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  olled sideways onto his ars and he fell asleep, snorg deeply
  ”rry,” said sghorn with a up ”can39t carry a tune to save y life”
  ”hagrid wasn39t talkg about your sgg,” said harry ietly ”he was talkg about y u and dad dyg”
  ”oh,” said sghorn, repressg a r belch ”oh dear yes, that was — was terrible deed terrible  terrible ”
  he looked ite at a loss for what to say, and rerted to refillg their ugs
  ”i don39t — don39t suppose you reber it, harry?” he asked awkwardly
  ”no — well, i was only one when they died,” said harry, his eyes on the f of the candle flickerg hagrid39s heavy snores ”but i39ve found out pretty uch what happened sce y dad died first did you know that?”
  ”i — i didn39t,” said sghorn a hhed voice
  ”yeah  voldeort urdered hi and then stepped over his body toward y u,” said harry
  sghorn gave a great shudder, but he did not see able to tear his horrified gaze away fro harry39s face
  ”he told her to t out of the way,” said harry reorselessly ”he told she needn39t have died he only wanted she uld have run”
  ”oh dear,”
  eathed sghorn ”she uld have  she needn39t  that39s awful  ”
  ”it is, isn39t it?” said harry, a voice barely ore than a whisper ”but she didn39t ove dad was already dead, but she didn39t want to go too she tried to plead with voldeort  but he jt ughed”
  ”that39s enough!” said sghorn suddenly, raisg a shakg hand ”really, y dear boy, enough  i39 an old an i don39t need to hear i don39t want to hear ”
  ”i fot,” lied harry, felix felicis leadg hi on ”you liked her, didn39t you?”
  ”liked her?” said sghorn, his eyes
  ig with tears once ore ”i don39t iage anyone who t her wouldn39t have liked her  very
  ave  very funny it was the ost horrible thg ”
  ”but you won39t help her n,” said harry ”she gave her life, but you won39t give a ory”
  hagrid39s rublg snores filled the cab harry looked steadily to sghorn39s tear-filled eyes the potions aster seed unable to look away
  ”don39t say that,” he whispered ”it isn39t a estion if it were to help you, of urse  but no purpose can be served  ”
  ”it can,” said harry clearly ”dubledore needs ration i need ration”
  he knew he was safe: felix was tellg hi that sghorn would reber nothg of this the orng lookg sghorn straight the eye, harry leaned forward a little
  ”i a the chosen one i have to kill hi i need that ory”
  sghorn turned paler than ever his shy forehead glead with sweat
  ”you are the chosen one?”  i
  ”of urse i a,” said harry cally
  ”but then  y dear boy  you39re askg a great deal  you39re askg , fact, to aid you your attept to destroy-“
  ”you don39t want to t rid of the wizard who killed lily evans?39”
  ”harry, harry, of urse i do, but —”
  ”you39re scared he39ll fd out you helped ?”
  sghorn said nothg he looked terrified
  ”be
  ave like y other, profesr  ”
  sghorn raised a pudgy hand and pressed his shakg frs to his outh he looked for a ont like an enoroly overgrown baby
  ”i a not proud  ” he whispered through his frs ”i a ashad of what — of what that ory shows i thk i ay have done great daa that day ”
  ”you39d cancel out anythg you did by givg the ory,” said harry ”it would be a very
  ave and noble thg to do”
  hagrid itched his sleep and snored on sghorn and harry stared at each other over the gutterg candle there was a long, long silence, but felix felicis told harry not to
  eak it, to wait then, very slowly, sghorn put his hand his pocket and pulled out his wand he put his other hand side his cloak and took out a sall, epty bottle still lookg to harry39s eyes, sghorn touch