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ed up the crublg piece of paper and stared at the ovg photograph, yellowed with a ron leaned over for a look, too the picture showed a skny girl of around fifteen she was not pretty she looked siultaneoly cross and sullen, with heavy
ows and a long, pallid face under-neath the photograph was the caption: eileen prce, capta of the hogwarts gobstones tea
39?39 said harry, scanng the short news ite to which the picture belond it was a rather dull story about ter-school petitions
39her na was eileen prce prce, harry39
they looked at each other and harry realised what herione was tryg to say he burst out ughg
39no way39
39what?39
39you thk she was the half-blood ? oh, e on39
39well, why not? harry, there aren39t any real prces the wizardg world! it39s either a nickna, a ade-up title body39s given theselves, or it uld be their actual na, uldn39t it? no, listen! if, say, her father was a wizard
whose surna was ”prce”, and her other was a le, then that would ake her a ”half-blood prce”!39
39yeah, very nio, herione 39
39but it would! aybe she was proud of beg half a prce!39
39listen, herione, i can tell it39s not a girl i can jt tell39
the truth is that you don39t thk a girl would have been clever enough,39 said herione angrily
39how can i have hung round with you for five years and not thk girls are clever?39 said harry, stung by this 39it39s the way he writes i jt know the prce was a bloke, i can tell this girl hasn39t got anythg to do with it where did you t this, anyway?39
‘the li
ary,39 said herione, predictably there39s a whole llection of old prophets up there well, i39 gog to fd out ore about eileen prce if i can39
39enjoy yourself,39 said harry irritably
39i will,39 said herione 39and the first pce i39ll look,39 she shot at hi, as she reached the portrait hole, 39is rerds of old potions awards!39
harry swled after her for a ont, then ntued his nteption of the darkeng sky
39she39s jt never got over you outperforg her potions,39 said ron, returng to his py of one thoand agical herbs and fungi
39you don39t thk i39 ad, wantg that book back, do you?39
39urse not,39 said ron robtly 39he was a ni, the prce anyway without his bezoar tip 39 he drew his fr significantly across his own throat, 39i wouldn39t be here to discs it, would i? i an, i39 not sayg that spell you ed on alfoy was great -39
39nor a i,39 said harry ickly
39but he healed all right, didn39t he? back on his feet no ti39
39yeah,39 said harry this was perfectly true, although his n-science sird slightly all the sa thanks to snape 39
39you still got detention with snape this saturday?39 ron ntued
39yeah, and the saturday after that, and the saturday after that,39 sighed harry 39and he39s htg now that if i don39t t all the boxes done by the end of ter, we39ll carry on next year39
he was fdg these detentions particurly irk becae they cut to the already liited ti he uld have been spendg with gny deed, he had freently won-dered tely whether snape did not know this, for he was keepg harry ter and ter every ti, while akg poted asides about harry havg to iss the good weather and the varied opportunities it offered
harry was shaken fro these bitter reflections by the appearance at his side of jiy peakes, who was holdg out a scroll of parchnt
‘thanks, jiy hey, it39s fro dubledore!39 said harry excitedly, unrollg the parchnt and scanng it 39he wants to go to his office as ick as 1 can!39
they stared at each other
39bliy,39 whispered ron 39you don39t reckon he hasn39t found ?39
39better go and see, hadn39t i?39 said harry, jupg to his feet
he hurried out of the on roo and along the seventh floor as fast as he uld, passg nobody but peeves, who swooped past the opposite direction, throg bits of chalk at harry a route rt of way and cacklg loudly as he dodd harry39s defensive jx once peeves had vanished, there was silence the rridors with only fifteen utes left until curfew, ost people had already returned to their on roos
and then harry heard a screa and a crash he sped his tracks, listeng
39how - dare - you - aaaaargh!39
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