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  bleak, harsh view, the sea and the rock unrelieved by any tree or sweep of grass or sand
  ”what do you thk?” asked dubledore he ight have been askg harry39s opion on whether it was a good site for a piic
  ”they
  ought the kids fro the orphana here?” asked harry, who uld not iage a less zy spot for a day trip
  ”not here, precisely,” said dubledore ”there is a vil of rts about halfway along the cliffs behd i believe the orphans were taken there for a little sea air and a view of the waves no, i thk it was only ever to riddle and his youthful victis who visited this spot no le uld reach this rock unless they were unonly good ountaeers, and boats cannot approach the cliffs, the waters around the are too danro i iage that riddle clibed down agic would have served better than ropes and he
  ought o sall children with hi, probably for the pleasure of terrorizg the i thk the journey alone would have done it, don39t you?”
  harry looked up at the cliff aga and felt goose bups
  ”but his fal destation — and ours — lies a little farther on e”
  dubledore beckoned harry to the very ed of the rock where a series of ed niches ade footholds leadg down to boulders that y half-su
  d water and closer to the cliff it was a treachero descent and dubledore, hapered slightly by his withered hand, oved slowly the lower rocks were slippery with seawater harry uld feel flecks of ld salt spray hittg his face ”os,” said dubledore, as he reached the boulder closest to the cliff face a thoand flecks of golden light sparkled upon the dark surface of the water a few feet below where he crouched the bck wall of rock beside hi was ilated too ”you see?” said dubledore ietly, holdg his wand a little higher harry saw a fissure the cliff to which dark water was swirlg ”you will not object to ttg a little wet?”
  ”no,” said harry
  ”then take off your visibility cloak — there is no need for it now — and let take the pn,” and with the sudden agility of a uch younr an, duble-dore slid fro the boulder, nded the sea, and began to swi, with a perfect
  eaststroke, toward the dark slit the rock face, his lit wand held his teeth harry pulled off his cloak, stuffed it to his pocket, and followed the water was icy harry39s ed clothes billowed around hi and weighed hi down takg deep
  eaths that filled his nostrils with the tang of salt and seaweed, he struck out for the shirg, shrkg light now ovg deeper to the cliff the fissure on opened to a dark tunnel that harry uld tell would be filled with water at high tide the sliy walls were barely three feet apart and glired like wet tar the passg light of dubledore39s wand a little way , the passaway curved to the left, and harry saw that it extended far to the cliff he ntued to swi dubledore39s wake, the tips of his benubed frs
  hg the rough, wet rock
  then he saw dubledore risg out of the water ahead, his sil-ver hair and dark robes gleag when harry reached the spot he found steps that led to a r cave he cbered up the, water streag fro his akg clothes, and erd, shiverg unntrolbly, to the still and freezg air
  dubledore was standg the iddle of the cave, his wand held high as he turned slowly on the spot, exag the walls and ceilg
  ”yes, this is the pce,” said dubledore
  ”how can you tell?” harry spoke a whisper
  ”it has known agic,” said dubledore siply harry uld not tell whether the shivers he was experiencg were due to his spe-deep ldness or to the sa awareness of
  enchantnts he watched as dubledore ntued to revolve on the spot, evidently ncentratg on thgs harry uld not see ”this is rely the antechaber, the entrance hall,” said dubledore after a ont or o ”we need to perate the ner pce  now it is lord voldeort39s obstacles that stand our way, rather than those nature ade  ”
  dubledore approached the wall of the cave and caressed it with his bckened frtips, ururg words a stran tongue that harry did not understand ice dubledore walked right around the cave, touchg as uch of the rough rock as he uld, oasionally pag, runng his frs backward and for-ward over a particur spot, until fally he sped, his hand pressed ft agast the wall ”here,” he said ”we go on through here the entrance is n-cealed” harry did not ask how dubledore knew he had never seen a wizard work thgs out like this, siply by lookg