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He'd lost two points for Gryffindor
in his very first week -- why did Snape hate him so much?
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silver
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silver cigarette
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"Cheer up,"
said Ron, "Snape's always taking points off Fred and George.
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cigarette
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cigarette lighter
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Can I come
and meet Hagrid with you?"
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lighter
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lighter .
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At five to three they left the castle and made their way across the
grounds.
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.
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. He
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Hagrid lived in a small wooden house on the edge of the
forbidden forest.
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He
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He flicked
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A crossbow and a pair of galoshes were outside the
front door.
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flicked
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flicked it
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When Harry knocked they heard a frantic scrabbling from inside and
several booming barks.
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it
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it open
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Then Hagrid's voice rang out, saying, "Back, Fang
-- back."
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open
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open ,
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Hagrid's big, hairy face appeared in the crack as he pulled the door
open.
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,
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, held
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"Hang on," he said.
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held
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held it
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"Back, Fang."
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it
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it up
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He let them in, struggling to keep a hold on the collar of an enormous
black boarhound.
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up
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up in
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There was only one room inside.
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in
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in the
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Hams and pheasants were hanging from the
ceiling, a copper kettle was boiling on the open fire, and in the corner
stood a massive bed with a patchwork quilt over it.
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the
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the air
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"Make yerselves at home," said Hagrid, letting go of Fang, who bounded
straight at Ron and started licking his ears.
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air
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air ,
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Like Hagrid, Fang was
clearly not as fierce as he looked.
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,
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, and
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"This is Ron," Harry told Hagrid, who was pouring boiling water into a
large teapot and putting rock cakes onto a plate.
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and
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and clicked
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"Another Weasley, eh?"
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clicked
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clicked it
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said Hagrid, glancing at Ron's freckles.
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it
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it .
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I spent
half me life chasin' yer twin brothers away from the forest."
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.
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. The
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The rock cakes were shapeless lumps with raisins that almost broke their
teeth, but Harry and Ron pretended to be enjoying them as they told
Hagrid all about their first -lessons.
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The
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The nearest
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Fang rested his head on Harry's
knee and drooled all over his robes.
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nearest
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nearest street
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Harry and Ron were delighted to hear Hagrid call Fitch "that old git."
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street
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street lamp
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"An' as fer that cat, Mrs. Norris, I'd like ter introduce her to Fang
sometime.
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lamp
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lamp went
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D'yeh know, every time I go up ter the school, she follows me
everywhere?
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went
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went out
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Can't get rid of her -- Fitch puts her up to it."
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out
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out with
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Harry told Hagrid about Snape's lesson.
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with
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with a
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Hagrid, like Ron, told Harry not
to worry about it, that Snape liked hardly any of the students.
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a
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a little
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"But he seemed to really hate me."
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little
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little pop
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"Rubbish!"
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pop
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pop .
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said Hagrid.
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.
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. He
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"Why should he?"
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He
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He clicked
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Yet Harry couldn't help thinking that Hagrid didn't quite meet his eyes
when he said that.
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clicked
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clicked it
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"How's yer brother Charlie?"
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it
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it again
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Hagrid asked Ron.
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again
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again --
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"I liked him a lot --
great with animals."
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--
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-- the
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Harry wondered if Hagrid had changed the subject on purpose.
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the
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the next
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While Ron
told Hagrid all about Charlie's work with dragons, Harry picked up a
piece of paper that was lying on the table under the tea cozy.
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next
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next lamp
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It was a
cutting from the Daily Prophet:
GRINGOTTS BREAK-IN LATEST
Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July,
widely believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches unknown.
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lamp
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lamp flickered
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Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken.
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flickered
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flickered into
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The vault
that was searched had in fact been emptied the same day.
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into
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into darkness
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"But we're not telling you what was in there, so keep your noses out if
you know what's good for you," said a Gringotts spokesgoblin this
afternoon.
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darkness
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darkness .
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Harry remembered Ron telling him on the train that someone had tried to
rob Gringotts, but Ron hadn't mentioned the date.
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.
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. Twelve
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"Hagrid!"
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Twelve
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Twelve times
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said Harry, "that Gringotts break-in happened on my birthday!
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times
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times he
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It might've been happening while we were there!"
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he
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he clicked
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There was no doubt about it, Hagrid definitely didn't meet Harry's eyes
this time.
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clicked
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clicked the
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He grunted and offered him another rock cake.
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the
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the Put-Outer
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Harry read the
story again.
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Put-Outer
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Put-Outer ,
|
The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied
earlier that same day.
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,
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, until
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Hagrid had emptied vault seven hundred and
thirteen, if you could call it emptying, taking out that grubby little
package.
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until
|
until the
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Had that been what the thieves were looking for?
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the
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the only
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As Harry and Ron walked back to the castle for dinner, their pockets
weighed down with rock cakes they'd been too polite to refuse, Harry
thought that none of the lessons he'd had so far had given him as much
to think about as tea with Hagrid.
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only
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only lights
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Had Hagrid collected that package
just in time?
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lights
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lights left
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Where was it now?
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left
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left on
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And did Hagrid know something about
Snape that he didn't want to tell Harry?
