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  nd it after that, y ory39s a bnk until about o weeks ago st ungo39s listen, i39d better go, i wouldn39t put it past cgonagall to give les even if it is y first day back ”
  she caught up her bag and books and hurried after her friends, leavg harry, ron, and herione to sit down at a dow table and ponder what she had told the
  ” it t have been a girl or a woan who gave katie the neckce,” said herione, ”to be the dies39 bathroo”
  ”or one who looked like a girl or a woan,” said harry ”don39t fet, there was a cauldron full of polyjuice potion at hog-warts we know of it got stolen  ”
  his d39s eye, he watched a parade of crabbes and goyles prance past, all transford to girls
  ”i thk i39 gog to take another swig of felix,” said harry, ”and have a go at the roo of reirent aga”
  ”that would be a plete waste of potion,” said herione ftly, puttg down the py of spellans sylbary she had jt taken out of her bag ”ck can only t you far, harry the situation with sghorn was different you always had the ability to persuade hi, you jt needed to eak the circustances a bit ck isn39t enough to t you through a powerful enchantnt, though don39t go wastg the rest of that potion! you39ll need all the ck you can t if dubledore takes you along with hi ” she dropped her voice to a whisper
  ”uldn39t we ake ore?” ron asked harry, ignorg herione ”it39d be great to have a stock of it have a look the book ”
  harry pulled his py of advanced potion-akg out of his bap, and looked up felix felicis
  ”bliy, its serioly plicated,” he said, runng an eye down the list of gredients ”and it takes six onths, you39ve got to let it stew ”
  ”typical,” said ron
  harry was about to put his book away aga when he noticed the rner of a pa folded down turng to it, he saw the sectu-sepra spell, captioned ”for eneies,” that he had arked a few weeks previoly he had still not found out what it did, aly becae he did not want to test it around herione, but he was nsiderg tryg it out on en next ti he ca up behd hi unawares
  the only pern who was not particurly pleased to see katie bell back at school was dean thoas, becae he would no lonr be reired to fill her pce as chaser he took the blow stoically enough when harry told hi, rely gruntg and g, but harry had the distct feelg as he walked away that dean and sea were utterg utoly behd his back
  the follog fortnight saw the best idditch practices harry had known as capta his tea was pleased to be rid of en, gd to have katie back at st, that they were flyg extrely well
  gny did not see at all upset about the
  eakup with dean on the ntrary, she was the life and ul of the tea her iitations of ron anxioly bobbg up and down front of the goal posts as the affle sped toward hi, or of harry bellog orders at en before beg knocked out ld, kept the all highly aed harry, ughg with the others, was gd to have an nocent rean to look at gny he had received several ore bdr juries durg practice becae he had not been keepg his eyes on the snitch
  the battle still rad side his head: gny or ron? tis he thought that the post-vender ron ight not d too uch if he asked gny out, but then he rebered ron39s expression when he had seen her kissg dean, and was sure that ron would nsider it base treachery if harry uch as held her hand
  yet harry uld not help hiself talkg to gny, ughg with her, walkg back fro practice with her however uch his nscience ached, he found hiself wonderg how best to t her on her own it would have been ideal if sghorn had given another of his little parties, for ron would not be around — but unfortunately, sghorn seed to have given the up once or ice harry nsidered askg for herione39s help, but he did not thk he uld stand seeg the sug look on her face he thought he caught it tis when herione spotted hi starg at gny or ughg at her jokes and to plicate atters, he had the g worry that if he didn39t do it, body else was sure to ask gny out on: he and ron were at least agreed on the fact that she was too popur for her own good
  all all, the teptation to take another gulp of felix felicis was beg stronr by the day, for surely this was a case for, as herione put it, ”eakg the circustances”? the baly days slid ntly th