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  said harry, still refg to look to snape39s eyes
  ”well, we shall see how you feel after your detentions,” said snape ”ten o39clock saturday orng, potter y office”
  ”but sir  ” said harry, lookg up desperately ”idditch  the st atch of the ”
  ”ten o39clock,” whispered snape, with a sile that showed his yellow teeth ”poor gryffdor  fourth pce this year, i fear ”
  and he left the bathroo without another word, leavg harry to stare to the cracked irror, feelg sicker, he was sure, than ron had ever felt his life
  ”i won39t say 39i told you ,39” said herione, an hour ter the on roo
  ”leave it, herione,” said ron angrily
  harry had never ade it to dner he had no appetite at all he had jt fished tellg ron, herione, and gny what had happened, not that there seed to have been uch need the news had traveled very fast: apparently oang yrtle had taken it upon herself to pop up every bathroo the castle to tell the story alfoy had already been visited the hospital g by pansy parkn, who had lost no ti vilifyg harry far and wide, and snape had told the staff precisely what had happened harry had already been called out of the on roo to endure fifteen highly unpleasant utes the pany of profesr cgonagall, who had told hi he was cky not to have been expelled and that she supported wholeheartedly snape39s punishnt of detention every saturday until the end of ter
  ”i told you there was thg wrong with that prce pern,” herione said, evidently unable to s herself ”and i was right, wasn39t i”
  ”no, i don39t thk you were,” said harry stubbornly
  he was havg a bad enough ti without herione lecturg hi the looks on the gryffdor tea39s faces when he had told the he would not be able to py on saturday had been the worst punishnt of all he uld feel gny39s eyes on hi now but did not et the he did not want to see disappotnt or anr there he had jt told her that she would be pyg seeker on saturday and that dean would be rejog the tea as chaser her pce perhaps, if they won, gny and dean would ake up durg the post-atch euphoria  the thought went through harry like an icy knife
  ”harry,” said herione, ”how can you still stick up for that book when that spell —”
  ”will you s harpg on about the book!” snapped harry ”the prce only pied it out! it39s not like he was advisg anyone to e it! for all we know, he was akg a note of thg that had been ed agast hi!”
  ”i don39t believe this,” said herione ”you39re actually defendg—
  ”i39 not defendg what i did!” said harry ickly ”i wish 1 hadn39t done it, and not jt becae i39ve got about a dozen detentions you know i wouldn39t39ve ed a spell like that, not even on alfoy, but you can39t b the prce, he hadn39t written 39try this out, it39s really good39 — he was jt akg notes for hiself, wasn39t he, not for anyone else  ”
  ”are you tellg ,” said herione, ”that you39re gog to go back — ?”
  ”and t the book? yeah, i a,” said harry forcefully ”listen, without the prce i39d never have won the felix felicis i39d never have known how to save ron fro poing, i39d never have —”
  ”— got a reputation for potions
  illiance you don39t deserve,” said herione nastily
  ”give it a rest, herione!” said gny, and harry was aazed, grateful, he looked up ”by the und of it, alfoy was tryg to e an unfivable curse, you should be gd harry had thg good up his sleeve!”
  ”well, of urse i39 gd harry wasn39t cursed!” said herione, clearly stung ”but you can39t call that sectusepra spell good, gny, look where it39s nded hi! and i39d have thought, seeg what this has done to your chances the atch —”
  ”oh, don39t start actg as though you understand idditch,” snapped gny, ”you39ll only ebarrass yourself”
  harry and ron stared: herione and gny, who had always got on tother very well, were now sittg with their ars folded, grg opposite directions ron looked nervoly at harry, then snatched up a book at rando and hid behd it harry, however,
  little though he knew he deserved it, felt unbelievably cheerful all of a sudden, even though none of the spoke aga for the rest of the eveng
  his lightheartedness was short-lived