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s, hy warty hogwarts,
teaething please,
whether we be old and bald
with sees,
our heads could do with filling
with s stuff,
for now theyre bare and full of air,
dead flies and bits of fluff,
so teags worth knowing,
bring back what weve fot,
just do your best, well do the rest,
ail our brains all rot.
everybody fi differe last, only
the ere left singing along to a very slow funeral
march. dumbledore ducted their last feand and
when they had finished, he was ohose ed loudest.
”ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. ”a magid all we
do here! aime. off you trot!”
the gryffindor first years follh the g
crowds, out of the great hall, and up the marble staircase. harrys
legs were like lead again, but only because he was so tired and
full of food. he was too sleepy even to be surprised that the people
is along the corridors whispered ahey
passed, or that twice percy led them through doorways hidden behind
sliding panels and hahey climbed more staircases,
yawning and draggi, and harry was just w how
much farther they had to go wheo a sudden halt.
a bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them,
aook a step toward them they started throwing themselves
at him.
”peeves,” percy whispered to the first years. ”a peist.” he
raised his voice, ”peeves -- show yourself”
a loud, rude souhe air bei of a balloon,
answered.
”do you wao the bloody baron?”
there , and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a
wide mouth appeared, fled in the air, g
the walking sticks.
”oooooooh!” he said, with an evil cackle. ”ickle firsties! what
fun!”
he swooped suddehey all ducked.
”go aeeves, or the baronll hear about this, i mean
it!” barked percy.
peeves stuck out his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking
stievilles head. they heard him zooming away, rattling
or as he passed.
”you want to watch out for peeves,” said percy, as they set
off again. ”the bloody barons the only one who ,
he woen to us prefects. here we are.”
at the very end of the c a portrait of a very fat
ink silk dress.
”password?” she said. ”caput drais,” said perd the
p forward to reveal a rouhe wall. they
all scrambled through it -- neville needed a leg up -- and found
themselves in the gryffindor , a full
of squashy armchairs.
percy directed the girls through oo their dormitory
ahrough ahe top of a spiral staircase --
they were obviously iowers -- they found their beds at
last: five f with deep red, velvet s. their
trunks had already been brought up. too tired to talk much, they
pulled on their pajamas ao bed.
” great food, isnt it?” roh the
hangi off, scabbers! hes g my sheets.”
harry was going to ask ron if hed had areacle tart,
but he fell asleep almost at once.
perhaps harry had eaten a bit too much, because he had a very
strange dream. he rofessor quirrells turban, which
kept talking to him, telliraherin at
o was his destiny. harry told the turban he didnt
waherin; it got heavier aried to
pull it off but it tightened painfully -- and there was malfoy,
laughing at him as he struggled with it -then malfoy turhe
hook-eaape, whose laugh became high and cold -- there
was a burst ht and harry woke, sweating and shaking.
he rolled over and fell asleep again, and whe day,
he didhe dream at all.
chapter eight