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on
|
on the
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CHAPTER NINE
THE MIDNIGHT DUEL
Harry had never believed he would meet a boy he hated more than Dudley,
but that was before he met Draco Malfoy.
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the
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the whole
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Still, first-year
Gryffindors only had Potions with the Slytherins, so they didn't have to
put up with Malfoy much.
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whole
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whole street
|
Or at least, they didn't until they spotted a
notice pinned up in the Gryffindor common room that made them all groan.
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street
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street were
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Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday -- and Gryffindor and
Slytherin would be learning together.
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were
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were two
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"Typical," said Harry darkly.
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two
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two tiny
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"Just what I always wanted.
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tiny
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tiny pinpricks
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To make a fool
of myself on a broomstick in front of Malfoy."
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pinpricks
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pinpricks in
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He had been looking forward to learning to fly more than anything else.
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in
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in the
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"You don't know that you'll make a fool of yourself," said Ron
reasonably.
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the
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the distance
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"Anyway, I know Malfoy's always going on about how good he
is at Quidditch, but I bet that's all talk."
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distance
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distance ,
|
Malfay certainly did talk about flying a lot.
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,
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, which
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He complained loudly about
first years never getting on the house Quidditch teams and told long,
boastful stories that always seemed to end with him narrowly escaping
Muggles in helicopters.
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which
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which were
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He wasn't the only one, though: the way Seamus
Finnigan told it, he'd spent most of his childhood zooming around the
countryside on his broomstick.
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were
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were the
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Even Ron would tell anyone who'd listen
about the time he'd almost hit a hang glider on Charlie's old broom.
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the
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the eyes
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Everyone from wizarding families talked about Quidditch constantly.
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eyes
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eyes of
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Ron
had already had a big argument with Dean Thomas, who shared their
dormitory, about soccer.
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of
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of the
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Ron couldn't see what was exciting about a game
with only one ball where no one was allowed to fly.
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the
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the cat
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Harry had caught Ron
prodding Dean's poster of West Ham soccer team, trying to make the
players move.
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cat
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cat watching
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Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his
grandmother had never let him near one.
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watching
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watching him
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Privately, Harry felt she'd had
good reason, because Neville managed to have an extraordinary number of
accidents even with both feet on the ground.
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him
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him .
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Hermione Granger was almost as nervous about flying as Neville was.
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.
|
. If
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This
was something you couldn't learn by heart out of a book -- not that she
hadn't tried.
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If
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If anyone
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At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with
flying tips she'd gotten out of a library book called Quidditch Through
the Ages.
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anyone
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anyone looked
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Neville was hanging on to her every word, desperate for
anything that might help him hang on to his broomstick later, but
everybody else was very pleased when Hermione's lecture was interrupted
by the arrival of the mail.
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looked
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looked out
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Harry hadn't had a single letter since Hagrid's note, something that
Malfoy had been quick to notice, of course.
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out
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out of
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Malfoy's eagle owl was
always bringing him packages of sweets from home, which he opened
gloatingly at the Slytherin table.
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of
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of their
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A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother.
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their
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their window
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He
opened it excitedly and showed them a glass ball the size of a large
marble, which seemed to be full of white smoke.
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window
|
window now
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"It's a Remembrall!"
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now
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now ,
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he explained.
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,
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, even
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"Gran knows I forget things -- this
tells you if there's something you've forgotten to do.
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even
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even beady-eyed
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Look, you hold it
tight like this and if it turns red -- oh..." His face fell, because the
Remembrall had suddenly glowed scarlet,
"You've forgotten something..."
Neville was trying to remember what he'd forgotten when Draco Malfoy,
who was passing the Gryffindor table, snatched the Remembrall out of his
hand.
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beady-eyed
|
beady-eyed Mrs.
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Harry and Ron jumped to their feet.
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Mrs.
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Mrs. Dursley
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They were half hoping for a reason
to fight Malfay, but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble
quicker than any teacher in the school, was there in a flash.
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Dursley
|
Dursley ,
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"What's going on?"
|
,
|
, they
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"Malfoy's got my Remembrall, Professor."
|
they
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they would
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Scowling, Malfoy quickly dropped the Remembrall back on the table.
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would
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would n't
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"Just looking," he said, and he sloped away with Crabbe and Goyle behind
him.
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n't
|
n't be
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At three-thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron, and the other Gryffindors
hurried down the front steps onto the grounds for their first flying
lesson.
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be
|
be able
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It was a clear, breezy day, and the grass rippled under their
feet as they marched down the sloping lawns toward a smooth, flat lawn
on the opposite side of the grounds to the forbidden forest, whose trees
were swaying darkly in the distance.
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able
|
able to
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The Slytherins were already there, and so were twenty broomsticks lying
in neat lines on the ground.
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to
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to see
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Harry had heard Fred and George Weasley
complain about the school brooms, saying that some of them started to
vibrate if you flew too high, or always flew slightly to the left.
|
see
|
see anything
|
Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived.
|
anything
|
anything that
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She had short, gray hair, and
yellow eyes like a hawk.
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that
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that was
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