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  rough ay, and ron seed to be there at harry39s shoulder every ti he saw gny harry found hiself longg for a stroke of ck that would how cae ron to realize that nothg would ake hi happier than his best friend and his sister fallg for each other and to leave the alone tother for lonr than a few sends there seed no chance of either while the fal idditch ga of the sean was loog ron wanted to talk tactics with harry all the ti and had little thought for anythg else
  ron was not unie this respect terest the gryffdor-ravencw ga was runng extrely high throughout the school, for the atch would decide the chapionship, which was still wide open if gryffdor beat ravencw by a arg of three hundred pots a tall order, and yet harry had never known his tea to fly better then they would the chapionship if they won by less than three hundred pots, they would e send to ravencw if they lost by a hundred pots they would be third behd hufflepuff and if they lost by ore than a hundred, they would be fourth pce and nobody, harry thought, would ever, ever let hi fet that it had been he who had captaed gryffdor to their first botto-of-the-table defeat o centuries
  the run-up to this crucial atch had all the ual features: bers of rival hoes atteptg to tiidate opposg teas the rridors unpleasant chants about dividual pyers beg rehearsed loudly as they passed the tea bers theselves either erg around enjoyg all the attention or else dashg to bathroos beeen csses to throw up how, the ga had bee extricably lked harry39s d with ess or faire his pns for gny he uld not help feelg that if they won by ore than three hundred pots, the scenes of euphoria and a nice loud after-atch party ight be jt as good as a hearty swig of felix felicis
  the idst of all his upations, harry had not fotten his other abition: fdg out what alfoy was up to the roo of reirent he was still checkg the arauder39s ap, and as he was unable to locate alfoy on it, deduced that alfoy was still spendg plenty of ti with the roo although harry was losg hope that he would ever eed ttg side the roo of reirent, he attepted it whenever he was the vicity, but no atter how he reworded his reest, the wall reaed firly doorless
  a few days before the atch agast ravencw, harry found hiself walkg down to dner alone fro the on roo, ron havg rhed off to a nearby bathroo to throw up yet aga, and herione havg dashed off to see profesr vector about a istake she thought she ight have ade her st arithancy essay ore out of habit than anythg, harry ade his ual detour along the seventh-floor rridor, checkg the arauder39s ap as he went for a ont he uld not fd alfoy anywhere and assud he t deed be side the roo of reirent aga, but then he saw alfoy39s ty, beled dot standg a boys39 bathroo on the floor below, aopanied, not by crabbe or goyle, but by oang yrtle
  harry only sped starg at this unlikely uplg when he walked right to a suit of aror the loud crash
  ought hi out of his reverie hurryg fro the scene lest filch turn up, he dashed down the arble staircase and along the passaway below outside the bathroo, he pressed his ear agast the door he uld not hear anythg he very ietly phed the door open
  dra alfoy was standg with his back to the door, his hands ctchg either side of the sk, his white-blond head bowed
  ”don39t,” crooned oang yrtle39s voice fro one of the cubicles ”don39t  tell what39s wrong i can help you  ”
  ”no one can help ,” said alfoy his whole body was shakg ”i can39t do it i can39t it won39t work  and unless 1 do it on he says he39ll kill ”
  and harry realized, with a shock hu it seed to root hi to the spot, that alfoy was cryg — actually cryg — tears streag down his pale face to the griy bas alfoy gasped and gulped and then, with a great shudder, looked up to f-cracked irror and saw harry starg at hi over his shoulder
  alfoy wheeled around, drag his wand stctively, harry pulled out his own alfoy39s hex issed harry by ches, shatterg the p on the wall beside hi harry threw hiself sideways, thought levirp! and flicked his wand, but alfoy blocked the jx and raised his wand for another —
  ”no! no! s it!” sealed oang yrtle, her voice echog loudly around the tiled roo ”s! s!”
  there was a loud bang and the b behd harry exploded harry attept