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he muttered to Percy.
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and
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and very
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"Must be," said Percy, frowning at Dumbledore.
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very
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very old
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"It's odd, because he
usually gives us a reason why we're not allowed to go somewhere -- the
forest's full of dangerous beasts, everyone knows that.
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old
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old ,
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I do think he
might have told us prefects, at least."
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,
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, judging
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"And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!"
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judging
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judging by
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cried
Dumbledore.
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by
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by the
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Harry noticed that the other teachers' smiles had become
rather fixed.
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the
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the silver
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Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying to get a
fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose
high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words.
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silver
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silver of
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"Everyone pick their favorite tune," said Dumbledore, "and off we go!"
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of
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of his
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And the school bellowed:
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot.
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his
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his hair
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Everybody finished the song at different times.
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hair
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hair and
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At last, only the
Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
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and
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and beard
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Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they
had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest.
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beard
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beard ,
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"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes.
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,
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, which
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"A magic beyond all we do here!
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which
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which were
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And now, bedtime.
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were
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were both
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Off you trot!"
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both
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both long
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The Gryffindor first years followed Percy through the chattering crowds,
out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase.
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long
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long enough
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Harry's legs were
like lead again, but only because he was so tired and full of food.
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enough
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enough to
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He
was too sleepy even to be surprised that the people in the portraits
along the corridors whispered and pointed as they passed, or that twice
Percy led them through doorways hidden behind sliding panels and hanging
tapestries.
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to
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to tuck
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They climbed more staircases, yawning and dragging their
feet, and Harry was just wondering how much farther they had to go when
they came to a sudden halt.
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tuck
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tuck into
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A bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as
Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him.
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into
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into his
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"Peeves," Percy whispered to the first years.
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his
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his belt
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"A poltergeist."
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belt
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belt .
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He raised
his voice, "Peeves -- show yourself"
A loud, rude sound, like the air being let out of a balloon, answered.
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.
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. He
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"Do you want me to go to the Bloody Baron?"
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He
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He was
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There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide
mouth appeared, floating cross- legged in the air, clutching the walking
sticks.
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was
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was wearing
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"Oooooooh!"
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wearing
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wearing long
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he said, with an evil cackle.
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long
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long robes
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"Ickle Firsties!
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robes
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robes ,
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What fun!"
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,
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, a
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He swooped suddenly at them.
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a
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a purple
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They all ducked.
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purple
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purple cloak
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"Go away, Peeves, or the Baron'll hear about this, I mean it!"
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cloak
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cloak that
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barked
Percy.
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that
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that swept
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Peeves stuck out his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking sticks on
Neville's head.
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swept
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swept the
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They heard him zooming away, rattling coats of armor as
he passed.
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the
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the ground
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"You want to watch out for Peeves," said Percy, as they set off again.
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ground
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ground ,
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"The Bloody Baron's the only one who can control him, he won't even
listen to us prefects.
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,
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, and
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Here we are."
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and
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and high-heeled
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At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a
pink silk dress.
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high-heeled
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high-heeled ,
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"Password?"
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,
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, buckled
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she said.
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buckled
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buckled boots
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"Caput Draconis," said Percy, and the portrait
swung forward to reveal a round hole in the wall.
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boots
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boots .
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They all scrambled
through it -- Neville needed a leg up -- and found themselves in the
Gryffindor common room, a cozy, round room full of squashy armchairs.
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.
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. His
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Percy directed the girls through one door to their dormitory and the
boys through another.
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His
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His blue
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At the top of a spiral staircase -- they were
obviously in one of the towers -- they found their beds at last: five
four-posters hung with deep red, velvet curtains.
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blue
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blue eyes
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Their trunks had
already been brought up.
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eyes
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eyes were
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Too tired to talk much, they pulled on their
pajamas and fell into bed.
"
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were
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were light
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Great food, isn't it?"
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light
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light ,
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Ron muttered to Harry through the hangings.
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,
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, bright
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"Get off, Scabbers!
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bright
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bright ,
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He's chewing my sheets."
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,
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, and
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Harry was going to ask Ron if he'd had any of the treacle tart, but he
fell asleep almost at once.
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and
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and sparkling
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Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much, because he had a very strange
dream.
