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  ed the tip of his wand to his teple and withdrew it, that a long, silver thread of ory ca away too, clgg to the wand tip lonr and lonr the ory stretched until it
  oke and swung, silvery
  ight, fro the wand sghorn lowered it to the bottle where it iled, then spread, swirlg like gas he rked the bottle with a treblg hand and then passed it across the table to harry
  ”thank you very uch, profesr”
  ”you39re a good boy,” said profesr sghorn, tears tricklg down his fat cheeks to his walr tache ”and you39ve got her eyes  jt don39t thk too badly of once you39ve seen it  ,”
  and he too put his head on his ars, gave a deep sigh, and fell asleep
  chapter 23: horcruxes
  harry uld feel the felix felicis wearg off as he creeped back to the castle the front door had reaed un locked for hi, but on the third floor he t peeves and only narrowly avoided detection by divg sideways through one of his shortcuts by the ti he got up to the portrait of the fat dy and pulled off his visibility cloak, he was not surprised to fd her a ost unhelpful ood
  ”what rt of ti do you call this?”
  ”i39 really rry — i had to go out for thg iportant —”
  ”well, the password chand at idnight, you39ll jt have to sleep the rridor, won39t you?”
  ”you39re jokg!” said harry ”why did it have to chan at idnight?”
  ”that39s the way it is,” said the fat dy ”if you39re angry, go and take it up with the headaster, he39s the one who39s tightened security”
  ”fantastic,” said harry bitterly, lookg around at the hard floor ”really
  illiant yeah, i would go and take it up with dubledore if he was here, becae he39s the one who wanted to —”
  ”he is here,” said a voice behd harry ”profesr dubledore returned to the school an hour ago”
  nearly headless nick was glidg toward harry, his head wob-blg as ual upon his ruff
  ”i had it fro the bloody baron, who saw hi arrive,” said nick ”he appeared, aordg to the baron, to be good spirits, though a little tired, of urse”
  ”where is he?” said harry, his heart leapg,”
  ”oh, groang and cnkg up on the astronoy tower, it39s a, favorite pasti of his —”
  ”not the bloody baron — dubledore!”
  ”oh — his office,” said nick ”i believe, fro what the baron said, that he had bess to attend to before turng —”
  ”yeah, he has,” said harry, excitent bzg his chest at the prospect of tellg dubledore he had secured the ory he wheeled about and sprted off aga, ignorg the fat dy who was callg after hi
  ”e back! all right, i lied! i was annoyed you woke up! the password39s still 39tapewor39!”
  but harry was already hurtlg back along the rridor and with utes, he was sayg ”toffee ecirs” to dubledore39s gar-goyle, which leapt aside, perittg harry entrance onto the spiral staircase
  ”enter,” said dubledore when harry knocked he unded exhated harry phed open the door there was dubledore39s office, lookg the sa as ever, but with bck, star-strewn skies beyond the dows
  ”good gracio, harry,” said dubledore surprise ”to what do i owe this very te pleasure?”
  ”sir — i39ve got it i’ve got the ory fro sghorn”
  harry pulled out the ty gss bottle and showed it to dubledore for a ont or o, the headaster looked stunned then his face split a wide sile
  ”harry, this is spectacur news! very well done deed! i knew you uld do it!”
  all thought of the teness of the hour apparently fotten, he hurried around his desk, took the bottle with sghorn39s ory his unjured hand, and strode over to the cabet where he kepi the pensieve
  ”and now,” said dubledore, pcg the stone bas upon the desk and eptyg the ntents of the bottle to it ”now, at st we shall see harry, ickly  ”
  harry bowed obediently over the pensieve and felt his feet leave the office floor  once aga he fell through darkness and nded horace sghorn39s office any years before there was the uch younr sghorn, with his thick, shy, straw-lored hair and his gry-blond tache, sittg aga the