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e back. you have been warned.”
then she ged her desk into a pig and ba. they
were all very impressed and t wait to get started, but
soohey werent going to be g the furo
animals f time. after taking a lot of pliotes,
they were ea a matd started trying to turn it into a
he end of the lesson, ranger had made
ao her matagall showed the class
how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave hermione a rare smile.
the class everyone had really been looking forward to was
defe the dark arts, but quirrells lessoo
be a bit of a joke. his elled strongly of garlic, which
everyone said was to ire hed met in romania and
was afraid would be ing ba ohese days. his
turbahem, had beeo him by an africe
as a thank-y rid of a troublesome zombie, but they
werent sure they believed this story. for ohing, when seamus
finnigao hear how quirrell had fought off the
zombie, quirrell went pink aalking about the weather;
for ahey had a funny smell hung around the
turban, awi was stuffed full of
garlic as well, so that quirrell rotected wherever he went.
harry was very relieved to find out that he wasnt miles behind
everyos of people had uggle families and, like
him, hadnt had ahey were witd wizards. there
was so much to learn that even people like ron didnt have much of
a head start.
friday ortant day for harry and ron. they finally
mao find their way dow hall for breakfast
without getting lost once.
”what have we got today?” harry asked ron as he par
e.
”double potions with the slytherins,” said ron. ”snapes head
of slytherihey say he always favors them -- well be able
to see if its true.”
”wish magall favored us, ” said harry. prall
was head of gryffi hadnt stiving
them a huge pile of homework the day before.
just then, the mail arrived. harry had gottehis by
now, but it had given him a bit of a sho the first m,
when about a hundred owls had suddeo the great hall
duri, g the tables uheir owners,
and droppiers aheir laps.
hedwig hadnt brought harry anything so far. she sometimes
flew in to nibble his ear a of t off
to sleep ihe other school owls. this m,
however, she fluttered dowhe marmalade and the sugar
boed a o harrys plate. harry tore it open at
o said, iidy scrawl:
dear harry,
i k friday afternoons off, so would you like to e
and have a cup of tea with me around three?
i want to hear all about your first week. send us an answer
back with hedwig.
hagrid
harry borrowed rons quill, scribbled yes, please, see you
later on the back of the note, a hedwig off again.
it was lucky that harry had tea with hagrid to look forward to,
because the potiouro be the w that
had happeo him so far.
at the start-of-term ba, harry had gotte
professor snape disliked him. by the e potions lesson,
he knew hed been e didnt dislike harry -- he hated him.
potioook pla ohe du was
colder here than up in the main d would have been quite
ough without the piimals floating in glass jars
all around the walls.
swick, started the class by taking the roll call,
awick, he paused at harrys name.
”ah, yes,” he said softly, ”harry potter. our y.”
draalfoy and his friends d goyle sniggered behind
their hands. snape finished g the names a
the class. his eyes were black like hagrids, but they had none
of hagrids warmth. they were pty ahi