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t a hand and felt fang39s reassurgly war and alive body iverg beside hi
”i39 all right,” panted harry ”are you?” ”39urse i a take ore39n that ter fish ”
hagrid put his hands under harry39s ars and raised hi up with such force that harry39s feet ontarily left the ground before hagrid set hi upright aga he uld see blood tricklg down hagrid39s cheek fro a deep cut under one eye, which was swellg rapidly
”we should put out your hoe,” said harry, ”the char39s 39aguanti39 ”
”knew it was suat like that,” ubled hagrid, and he raised a solderg pk, flowery u
el and said, ”aguanti!”
a jet of water flew out of the u
el tip harry raised his wand ar, which felt like lead, and urured ”aguanti” too: tother, he and hagrid poured water on the hoe until the st f was extguished
”s39not too bad,” said hagrid hopefully a few utes ter, lookg at the sokg wreck ”noth dubledore won39 be able to put righ39 ”
harry felt a searg pa his stoach at the und of the na the silence and the stillness, horror rose side hi
”hagrid ”
”i was bd39 up a uple o39 bowtruckle legs when i heard 39e g,” said hagrid sadly, still starg at his wrecked cab ”they39ll b burnt ter igs, poor little thgs ”
”hagrid ”
”but what happened, harry? i j39 saw the death eaters run-n down fro the castle, but what the ruddy hell was snape do39 with 39e? where39s he gone - was he chas39 the?”
”he ” harry cleared his throat it was dry fro panic and the soke ”hagrid, he killed ”
”killed?” said hagrid loudly, starg down at harry ”snape killed? what39re yeh on abou39, harry?”
”dubledore,” said harry ”snape killed dubledore”
hagrid siply looked at hi, the little of his face that uld be seen pletely bnk, unprehendg
”dubledore wha, harry?”
”he39s dead snape killed hi”
”don39 say that,” said hagrid roughly ”snape kill dubledore - don39 be stupid, harry wha39s ade yeh say tha39?”
”i saw it happen” , ,
”yeh uldn39 have”
”i saw it, hagrid”
hagrid shook his head his expression was disbelievg but sypathetic, and harry knew that hagrid thought he had staed a blow to the head, that he was nfed, perhaps by the aftereffects of a jx
”what ta happened was, dubledore ta told snape ter go with the death eaters,” hagrid said nfidently ”i suppose he39s gotta keep his ver look, let39s t yeh back up ter the school e on, harry ”
harry did not attept to argue or exp he was still shakg unntrolbly hagrid would fd out on enough, too on as they directed their steps back toward the castle, harry saw that any of its dows were lit now he uld iage, clearly, the scenes side as people oved fro roo to roo, tellg each other that death eaters had got , that the ark was shg over hogwarts, that body t have been killed
the oak front doors stood open ahead of the, light floodg out onto the drive and the wn slowly, uncertaly, dressg-gowned people were creepg down the steps, lookg around nervoly for sign of the death eaters who had fled to the night harry39s eyes, however, were fixed upon the ground at the foot of the tallest tower he iaged that he uld see a bck, huddled ass lyg the grass there, though he was really too far away to see anythg of the rt even as he stared wordlessly at the pce where he thought
dubledore39s body t lie, however, he saw people begng to ove toward it
”what39re they all look39 at?” said hagrid, as he and harry approached the castle front, fang keepg as close as he uld to their ankles ”wha39s that ly39 on the grass?” hagrid added sharply, headg now toward the foot of the astronoy tower, where a sall crowd was ngregatg ”see it, harry? right at the foot of the tower? under where the ark bliy yeh don39 thk one got thrown - ?”
hagrid fell silent, the thought apparently too horrible to express aloud harry walked alongside hi, feelg the aches and pas his face and his legs where the vario hexes of the st half hour had hit hi, though an oddly detached way, as though body near hi was sufferg the what was real and escapable was the awful press