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Harry Potter Book 7, 2nd Chapter
In the second chapter of Harry Potter Book 7, Harry grapples with the aftermath of his struggles as he prepares for the challenges ahead. The chapter delves into his emotional turmoil and reflections ...
Harry Potter Book 7, 2nd Chapter
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So I have a two in memoriam.
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Harry was bleeding, clutching his right hand in his left and swearing under his breath.
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He showed her up on his bedroom door.
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There was a bunch of breaking, China.
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He had crotted on a cup of cold tea that had been sitting on the floor outside his bedroom
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door.
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What the...
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He lived around the learning of number four, private drive, was deserted.
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Possibly the cup of tea was done, lays out the idea of a clever, booby trap.
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Keeping his breathing hand elevated, Harry squealed the fragments of cup together with
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the other hand and threw them into the old reddy crown bench, just visible inside his room.
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They didn't turn across to the bathroom to run his finger under the tap.
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It was stupid, pointless, irritating beyond belief that he still had four days left of
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being unable to pull magic, very admitted to himself that this jack-carned finger would
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have defeated him.
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He never learned how to repair wounds and now he can't hit him to think of it, but
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in light of his immediate plans, this seemed to see his flow and his magical education,
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making a mental note to ask Hermione how it was done.
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He used a large water of toilet paper to mop off as much of the tea as he could before
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running into his bedroom and slamming the door behind him.
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Harry had spent the morning completely emptying his school trunk for the first time since
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he had packed it six years ago.
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At the start of the intervening school years, he numerally skimmed of the topmost three quarters
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of the contents and replaced or updated them, leaving a layer of general debris at the
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bottom, all clothes, desiccated beetles, single socks that no longer fitted, men's previously
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Harry had plowns his hand into this much, experienced a stabbing pain in the fourth finger
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of his right hand and thrown it to see a lot of blood.
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He proceeded little more cautiously, kneeling down beside the dragon, he grobbed around
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in the bottom and after receiving an old bag that flickered feet, leave it in support,
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set red degree and potter stinks.
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A crack didn't warn out sneakscope, but a gold lock inside which notes sign RAP had
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been hidden.
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He finally discovered the sharp edge that had done the damage.
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He recognized at once it was a two inch long fragment of the inch on mirror that is
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dead, Godfather, serious had given him.
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Harry had a side and fell cautiously around the trunk for the rest, but nothing more remained
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of his godfather's last gift except powdered glass, which clung to the deepest layer of
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debris like glittering grit.
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Harry sat on an examine the jackbees on which he had cut himself, seen nothing but his
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own bright eye, reflected back at him, then he plays a fragment of top of that morning's
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tale-profit which lay on red on the bed and attempted to the stem sun-absurge of bitter
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memories, the stabs of regret and of longing, the discovery of the broken red had occasion
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by attacking the rest of the rubbish in the trunk.
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It took another hour to empty it completely, throw away the useless items and sort the
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remaining parts according to you, whether or not he would need them from now on.
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His school and credit strokes, cold and parchment, he was in most of his textbooks, a
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palganon corner, to be left behind.
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He wondered what his aunt and uncle would do with them, burned them in the date of the
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night, probably as it even, some evidence of their free time.
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His mugged loading and his wealthy clothes, portion of him getting kit, certain books, the
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photograph of him and Hagrid had given him once.
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A stack of letterless wounds had been repiled into an old rucksack in a front pocket with
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the monolismap and the locket with the north side, the RAB inside it.
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The locket was the accorded display of honor not because it was valuable.
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In all its usual sense it was worthless, but because of what cost to attain it, this
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less left a sizable stack of newspapers sitting on his desk beside his snowy out.
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Anyway, one for each of these Harry had spent at the private driver this summer.
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He got off the floor, stretched and moved across to his desk.
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He had weak main door movement as he began to flick through the newspapers, throwing them
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on the rubbish pile one by one.
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The hour was asleep or as fakey.
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She was angry with Harry, about the amount of time she was allowed to go for a cage at
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the moment.
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As he near the bottom of the pile of newspapers, Harry slowed down, searching for one particular
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agent which he knew and arrived shortly after he had returned to the job, probably
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to drive for the summer.
