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  ”certaly we uld,” said dubledore, spg suddenly that harry alost walked to hi ”why don39t you do it?”
  ”? oh  okay  ” harry had not expected this, but cleared his throat and said loudly, wand aloft, ”aio horcrux!”
  with a noise like an explosion, thg very r and pale erupted out of the dark water enty feet away before harry uld see what it was, it had vanished aga with a crashg spsh that ade great, deep ripples on the irrored surface harry leapt backward shock and hit the wall his heart was still thunderg as he turned to dubledore
  ”what was that?”
  ”thg, i thk, that is ready to respond should we attept to seize the horcrux”
  harry looked back at the water the surface of the ke was once ore shg bck gss: the ripples had vanished unnaturally fast harry39s heart, however, was still poundg
  ”did you thk that would happen, sir?”
  ”i thought thg would happen if we ade an obvio at-tept to t our hands on the horcrux that was a very good idea, harry uch the siplest way of fdg out what we are facg”
  ”but we don39t know what the thg was,” said harry, lookg at the sisterly sooth water
  ”what the thgs are, you an,” said dubledore ”i doubt very uch that there is only one of the shall we walk on?”
  ”profesr?”
  ”yes, harry?”
  ”do you thk we39re gog to have to go to the ke?”
  ”to it? only if we are very unfortunate”
  ”you don39t thk the horcrux is at the botto?”
  ”oh no i thk the horcrux is the iddle” and dubledore poted toward the isty green light the center of the ke
  ” we39re gog to have to cross the ke to t to it?”
  ”yes, i thk ” harry did not say anythg his thoughts were all of water on-sters, of giant serpents, of deons, kelpies, and sprites
  ”aha,” said dubledore, and he sped aga this ti, harry really did walk to hi for a ont he pled on the ed of the dark water, and dubledore39s unjured hand closed tightly around his upper ar, pullg hi back ” rry, harry, i should have given warng stand back agast the wall, please i thk i have found the pce”
  harry had no idea what dubledore ant this patch of dark bank was exactly like every other bit as far as he uld tell, but dubledore seed to have detected thg special about it this ti he was runng his hand, not over the rocky wall, but t hrough the th air, as though expectg to fd and grip -thg visible
  ”oho,” said dubledore happily, sends ter his hand had closed idair upon thg harry uld not see duble-dore oved closer to the water harry watched nervoly as the tips of dubledore39s buckled shoes found the utost ed of the rock ri keepg his hand clenched idair, dubledore raised his wand with the other and tapped his fist with the pot
  idiately a thick ppery green cha appeared out of th air, extendg fro the depths of the water to dubledore39s clenched hand dubledore tapped the cha, which began to slide through his fist like a snake, ilg itself on the ground with a clkg und that echoed noisily off the rocky walls, pullg thg fro the depths of the bck water harry gasped as the ghostly prow of a ty boat
  oke the surface, glog as green as the cha, and floated, with barely a ripple, toward the pce on the bank where harry and dubledore stood
  ”how did you know that was there?” harry asked astonish-nt
  ”agic always leaves traces,” said dubledore, as the boat hit the bank with a ntle bup, ”tis very distctive traces i taught to riddle i know his style”
  ”is is this boat safe?”
  ”oh yes, i thk voldeort needed to create a ans to cross the ke without attractg the wrath of those creatures he had pced with it case he ever wanted to visit or reove his horcrux”
  ” the thgs the water won39t do anythg to if we cross voldeort39s boat?”
  ”i thk we t resign ourselves to the fact that they will, at pot, realize we are not lord voldeort th far, however, we have done well they have allowed to raise the boat”
  ”but why have they let ?” asked harry, who uld not shake off the vision of tentacles risg out of the dark water the ont they were out of sight of the bank
  ”voldeort would have been reanably nfident that none but a very great wizar