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ed a leg-locker curse that backfired off the wall be-hd alfoy39s ear and sashed the cistern beneath oang yr-tle, who scread loudly water poured everywhere and harry slipped as alfoy, his face ntorted, cried, ”cruci —”
”sectusepra!” bellowed harry fro the floor, wavg his wand wildly
blood spurted fro alfoy39s face and chest as though he had been sshed with an visible sword he ered backward and lpsed onto the ed floor with a great spsh, his wand fallg fro his lip right hand
”no —” gasped harry
slippg and erg, harry got to his feet and pnd toward alfoy, whose face was now shg scarlet, his white hands scrabblg at his blood-aked chest
”no — i didn39t —”
harry did not know what he was sayg he fell to his knees beside alfoy, who was shakg unntrolbly a pool of his own blood oang yrtle let out a deafeng screa: ”urder! urder the bathroo! urder!”
the door band open behd harry and he looked up, terrified: snape had burst to the roo, his face livid phg harry roughly aside, he knelt over alfoy, drew his wand, and traced it over the deep wounds harry39s curse had ade, utterg an cantation that unded alost like ng the flow of blood seed to ease snape wiped the residue fro alfoy39s face and repeated his spell now the wounds seed to be knittg
harry was still watchg, horrified by what he had done, barely aware that he too was aked blood and water oang yrtle was still bbg and wailg overhead when snape had perford his untercurse for the third ti, he half-lifted alfoy to a standg position
”you need the hospital g there ay be a certa aount of scarrg, but if you take dittany idiately we ight avoid even that e”
he supported alfoy across the bathroo, turng at the door to say a voice of ld fury, ”and you, potter you wait here for ”
it did not our to harry for a send to dibey he stood up slowly, shakg, and looked down at the wet floor there were bloodstas floatg like crin flowers across its surface he uld not even fd it hiself to tell oang yrtle to be iet, as she ntued to wail and b with creasgly evident enjoynt
snape returned ten utes ter he stepped to the bathroo and closed the door behd hi
”go,” he said to yrtle, and she swooped back to her toilet at once, leavg a rgg silence behd her
”i didn39t an it to happen,” said harry at once his voice echoed the ld, watery space ”i didn39t know what that spell did”
but snape ignored this ”apparently i underestiated you, potter,” he said ietly ”who would have thought you knew such dark agic? who taught you that spell?”
”i — read about it where”
”where?”
”it was — a li
ary book,” harry vented wildly ”i can39t reber what it was call —”
”liar,” said snape harry39s throat went dry he knew what snape was gog to do and he had never been able to prevent it
the bathroo seed to shir before his eyes he led to block out all thought, but try as he ight, the half-blood prce39s py of advanced potion-akg swa hazily to the forefront of his d
and then he was starg at snape aga, the idst of this wrecked, aked bathroo he stared to snape39s bck eyes, hopg agast hope that snape had not seen what he feared, but —
”
g your schoolbag,” said snape ftly, ”and all of your schoolbooks all of the
g the to here now!”
there was no pot argug harry turned at once and spshed
out of the bathroo once the rridor, he
oke to a run toward gryffdor tower ost people were walkg the other way they gaped at hi, drenched water and blood, but he answered none of the estions fired at hi as he ran past
he felt stunned it was as though a beloved pet had turned suddenly sava what had the prce been thkg to py such a spell to his book? and what would happen when snape saw it? would he tell sghorn — harry39s stoach churned — how harry had been achievg such good results potions all year? would he nfiscate or destroy the book that had taught harry uch the book that had bee a kd of guide and friend? harry uld not let it happen he uld not
”where39ve you — ? why are you akg — ? is that blood” ron was standg at the of the stairs, lookg bewildered at , the sight of harry
”i need your book,” harry panted ”your potions book ick g