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He remembered that there had been a small mention of the front of the reservation of charity
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per base, the Maghars-Rish teacher at Hogwarts.
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At last he found it, turning to base 10, he sank into his desk chair and re-read the
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article he had been looking for.
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Albus Dumbledore remembered by Albus Daudge.
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I met Albus Dumbledore at the age of 11 on a first-aid Hogwarts.
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A mutual attraction was undoubtedly due to the fact that he both felt ourselves to be
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outsiders.
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I had contracted down the book shortly before arriving at school, and while I was no longer
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contagious, my bookmarked with sage and green issued an unengaged menu to approach me,
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for a spot Albus had writeed Hogwarts on the burden of unwound and notoriety.
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Scarely, a peer-eared previously his father Percival had convicted a savage and well-publicish
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attack upon three young Muggles.
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Albus never attempted denying that his father, who was done in ask a man had committed
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disgrowing.
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On the contrary, when I plugged up Percival's to ask him, he assured me that he knew his father
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to be guilty.
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Beyond that, Dumbledore refused to speak of a sad business, but many attempted to make
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him do so.
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Some indeed were disposed to praise his father's action and assumed that Albus too was a Muggle
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Hater.
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They could not have been a more mis-skate mistaken as anybody who knew Albus would attest.
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He never revealed the remotest anti-muggle tendency.
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Indeed, his determined support for Muggle-Rides gained many enemies in subsequent years.
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In a matter of months, however, Albus's own fame had begun to eclipse that of his father.
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But at the end of his first year, he would never again be known as the son of Muggle-Rides.
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But nothing less than the most brilliant student ever seen at the school.
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Those of us who were privileged to be friends benefitted from his example, not to mention
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his help and encouragement with which he was always generous.
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He confessed to me in a later life that he knew, even then that his greatest pleasure
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lay in teaching.
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He not only won every prize of note that his school offered, he was soon in regular correspondence
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with the most notable magical names of the three, including Nicholas Vermehl, the celebrated
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agamist, but the little backshot that noted his story in an adlibert warfling, the magical
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theory, theoretically.
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Several of his papers found the way into learning publications at a transfer ratio today,
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challenges in charming and the political post-mere.
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Double those future courteous seemed lucky to me, and the only question that remained was
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when he would become a minister of magic.
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Though it was often predicted in late years that he was on the point of taking the job,
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however, he never had ministerial ambitions.
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Three years after he had solid a Hogwarts, Albus's brother Abafot, right to school.
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They were not like Abafot was never vocation, unlike Albus preferred to sit long-hours by
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doing whether through response, discreasing, discussion.
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However, it is quite wrong to suggest that some have, that the brothers would not
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friends.
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They robbed a longest comfortably as two such different boys could do.
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In fairness to Abafot, it must be that living in our possess shadow cannot have been an
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all-requited, comfortable experience.
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Being continually out shown was not occupational as a horror being his friend and cannot have
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been any more pleasurable as a brother.
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The Albus and I left Hogwarts, we are intending to take the then traditional tour of the world
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together, visiting and observing before pursuing a separate career as however tragedy
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intervened.
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On the very eve of our trip, Albus's mother Kendra died, leaving Albus the head and
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sole breadwinner of the family.
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I postponed my departure long enough to pay my respects at Kendra's funeral.
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Then left for what was now to be a solitary journey, with a young brother and sister to
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care for, little gold left to them.
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They could no longer be any question of Albus accompanying me.
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There was a period of our lives when we had least contact.
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I wrote to Albus describing for us insensitively the wonders of my journey from Naro escape from
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Shemero's in Greece to the experiments of Egyptian alchemists.
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He has let us told me in little office day to day alive which I used to be frustratingly
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dull for such a brilliant weather.
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He was in my own experience.
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It was withholding that I heard towards the end of my ears travel that yet another tragedy
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had struck the dumbledores.
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The death of his sister Aryan.
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Though Aryan I had been in poor health for a long time.
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The blow coming just soon after the loss of their mother had a profound effect on both
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of them.
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Our brothers, all those closest to Albus and I count myself out that lucky number, I
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agree that Aryan on a death and Albus is feeling of personal responsibility for it.
