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  who had never seen it before, when a powder-be carria the size of a hoe, pulled by a dozen giant d palo-os, ca arg out of the sky the te afternoon before the funeral and nded on the ed of the forest harry watched fro a dow as a gigantic and hand olive-skned, bck-haired woan descended the carria steps and threw herself to the waitg hagrid39s ars anwhile a delegation of istry officials, cdg the ister for agic hiself, was beg aoodated with the castle harry was dilintly avoidg ntact with any of the he
  was sure that, oner or ter, he would be asked aga to aount for dubledore39s st excursion fro hogwarts
  harry, ron, herione and gny were spendg all of their ti tother the beautiful weather seed to ock the harry uld iage how it would have been if durnbledore had not died, and they had had this ti tother at the very end of the year, gny39s exaations fished, the pressure of howork lifted and hour by hour, he put off sayg the thg that he knew he t say, dog what he knew it was right to do, becae it was too hard to fo his best urce of fort
  they visited the hospital g ice a day: neville had been dischard, but bill reaed under ada pofrey39s care his scars were as bad as ever truth, he now bore a distct resebnce to ad-eye oody, though thankfully with both eyes and legs, but pernality he seed ji the sa as ever all that appeared to have chand was that he now had a great likg for very rare steaks
  39 eet ees cky 39e is arryg ,39 said fleur happily, ppg up bill39s pillows, 39becae ze
  itish overok their at, i 39ave always said this39
  39i suppose i39 jt gog to have to aept that he really is gog to arry her,39 sighed gny ter that eveng, as she, harry, ron and herione sat beside the open dow of the gryffdor on roo, lookg out over the ilit grounds,
  39she39s not that bad,39 said harry 39ugly, though,39 he added hastily, as gny raised her eye
  ows, and she let out a rectant le
  39well, i suppose if u can stand it, 1 can39
  39anyone else we know died?39 ron asked herione, who was perg the eveng prophet
  herione ced at the forced toughness his voice
  39no,39 she said reprovgly, foldg up ihe newspaper 39they39re still lookg for snape, but no sign 39
  39of urse there isn39t,39 said harry, who beca angry every li this subject cropped up they won39t fd snape till they fd voldeort, and seeg as they39ve never anad to do that all this ti 39
  39i39 gog to go to bed,39 yawned gny 39i haven39t been sleepg thai well sce well i uld do with sleep39
  she kissed harry ron looked away potedly, waved al the other o and departed for the girls39 doritories the ont the door had closed behd her, herione leaned forwards towards harry with a ost herione-ish look on her face
  39harry, i found thg ou this orng, the li
  ary ,39
  39rab?39 said harry, sillg up straight
  he did not feel the way he had often felt before, excited, curio, burng to t to the botto of a ystery he siply knew that the task of disverg the truth about the real horcrux had to be pleted before he uld ove a little further along the dark and dg path stretchg ahead of hi, the path that he and dubledore had set out upon tother, and which he now knew he would have to journey alone there ight still be as any as four horcruxes out there where and each would need to be found and eli-ated before there was even a possibility that voldeort uld be killed he kept recitg their nas to hiself, as though by listg the he uld
  g the with reach: 39the locket , the cup the snake thg of gryffdor39s or ravencw39s the locket the cup the snake thg of gryffdor39s or ravencw39s 39
  this antra seed to pulse through harry39s d as he
  fell asleep at night, and his dreas were thick with cups, lockets and ysterio objects that he uld not ite reach, though dubledore helpfully offered harry a rope dder that turned to snakes the ont he began to clib
  he had shown herione the note side the locket the orng after dubledore39s death, and although she had not idiately regnised the itials as belongg to obscure wizard about who she had been readg, she had sce been rhg off to the li
  ary a little ore often than was strictly necessary for body who had no howork to do
  39no,39 she said sadly, 39i39ve b