch on his walk to hagrid39s it was not strictly on the way, but it seed clear to harry that this was a whi on which he should act, he di-rected his feet idiately toward the vetable patch, where he was pleased, but not altother surprised, to fd profesr sghorn nversation with profesr sprout harry rked be-hd a low stone wall, feelg at peace with the world and listeng to their nversation
  ”i do thank you for takg the ti, poona,” sghorn was sayg urteoly, ”ost authorities agree that they are at their ost efficacio if picked at ilight”
  ”oh, i ite agree,” said profesr sprout warly ”that enough for you?”
  ”plenty, plenty,” said sghorn, who, harry saw, was carryg an arful of leafy pnts ”this should allow for a few leaves for each of y third years, and to spare if anybody over-stews the  well, good eveng to you, and any thanks aga!”
  profesr sprout headed off to the gatherg darkness the direction of her greenhoes, and sghorn directed his steps to the spot where harry stood, visible
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  seized with an idiate desire to reveal hiself, harry pullet i off the cloak with a flourish
  ”good eveng, profesr”
  ”rl’s beard, harry, you ade jup,” said sghotn, spg dead his tracks and lookg wary ”how did you t out of the castle?”
  ”i thk filch