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thats between professor

dumbledore an niel --”

”aha!” said harry, ”so theres someone iel

ihere?”

hagrid looked furious with himself.

chapter twelve

the mirror of erised

christmas was in mid-december, hogwarts

woke to find itself several feet of snow. the lake froze

solid awins were punished for bewitg several

snowballs so that they followed quirrell around, boung off the

back of his turbahat male their way

through the stormy sky to deliver mail had to be o

health by hagrid before they could fly off again.

no one could wait for the holidays to start. while the gryffindor

a hall had r fires, the drafty

corridors had bee id a bitter wihe windows in

the s. rofessor snapes classes down

in the dungeoheir breath rose in a mist before them and

they kept as close as possible to their hot s.

”i do feel so sorry,” said draalfoy, oions class,

”for all those people who have to stay at hogwarts for christmas

because theyre home.”

he was looki harry as he spoke. d goyle

chuckled. harry, who was measuring out powdered spine of lionfish,

ighem. malfoy had been even more uhan usual since

the quidditch match. disgusted that the slytherins had lost, he

had tried thing at how a wide-m

w harry as seeker hen hed realized that

nobody found this fuhey ressed at the

way harry had maay on his bustialfoy,

jealous and angry, had goo taunting harry about having no

proper family.

it was true that harry wasnt going back to privet drive for

christmas. prall had e around the week before,

making a list of students who would be staying for the holidays,

and harry had sig once. he didnt feel sorry for himself at

all; this would probably be the best christmas hed ever had. ron

and his br, too, because mr. and mrs. weasley

were going to romania to visit charlie.

whehe duhe end of potions, they found

a large fir tree blog the corridor ahead. two e

stig out at the bottom and a loud puffing sound told them that

hagrid was behind it.

”hi, hagrid, ?” roig his head

through the branches.

”nah, im all right, thanks, ron.”

”would you mind moving out of the way?” came malfoys cold

drawl from behind them. ”are y to earra money,

ing to be gamekeeper yourself when you leave hogwarts,

i suppose -- that hut of hagrids must seem like a palapared

to what your familys used to.”

ro malfoy just as she stairs.

”weasley!”

rohe front of malfoys robes.

”he rovoked, professor snape,” said hagrid, stig his

huge hairy fa behiree. ”malfoy was insultin

his family.”

”be that as it may, fighting is against hrid,”

said snape silkily. ”five pryffindor, weasley, and be

grateful it isnt more. move along, all of you.”

malfoy, d goyle pushed roughly past the tree,

sg needles everywhere and smirking.

”ill get him,” said r his teeth at malfoys back,

”ohese days, ill get him --”

”i hate them both,” said harry, ”malfoy and snape.”

”e os nearly christmas,” said hagrid. ”tell

yeh what, e ahe great hall, looks a treat.”

so the three of them followed hagrid ao -the

great hall, where prall awick were

busy with the christmas des.

”ah, hagrid, the last tree -- put it in the far er,

would you?”

the hall looked spectacular. festoons of holly aoe hung

all around the walls, awelve t christmas

trees stood around