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sparkling
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sparkling behind
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He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking to
him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was
his destiny.
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behind
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behind half-moon
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Harry told the turban he didn't want to be in Slytherin; it
got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but it tightened
painfully -- and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he struggled with
it -then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, Snape, whose laugh
became high and cold -- there was a burst of green light and Harry woke,
sweating and shaking.
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half-moon
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half-moon spectacles
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He rolled over and fell asleep again, and when he woke next day, he
didn't remember the dream at all.
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spectacles
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spectacles and
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CHAPTER EIGHT
THE POTIONS MASTER
There, look."
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and
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and his
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"Where?"
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his
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his nose
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"Next to the tall kid with the red hair."
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nose
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nose was
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"Wearing the glasses?"
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was
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was very
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"Did you see his face?"
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very
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very long
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"Did you see his scar?"
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long
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long and
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Whispers followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory the next
day.
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and
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and crooked
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People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look
at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring.
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crooked
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crooked ,
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Harry wished they wouldn't, because he was trying to concentrate on
finding his way to classes.
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,
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, as
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There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide,
sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different
on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to
remember to jump.
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as
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as though
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Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you
asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors
that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending.
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though
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though it
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It
was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed
to move around a lot.
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it
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it had
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The people in the portraits kept going to visit
each other, and Harry was sure the coats of armor could walk.
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had
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had been
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The ghosts didn't help, either.
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been
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been broken
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It was always a nasty shock when one of
them glided suddenly through a door you were trying to open.
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broken
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broken at
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Nearly
Headless Nick was always happy to point new Gryffindors in the right
direction, but Peeves the Poltergeist was worth two locked doors and a
trick staircase if you met him when you were late for class.
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at
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at least
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He would
drop wastepaper baskets on your head, pull rugs from under your feet,
pelt you with bits of chalk, or sneak up behind you, invisible, grab
your nose, and screech, "GOT YOUR CONK!"
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least
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least twice
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Even worse than Peeves, if that was possible, was the caretaker, Argus
Filch.
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twice
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twice .
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Harry and Ron managed to get on the wrong side of him on their
very first morning.
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.
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. This
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Filch found them trying to force their way through a
door that unluckily turned out to be the entrance to the out-of-bounds
corridor on the third floor.
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This
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This man
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He wouldn't believe they were lost, was
sure they were trying to break into it on purpose, and was threatening
to lock them in the dungeons when they were rescued by Professor
Quirrell, who was passing.
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man
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man 's
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Filch owned a cat called Mrs. Norris, a scrawny, dust-colored creature
with bulging, lamp like eyes just like Filch's.
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's
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's name
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She patrolled the
corridors alone.
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name
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name was
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Break a rule in front of her, put just one toe out of
line, and she'd whisk off for Filch, who'd appear, wheezing, two seconds
later.
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was
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was Albus
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Filch knew the secret passageways of the school better than
anyone (except perhaps the Weasley twins) and could pop up as suddenly
as any of the ghosts.
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Albus
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Albus Dumbledore
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The students all hated him, and it was the dearest
ambition of many to give Mrs. Norris a good kick.
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Dumbledore
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Dumbledore .
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And then, once you had managed to find them, there were the classes
themselves.
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.
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. Albus
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There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out,
than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
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Albus
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Albus Dumbledore
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They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every
Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the
movements of the planets.
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Dumbledore
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Dumbledore did
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Three times a week they went out to the
greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little
witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of
all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for.
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did
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did n't
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Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only
one taught by a ghost.
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n't
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n't seem
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Professor Binns had been very old
indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got
up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him.
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seem
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seem to
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Binns droned on
and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the
Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.
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to
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to realize
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Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had
to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk.
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realize
|
realize that
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At the start of their
first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harry's name he
gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight.
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that
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that he
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Professor McGonagall was again different.
|
he
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he had
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Harry had been quite right to
think she wasn't a teacher to cross.
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had
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had just
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Strict and clever, she gave them a
talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class.
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just
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just arrived
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"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you
will learn at Hogwarts," she said.
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arrived
|
arrived in
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"Anyone messing around in my class
will leave and not come back.
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in
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in a
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You have been warned."
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a
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a street
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Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again.
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street
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street where
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