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  swooshg his wake harry had never seen hi agitated ”by atteptg to kill you, voldeort hiself sgled out the reark-able pern who sits here front of , and gave hi the tools for the job! it is voldeort39s fault that you were able to see to his thoughts, his abitions, that you even understand the snakelike ngua which he gives orders, and yet, harry, despite your priviled sight to voldeort39s world which, cidentally, is a gift any death eater would kill to have, you have never been se-duced by the dark arts, never, even for a send, shown the slight-est desire to bee one of voldeort39s followers!”
  ”of urse i haven39t!” said harry dignantly ”he killed y u and dad!”
  ”you are protected, short, by your ability to love!” said du-bledore loudly ”the only protection that can possibly work agast the re of power like voldeort39s! spite of all the teptation you have endured, all the sufferg, you rea pure of heart, jt as pure as you were at the a of eleven, when you stared to a ir-ror that reflected your heart39s desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart lord voldeort, and not iortality or riches harry, have you any idea how few wizards uld have seen what you saw that irror? voldeort should have known then what he was dealg with, but he did not! but he knows it now you have flitted to lord voldeort39s d without daa to yourself, but he cannot possess you with-out endurg ortal agony, as he disvered the istry i do not thk he understands why, harry, but then, he was such a hurry to utite his own ul, he never paed to understand the parable power of a ul that is untarnished and whole”
  ”but, sir,” said harry, akg valiant efforts not to und argu-ntative, ”it all es to the sa thg, doesn39t it? i39ve got to try and kill hi, or —”
  ”got to?” said dubledore ”of urse you39ve got to! but not becae of the prophecy! becae you, yourself, will never rest until you39ve tried! we both know it! iage, please, jt for a ont,
  that you had never heard that prophecy! how would you feel about voldeort now? thk!”
  harry watched dubledore stridg up and down front ol hi, and thought he thought of his other, his father, and s he thought of cedric ory he thought of all the terrible deeds he knew lord voldeort had done a f seed to leap side his chest, searg his throat
  ”i39d want hi fished,” said harry ietly ”and i39d want to do it”
  ”of urse you would!” cried dubledore ”you see, the prophecy does not an you have to do anythg! but the prophecy caed lord voldeort to ark you as his eal  other words, you are free to choose your way, ite free to turn your back on the prophecy! but voldeort ntues to set store by the prophecy he will ntue to hunt you  which akes it certa, really, that —”
  ”that one of is gog to end up killg the other,” said harry ”yes”
  but he understood at st what dubledore had been tryg to tell hi it was, he thought, the difference beeen beg ed to the arena to face a battle to the death and walkg to the arena with your head held high people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose beeen the o ways, but duble-dore knew — and do i, thought harry, with a rh of fierce pride, and did y parents — that there was all the difference the world
  chapter 24: sectusepra
  exhated but delighted with his night39s work, harry told ron and herione everythg that had happened durg next orng39s chars lesn havg first cast the uffliato spell upon those nearest the they were both satisfygly ipressed by the way he had wheedled the ory out of sghorn and positively awed when he told the about voldeort39s horcruxes and dubledore39s proise to take harry along, should he fd another one
  ”wow,” said ron, when harry had fally fished tellg the everythg ron was wavg his wand very vaguely the direction of the ceilg without payg the slightest bit of attention to what he was dog ”wow you39re actually gog to go with dubledore  and try and destroy  wow”
  ”ron, you39re akg it snow,” said herione patiently, grabbg his wrist and redirectg his wand away fro the ceilg fro which, sure enough, r white fkes had started to fall vender
  own, harry noticed, gred at herione fro a neighborg table through very red eyes, and herione idiately let go of rons ar
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