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Though of course he was little less, left their mark upon him forevermore.
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I returned home to find a young man who were experienced, a much older person suffering.
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Albus was more reserved than before and much less light hearted.
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To add to his mystery the loss of Aryan I had led, not to a renowned closeness between
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Albus and Albus, but to an in-strangement.
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In time this would lift in literally years they reestablished if not a closed relationship
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then certainly a cordial one.
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However, he really spoke of his parents sort of Aryan from their own and his friends
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learn not to mention it.
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Other calls would describe the turn of the following years, Dhamma Lo's in-humane
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contributions to the store of visiting knowledge, including his discovery of the 12 uses of
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dragon's blood, benefitted generations to come as well as the wisdom he displayed in
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the many enjotment he made while chief world-doc of the visiting gamut.
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This is still the nervousness that he had ever matched between Dumbledore and Grindelwald
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in 1945.
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Those who witnessed it have written around the awe they felt as if it were these two extraordinary
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visits to battle.
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Dumbledore's trial and fairness consequences for the visiting world are considering a
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turning point in magical history to match the introduction of the international statue
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of secrecy with the downfall of he who must not be named.
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Albus Dumbledore was never proud of him.
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He could find something to value in any more.
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However, apparently insignificant or reached and I believe that his early losses in
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the Northern with great humanity and sympathy, I shall miss his friendship more than I can
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say.
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But my loss has nothing compared to the visiting world.
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He was the most inspiring and best love to all of us as masters cannot be questioned.
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He died as he lived, working always with a greater good and to his last hour as willing
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to stretch out a hand to small boy with dragon walks as he was on the day that I met him.
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How he finished reading but could he do gaze at the picture or the image of Dumbledore
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who was wearing his familiar car in the smile but as he appeared over the top of his
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eyes in half-moon spectacles, he gave the impression even a new sprint of exuring Harry
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whose sadness may go with the sense of humiliation.
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He had thought he knew Dumbledore quite well.
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But ever since reading this or which way he had been forced to recognize that he had
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barely known him at all.
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Never once he had imagined Dumbledore's child or her youth.
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It was as though he had sprung into being his Harry and known him.
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When a ravel and silver haired an old.
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The idea of a teenage Dumbledore simply all, like trying to imagine a stupid, hominy
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or a friendly blast in a scoot.
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He had never thought to ask Dumbledore about his past.
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No doubt it would have felt strange, important even but after all it was a common knowledge
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that Dumbledore had taken part in that legendary duel with Grindelwald.
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And Harry had not thought to ask Dumbledore what that had been like.
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Nor about any of his other famous achievements.
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No, they had always discussed Harry, Harry's past, Harry's future, Harry's blood.
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And it seemed to Harry now despite the fact that his future was so dangerous and so uncertain
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that he missed irreplaceable opportunities when he had failed to ask Dumbledore more about
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himself.
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Even though the only personal question he had ever asked is that Master was also the only
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one.
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He suspected that Dumbledore had not answered honestly.
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He had asked, when you see when you look in the mirror.
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I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks.
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After several minutes, it's hot Harry, tore the obituary out of the profit, folded carefully
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and tucked it inside the first volume of practical defense and magic and it's used and it's
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done.
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And then he threw the rest of the newspaper on the rubbish pile and turned to the face
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the room.
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It was much the idea that the only things left out of the place for today's day, profit,
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still lying on the bed and on top of it the broken piece of mirror.
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Harry moved across the room, said, slid the mirror fragment of today's profit and then
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folded a newspaper.
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He had merely glanced at the headline when he had taken the rolled up paper from the
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delivery out early that morning and thrown it aside.
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After noting that it said about Voldemort, Harry was sure that the ministry was leading
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on the profit to suppress news about Voldemort.
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It was only now, therefore, that he saw what he had missed.
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Across the bottom half of the front page, his smaller headline was set over the picture
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of Dumbledore's trying to look in harried Dumbledore but throughout that last.
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Coming next week, the shocking story of the flawed genius considered how many to be
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the greatest wizard of his generation, stripping away the popular image of Seren's
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self-reveated wisdom.
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We just needed to use the disturbed childhood, the lawless youth, the lifelong fused and
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the guilty secrets that Dumbledore carried to his grave.
