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  thk ?39 profesr trewney seed to nsider the atter for a ont, but harry uld tell that she liked the idea of retellg her little adventure
  39i39 gog to see hi right now,39 said harry 39i39ve got a etg with hi we uld go tother39
  39oh, well, that case,39 said profesr trewney with a sile she bent down, soped up her sherry bottles and duped the uncereonioly a r be and white vase standg a nearby niche
  39i iss havg you y csses, harry,39 she said ulfully, as they set off tother 39you were never uch of a seer but you were a wonderful object39
  harry did not reply he had loathed beg the object of profesr trewney39s ntual predictions of doo
  39i a afraid,39 she went on, 39that the nag - i39 rry, the centaur - knows nothg of cartoancy i asked hi - one seer to another - had he not, too, sensed the distant vi
  a-tions of g catastrophe? but he seed to fd alost ical yes, ical!39
  her voice rose rather hysterically and harry caught a powerful whiff of sherry even though the bottles had been left behd
  39perhaps the horse has heard people say that i have not herited y great-great-grandother39s gift those ruours have been bandied about by the jealo for years you know what i say to such people, harry? would dubledore have let teach at this great school, put uch trt  all these years, had i not proved yself to hi?39
  harry ubled thg distct
  39i well reber y first terview with dubledore,39 went on profesr trewney, throaty tones 39he was deeply ipressed, of urse, deeply ipressed i was stayg at the hog39s head, which i do not advise, cidentally - bed bugs, dear boy - but funds were low dubledore did the urtesy of callg upon  y roo at the n he estioned  i t nfess that, at first, i thought he seed ill-disposed towards divation and i reber i was startg to feel a little odd, i had not eaten uch that day but then 39
  and now harry was payg attention properly for the first ti, for he knew what had happened then: profesr trewney had ade the prophecy that had altered the urse of his whole life, the prophecy about hi and voldeort
  39 but then we were rudely terrupted by sever snape!39
  39what?39
  39yes, there was a otion outside the door and it flew open, and there was that rather unuth baran standg with snape, who was wafflg about havg e the wrong way up the stairs, although i39 afraid that i yself rather thought he had been apprehended eavesdroppg on y terview with dubledore - you see, he hiself was seekg a job at the ti, and no doubt hoped to pick up tips! well, after that, you know, dubledore seed uch ore dis-posed to give a job, and i uld not help thkg, harry, that it was becae he appreciated the stark ntrast beeen y own unassug anners and iet talent, pared to the phg, thrtg young an who was prepared to listen at keyholes - harry, dear?39
  she looked back over her shoulder, havg only jt real-ised that harry was no lonr with her he had sped walkg and they were now ten feet fro each other
  39harry?39 she repeated uncertaly
  perhaps his face was white, to ake her look ncerned and frightened harry was standg stock-still as waves of shock crashed over hi, wave after wave, obliteratg every-thg except the ration that had been kept fro hi for long
  it was snape who had overheard the prophecy it was snape who had carried the news of the prophecy to voldeort snape and peter pettigrew tother had sent voldeort hunt-g after lily and jas and their n
  nothg else attered to harry jt now
  39harry?39 said profesr trewney aga 39harry - i thought we were gog to see the headaster tother?39
  39you stay here,39 said harry through nub lips
  39but, dear i was gog to tell hi how i was assaulted the roo of-39
  39you stay here!39 harry repeated angrily
  she looked ard as he ran past her, round the rner to dubledore39s rridor, where the lone gargoyle stood sentry harry shouted the password at the gargoyle and ran up the ovg spiral staircase three steps at a ti he did not knock upon dubledore39s door, he hared and the cal voice answered 39enter39 after harry had already fng hiself to the roo
  fawkes the phoenix looked round, his
  ight bck eyes gleag with reflected gold fro the sunset beyond the dow dubledore was standg at the dow look-g out at the grounds, a long, bck travellg cloak his ars