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  g feelg his chest
  he and hagrid oved, drealike, through the ururg crowd to the very front, where the dubstruck students and teachers had left a gap
  harry heard hagrid39s oan of pa and shock, but he did not s he walked slowly forward until he reached the pce where dubledore y and crouched down beside hi he had known there was no hope fro the ont that the full body-bd curse dubledore had pced upon hi lifted, known that it uld have happened only becae its caster was dead, but there was still no preparation for seeg hi here, spread-eagled,
  oken: the greatest wizard harry had ever, or would ever, et
  dubledore39s eyes were closed but for the stran angle of his ars and legs, he ight have been sleepg harry reached out, straightened the half-oon spectacles upon the crooked nose, and wiped a trickle of blood fro the outh with his own sleeve then he gazed down at the wise old face and tried to a
  b the enoro and prehensible truth: that never aga would dubledore speak to hi, never aga uld he help-----
  the crowd urured behd harry after what seed like a long ti, he beca aware that he was kneelg upon thg hard and looked down
  the locket they had anad to steal any hours before had fallen out of dubledore39s pocket it had opened, perhaps due to the force with which it hit the ground and although he uld not feel ore shock or horror or sadness than he felt already, harry knew, as he picked it up, that there was thg wrong-----
  he turned the locket over his hands this was neither as r as the locket he rebered seeg the pensieve, nor were there any arkgs upon it, no sign of the ornate s that was supposed to be slythers ark oreover, there was nothg side but for a scrap of folded parchnt wedd tightly to the pce where a portrait should have been
  autoatically, without really thkg about what he was dog, harry pulled out the fragnt of parchnt, opened it, and read by the light of the any wands that had now been lit behd hi:
  to the dark lord
  i now i will be dead long before you read this but i want you to know that it was i who divered your secret i have stolen the real horcrux and tend to destroy it as on as i can
  i face death the hope that when you et your atch you will be ortal once ore
  rab
  harry neither knew nor cared what the ssa ant only one thg attered: this was not a horcrux dubledore had weakened hiself by drkg that terrible potion for nothg harry crupled the parchnt his hand, and his eyes burned with tears as behd hi fang began to howl
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  c 39re, harry ”
  ”no”
  ”yeh can39 stay here, harry e on, now” ”no”
  he did not want to leave dubledores side, he did not want to ove anywhere hagrid39s hand on his shoulder was treblg then another voice said, ”harry, e on”
  a uch saller and warr hand had enclosed his and was pullg hi uard he obeyed its pressure without really thkg about it only as he walked bldly back through the crowd did he realize, fro a trace of flowery scent on the air, that it was gny who was leadg hi back to the castle prehensible voices battered hi, bs and shouts and wails stabbed the night, but harry and gny walked on, back up the steps to the entrance hall faces swa on the eds of harry39s vision, people were peerg at hi, whisperg, wonderg, and gryffdor rubies glistened on the floor like drops of blood as they ade their way toward the arble staircase
  ”we39re gog to the hospital g,” said gny
  ”i39 not hurt,” said harry !
  ”it39s cgonagalls orders,” said gny ”everyone39s up there, ron and herione and p and everyone -”
  fear stirred harry39s chest aga: he had fotten the ert figures he had left behd
  ”gny, who else is dead?”
  ”don39t worry, none of ”
  ”but the dark ark - alfoy said he stepped over a body -”
  ”he stepped over bill, but its all right, he39s alive”
  there was thg her voice, however, that harry knew boded ill
  ”are you sure?”
  ”of urse i39 sure  he39s a - a bit of a ss, that39s all greyback attacked hi ada pofrey says he won39t - won39t look the sa anyore  ”
  gny39s voice trebled a little
  ”we don39t really know what the aftereffects will be - i an, greyback beg a werewolf, but not transford at the ti”
  ”but the others  there were other bodies on the ground  ”
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