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Why was the man taped to the Minnesotan Magic content to remain a militant master?
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What was the real purpose of the secret organization known as the Oral of Phoenix?
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How did Dumbledore really meet his end?
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The answer to these and many more questions are explored in the explosive new biography
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The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore by Rita Skiater, Exclusive, interviewed by Betty
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Brathwaite, Page 13, and Sai.
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Harry ripped open the paper and found Page 13, the article was stopped with the picture
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showing another familiar face.
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I have been wearing jeweled glasses with a laboratory card, blonde hair, a teed bear in
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what was clearly supposed to be a vining smile, wiggling of fingers up at him, doing his
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best to ignore this nauseating image Harry ran on.
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In person, Rita Skiater is much more than a softer than a famous ferocious school portrait
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not suggest, greeting me in the hall of a cozy room, she leads me straight into the kitchen,
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work up of the slice of pound cake, and it goes without saying a steaming vat of fresh
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it gossip.
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Well of course Dumbledore is a biographer's dream, Sai Skiater, such a long full life, I'm
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sure my book will be the first of very many.
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Skiater was certainly a quick of the mark, a 900 page book was completed, a mere four
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weeks after Dumbledore's misdeeds, nothing June.
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I ask, how she manages super fast feet?
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Oh, when you have been journalist as long as I have, working to a deadline, is second
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nature, I knew that the visiting world was clamoring for the full story and wanted to
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first run to meet that need.
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I mention the recent widely publicist remarks of Elf East Oat, special adviser to the women
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visiting gambler and long standing friend of Albus Dumbledore's, that Skiater's book
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contains less than less fact than a chocolate frog card, Skiater throws back her head and
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loss, darling Doji, and interviewing him a few years back about my people's rights.
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Bless him, completely caga.
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Seemed to think we were sitting at the bottom of Lake Windamer, kept telling me to watch
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our fur throat.
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And yet Elf East Oat's doges accusation of inaccuracy have been occurring in many places.
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The Skiater really feel that four short weeks have been enough to gain a full picture
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of Dumbledore's long and extraordinary life.
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Oh my dear, beam skater, wrapping me affectionately across the knuckles, as well as I do.
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How much information can be generated by a fat bag of cullions or a few of the other word?
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No, and I shop quick-cooked squill.
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People were quite quenning to dish the dirt on Dumbledore anyway.
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Not everyone thought he was so wonderful.
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He's drawn on an awful lot of important toes, but oh Doji Doji can get off his high
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hip-huff because our var access to a source, most journalists would swap their wants for
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one who was never spoken public before and was close to Dumbledore due to the most
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dull and disturbing face of the deuth.
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The advance from the city for a ski-tispy-agre, if you have certainly said that they will
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be shocked in store for those who believe Dumbledore to have led a blameless life.
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What were the biggest surprises she had covered?
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I ask.
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Now come off it, Betty.
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I'm not giving away all the highlights before anybody's bought the book.
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Love ski-tip.
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But I can promise that anybody who still thinks Dumbledore's white-hushed beard isn't for
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a rule of eight-meant.
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Let's just say that nobody hearing him rage against you and a who would have dreamed
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that he dabbled in the dark arts himself in his youth.
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And for a visitor who spent his latter, he is pleading for tolerance.
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He wasn't exactly born-minded when he was younger.
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Yes, Albus Dumbledore had an extremely murky past, not to mention that very fishy family,
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which he worked so hard to keep us up.
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I ask where the ski-tip is referring to Dumbledore's brother, Abba Fort, whose conviction mother
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was in Gamot for missus of magic caused a minor scandal 15 years ago.
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Oh, Abba Fort is just a tip of the dumb heap.
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Love ski-tip.
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Now in there I'm talking much worse than brother with the fondness of filling about with
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the girls, worse even than the muggle-maning.
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Father, Dumbledore couldn't even keep either of them quiet anyway.
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They were both charged by the viznigamot.
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No, it's the mother and the sister that incrued me.
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And all those dinging, uncovered a positive nest of nastiness.
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But I'd say you'll have to wait for chapter 9 to 12 for a full details.
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All I can say now is it snowing under Dumbledore.
