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  there were slyther taunts to be endured next day, not to ntion uch anr fro fellow gryffdors, who were ost unhappy that their capta had got hiself banned fro the fal atch of the sean by saturday orng, whatever he ight have told herione, harry would have gdly exchand all the felix felicis the world to be walkg down to the idditch pitch with ron, gny, and the others it was alost unbearable to turn away fro the ass of students streag out to the sunshe, all of the wearg rosettes and hats and
  andishg banners and scarves, to descend the stone steps to the dunons and walk until the distant unds of the crowd were ite obliterated, knog that he would not be able to hear a word of ntary or a cheer or groan
  ”ah, potter,” said snape, when harry had knocked on his door and entered the unpleasantly failiar office that snape, despite teachg floors above now, had not vacated it was as dily lit as ever and the sa sliy dead objects were spended lored potions all around the walls ooly, there were any b-webbed boxes piled on a table where harry was clearly supposed to sit they had an aura of tedio, hard, and potless work about the
  ”r filch has been lookg for one to clear out these old files,” said snape ftly ”they are the rerds of other hogwarts wrongdoers and their punishnts where the k has grown fat, or the cards have suffered daa fro ice, we would like you to py out the cris and punishnts afresh and, akg sure that they are alphabetical order, repce the the boxes you will not e agic”
  ”right, profesr,” said harry, with as uch ntept as he uld put to the st three sylbles
  ”i thought you uld start,” said snape, a alicio sile on his lips, ”with boxes one thoand and elve to one thoand and fifty-six you will fd failiar nas there, which should add terest to the task here, you see  ”
  he pulled out a card fro one of the ost boxes with a flourish and read, ”jas potter and siri bck apprehended g an illegal hex upon bertra au
  ey au
  eys head ice noral size double detention” snape sneered ”it t be such a fortg thg that, though they are gone, a rerd of their great achievents reas”
  harry felt the failiar boilg sensation the pit of his stoach bitg his tongue to prevent hiself retaliatg, he sat down front of the boxes and pulled one toward hi
  it was, as harry had anticipated, eless, borg work, punctuated as snape had clearly pnned with the regur jolt the stoach that ant he had jt read his father or siri39s nas, ually upled tother vario petty isdeeds, oasionally aopanied by those of re p and peter pettigrew and while he pied out all their vario offenses and punishnts, he wondered what was gog on outside, where the atch would have jt started  gny pyg seeker agast cho
  harry gnced aga and aga at the r clock tickg on the wall it seed to be ovg half as fast as a regur clock perhaps snape had bewitched it to go extra slowly? he uld not have been here for only half an hour an hour an hour and a half
  harry39s stoach started rublg when the clock showed half past elve snape, who had not spoken at all sce settg harry his task, fally looked up at ten past one
  ”i thk that will do,” he said ldly ”ark the pce you have reached you will ntue at ten o39clock next saturday” yes, sir
  harry stuffed a bent card to the box at rando and hurried out of the door before snape uld chan his d, racg back up the stone steps, strag his ears to hear a und fro the pitch, but all was iet it was over, then
  he hesitated outside the crowded great hall, then ran up the arble staircase whether gryffdor had won or lost, the tea ually cele
  ated or iserated their own on roo
  ”id agis?” he said tentatively to the fat dy, wonderg what he would fd side
  her expression was unreadable as she replied, ”you39ll see”
  and she swung forward
  a roar of cele
  ation erupted fro the hole behd her harry gaped as people began to screa at the sight of hi several hands pulled hi to the roo
  ”we won!” yelled ron, boundg to sight and
  andishg the silver cup at harry ”we won! four hundred and fifty to a hundred and forty! we won!”
  harry looked around there was gny runng toward hi she had a hard, bzg look her face as she threw her ars around hi and without thkg, without pnng it, without worryg about the fact that fifty people were