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  ont rows, his expression iserable, irlg his green bowler hat as ual harry next regnised rita skeeter, who, he was furi-ated to see, had a notebook ctched her red-takd hand and then, with a worse jolt of fury, dolores u
  id, an unnvcg expression of grief upon her toadlike face, a bck velvet bow set a her iron-loured curls at the sight of the centaur firenze, who was standg like a sentel near the water39s ed, she gave a start and scurried hastily to a seat a good distance away
  the staff were seated at st harry uld see scriour lookg grave and dignified the front row with profesr cgonagall he wondered whether scriour or any of these iportant people were really rry that dubledore wasand he fot his dislike of the istry lookg around for the urce of it he was not the only one: any heads were turng, searchg, a little ard
  39 there,39 whispered gny harry39s ear
  and he saw the the clear green sunlit water, ches below the surface, redg hi horribly of the feri a chor of rpeople sgg a stran ngua he did not understand, their pallid faces ripplg, their purplish hair flog all around the the ic ade the hair on harry39s neck stand up and yet it was not unpleasant it spoke very clearly of loss and of despair as he looked down to the wild faces of the srs he had the feelg that they, at least, were rry for dubledore39s passg then gny nudd hi aga and he looked round
  hagrid was walkg slowly up the aisle beeen the chairs he was cryg ite silently, his face gleag with tears, and his ars, wrapped purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what harry knew to be dubledore39s body a sharp pa rose harry39s throat at this sight: for a ont, the stran ic and the knowled that dubledore39s body was close seed to take all warth fro the day ron looked white and shocked tears were fallg thick and fast to both gny and herione39s ps
  they uld not see clearly what was happeng at the front hagrid seed to have pced the body carefully upon the table now he retreated down the aisle, blog his nose with loud trupetg noises that drew scandalised looks fro , cdg, harry saw, dolores u
  id but harry knew that dubledore would not have cared he tried to ake a friendly sture to hagrid as he passed, but hagrid39s eyes were swollen it was a wonder he uld see where he was gog harry gnced at the back row to which hagrid
  was headg and realised what was guidg hi, for there, dressed a jacket and troers each the size of a sall ar-ee, was the giant grawp, his great ugly boulder-like head bowed, docile, alost huan hagrid sat down next to his half-
  other and grawp palled hagrid hard on the head, that his chair legs sank to the ground harry had a wonder-ful ontary ur to ugh but then the ic sped and he turned to face the front aga
  a little tufty-haired an p bck robes had got to his feet and stood now front of dubledore39s body harry uld not hear what he was sayg odd words floated back to the over the hundreds of beads 39nobility of spirit39 39tel-lectual ntribution39 39greatness of heart39 it did not an very uch it had little to do with dubledore as harry had known hi he suddenly rebered dubledore39s idea of a few words: 39niit39, 39oddnt39, 39bbber39 and 39eak 1, and aga, had to suppress a gr what was the atter with hi?
  there was a ft spshg noise to his left and he saw that the rpeople had
  oken the surface to listen, too he rebered dubledore crouchg at the water39s ed o years ago, very close to where harry now sat, and nversg rish with the rchieftaess harry wondered where dubledore had learned rish there was uch he had never asked hi, uch he should have said
  and then, without warng, it swept over hi, the dreadful truth, ore pletely and undeniably than it had until now dubledore was dead, gone he ctched the ld locket his hand tightly that it hurt, but he uld not prevent hot tears spillg fro his eyes: he looked away fro gny and the others and stared out over the ke, towards the forest, as the little an bck droned on there was ovent aong the trees the centaurs had e to pay their respects, too they did not ove to the open but harry saw the
  standg ite still, half-hidden shadow, watchg the wiz-ards, their bows hangg at their sides and harry re-bered his first nightarish trip to the forest, the first ti he had ever enuntered the thg that was then voldeort, and how he had faced hi, and how he and dubledore had discsed fig