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Never talked about how his nose got broken.
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Family skeletons knocked with standing.
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Thus skated the night of the brilliance that led to Dumbledore's many magical discoveries.
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He had brains, she conceits.
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All the many now questioned whether he could really take full credit for love of his supposed
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achievement.
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As a reveal in chapter 16, Iver Dillsby claims he had already discovered eight years of
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the triangular, the number of borrowed his papers, but the importance of some of Dumbledore's
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achievements cannot avenge a bidenade.
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What of his famous defeat of Grindelwald?
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Oh, now I'm glad you mentioned Grindelwald, she says, Cater, the tantalizing smile.
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I'm afraid those who could do it or do it or do it over Dumbledore's spectacular victory
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must praise themselves for a bombshell.
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Perhaps a dumb bomb, very dirty business indeed.
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All I'll say is don't be sure that really was a spectacular duel of legend.
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After they've read my book, people may be forced to conclude that Grindelwald simply conjured
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a vitality from the end of his war and came quietly.
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Skated refuses to give any more away on the intrudey subject, so we turn instead to the
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relationship that will undoubtedly fascinate more readers more than any other.
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Oh yes, non-imbrisley.
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A devoted and tired chapter to the whole water-dumbled relationship.
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He's been called unallly, even sinister.
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Again, your readers will have to buy my book for the whole story, but there is no question
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that Dumbledore took an unnatural interest in the water from the word go.
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Whether that was really in the boy's best interest, well, we'll see.
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It's certainly an open secret that Portras had most trouble the role since.
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I asked for the skill you still not for the Harry Potter, whom she so famously interviewed
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last year, a breakthrough praise in which Portras spoke exclusively of his conviction
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that you know who had it on.
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Oh yes, with Dr. Closed Moments, say Skated.
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Poor Portras has few real friends, and we met at one of the most testing moments of
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his life.
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The drive is a tournament.
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I'm probably one of the only people alive who can see that they know the real Harry Potter.
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It slews us neatly to the many rumors that he's circulating about Dumbledore's final
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hours.
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The skater believed that Harry Potter was there when Dumbledore died, and I don't know
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what to say too much.
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It's all in the book, but I witness it inside.
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Hogueworth's castle saw water running away from sea.
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Moments of Dumbledore fell.
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Dumbledore was pushed.
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Potter later gave evidence against every snake, a man against whom he has a notorious
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grudge.
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He said everything has it seems.
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That is for the visiting community to decide once they read my book.
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On an intriguing note, I take my leave.
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The skater has quelled an instant pastella.
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Dumbledore's legions of admirers, meanwhile many well-retrimbling at what is to soen
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emerge about the hero.
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Harry is the bottom of the article, but can you stay blankly at the page?
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Revolution and fury rose in him like vomit.
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He bought of the news program, true, with all his force at the wall.
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He rejoined the rest of the rubbish heaped around his overflowing ben.
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He began to start blindly around the room, opening him to the doors and picking up books
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only to replace them on the same pile.
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Barely conscious of what he was doing as random phrases from readers, article echoed
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in his head and a dire chapter to the Potter Dumbledore relationship.
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He's been called an early even sinister.
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He dived in the dark arts himself in his youth.
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I've had access to a source, more generous, with so much warmth to all.
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Lies, Harry belowed.
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And through the window he saw the next door neighbor who had boss restarted his lone
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more look of nursery.
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Harry sat down hard on the bed, the broken bit of menorance away from him.
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He put it up and turned it over in his fingers, thinking of dumber and the lois, with which
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Rita's cutie was defaming him.
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Of lash of pride, disc blue.
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Harry froze, cut finger slipping on the jacked edge of the middle again.
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He had imagined it.
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He must have done.
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He clandered over his shoulder, but the wall was the sickly peach colour found between
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his choosing.
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There was nothing blue there for the merit to reflect.
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He peered into the mirror fragment again and saw nothing but his own bright green eye
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looking back.
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He had imagined it.
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There was no other explanation.
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Imagine because he had been taking off his dead head master.
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If anything was certain, it was that the bright blue eyes of Albert Stumblebleau could
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never be the same again.
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The bright blue eyes of Albert Stumblebleau could never be the same again.