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Harry felt a thrill of something that was beyond excitement, more like fear. Now that he was so near, he wondered whether he wanted to see after all. Perhaps Hermione knew how he was feeling, because she reached for his hand and took the lead for the first time, pulling him forward. Halfway across the square, however, she stopped dead.

Harry was bursting to say that he'd rather live in an orphanage than with the Dursleys, but the thought of the Hogsmeade form stopped him. He forced his face into a painful smile.

Harry had been in here only once before, and he had been in very serious trouble then too. Snape had acquired a few more slimy horrible things in jars since last time, all standing on shelves behind his desk, glinting in the firelight and adding to the threatening atmosphere.

harder to reconcile than the two extremest opposites in creation.

had told them of before? Tell him that, tell him that.”

have a mutual interest, Bill—a mutual interest.”

had yet to come—the depressed dreams and nightmares I had—

hall door. The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences,

He had been hurrying along the new path for a few minutes, when he heard something in the path running parallel to his own that made him stop dead.