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otno other headaster or headistress has ever been -”
”no other headaster or headistress ever gave ore to this school,” growled hagrid
”hogwarts should be dubledore39s fal restg pce,” said profesr fliick
”abtely,” said profesr sprout
”and that case,” said harry, ”you shouldn39t send the students ho until the jfuneral39s over they39ll want to say -”
the st word caught his throat, but profesr sprout pleted the sentence for hi ”good-bye”
”well said,” seaked profesr fliick ”well said deed! our students should pay tribute, it is fittg we can arran transport ho afterward”
”sended,” barked profesr sprout ]
”i suppose yes ” said sghorn a rather agitated voice, while hagrid let out a strangled b of assent
”he39s g,” said profesr cgonagall suddenly, gazg down to the grounds ”the ister and by the looks of it he39s
ought a delegation ”
”can i leave, profesr?” said harry at once
he had no desire at all to see, or be terrogated by, ruf scriour tonight
”you ay,” said profesr cgonagall ”and ickly”
she strode toward the door and held it open for hi he sped down the spiral staircase and off along the deserted rridor he-had left his visibility cloak at the of the astronoy tower, but it did not atter there was nobody the rridors to see hi pass, not even filch, rs norris, or peeves he did not et another ul until he turned to the passa leadg to the gryffdor on roo
”is it true?” whispered the fat dy as he approached her ”it is really true? dubledore - dead?”
”yes,” said harry
she let out a wail and, without waitg for the password, swung forward to adit hi
as harry had spected it would be, the on roo was ja-packed the roo fell silent as he clibed through the portrait hole he saw dean and sea sittg a group nearby: this ant that the doritory t be epty, or nearly without speakg to anybody, without akg eye ntact at all, harry walked straight across the roo and through the door to the boys39 doritories
as he had hoped, ron was waitg for hi, still fully dressed, sittg on his bed harry sat down on his own four-poster and for a ont, they siply stared at each other
”they39re talkg about closg the school,” said harry
”p said they would,” said ron
there was a pae
”?” said ron a very low voice, as though he thought the furniture ight be listeng ”did you fd one? did you t it? a - a horcrux?”
harry shook his head all that had taken pce around that bck ke seed like an old nightare now had it really happened, and only hours ago?
”you didn39t t it?” said ron, lookg crestfallen ”it wasn39t there?”
”no,” said harry ”one had already taken it and left a fake its pce”
”already taken - ?”
wordlessly, harry pulled the fake locket fro his pocket, opened it, and passed it to ron the full story uld wait it did not atter tonight nothg attered except the end, the end of their potless adventure, the end of dubledore39s life
”rab,” whispered ron, ”but who was that?”
”dunno,” said harry, lyg back on his bed fully clothed and starg bnkly uards he felt no curiosity at all about rab: he doubted that he would ever feel curio aga as he y there, he beca aware suddenly that the grounds were silent fawkes had sped sgg and he knew, without knog how he knew it, that ilie phoenix had gone, had left hogwarts for good, jt as dubledore had left the school, had left the world had left harry
chapter 30: the white tob
all lesns were spended, all exaations postponed students were hurried away fro hogwarts by their parents over the next uple of days - the patil s were gone before
eakfast on the orng follog dubledore39s death and zacharias sith was esrted fro the castle by his haughty-lookg father sea fnigan, on the other hand, refed pot-bnk to aopany his other ho they had a shoutg atch the entrance hall which was relved when she agreed that he uld rea behd for the funeral she had difficulty fdg a bed hogsade, sea told harry and ron, for wizards and witches were pourg to the vil, preparg to pay their st respects to durnbledore
excitent was caed aong the younr students,