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9;m g them off to t brooms. i
dont see why first years t have their own. i think ill bully
father iing me one and ill smuggle it in somehow.”
harry was strongly reminded of dudley.
”have you got your own broom?” the boy went on.
”no,” said harry.
”play quidditch at all?”
”nai oh quidditch
could be.
”i do -- father says its a crime if im o play for
my house, and i must say, i agree. know what house youll be i?”
”no,” said harry, feeliupid by the minute.
”well, no one really knows uhere, do they, but i
know ill be in slytherin, all our family have been -- imagine being
ihink id leave, wouldnt you?” ”mmm,” said harry,
wishing he could say something a bit m.
”i say, look at that man!” said the boy suddenly, nodding toward
the front window. hagrid was standing there, grinning at harry and
pointing at twe ice creams to show he t e in.
”thats hagrid,” said harry, pleased to khe boy
didnt. ”he wwarts.”
”oh,” said the boy, ”ive heard of him. hes a sort of servant,
isnt he?”
”hes the gamekeeper,” said harry. he was liking the boy less
and less every sed.
”yes, exactly. i heard hes a sort of savage -- lives in a
hut on the school grounds and every now as drunk,
tries to do magids up settio his bed.”
”i think hes brilliant,” said harry coldly.
”do you?” said the boy, with a slight sneer. ”why is he with
you? arents?”
”theyre dead,” said harry shortly. he didnt feel much like
going ier with this boy.
”oh, sorry,” said the other,. not sounding sorry at all. ”but
they were our kihey?”
”they were a witd wizard, if thats what you mean.”
”i really dont think they should let the other sort in, do
you? theyre just heyve up to
know our ways. some of them have never even heard of hogwarts until
they get the letter, imagihink they should keep it in the
families. whats your surname, anyway?”
but before harry swer, madam malkin said, ”thats you
done, my dear,” and harry, not sorry for aop talking
to the boy, hopped dowool.
”well, ill see you at hogwarts, i suppose,” said the drawling
boy.
harry was rather quiet as he ate the ice cream hagrid had bought
him (chod raspberry with uts).
”whats up?” said hagrid.
”nothing,” harry lied. they stopped to buy pard
quills. harry cheered up a bit when he found a bottle of ink that
ged color as you wrote. when they had left the shop, he said,
”hagrid, whats quidditch?”
”blimey, harry, i keep fettin how little yeh know -- not
knowin about quidditch!”
”dont make me feel worse,” said harry. he told hagrid about
the pate boy in madam malkins.
”--and he said pele families shouldnt even be
allowed in.”
”yer nle family. if hed knoere
-- hes grown up knowin yer name if his parents are wizardin
folk. you saw what everyohe leaky was like when
they saw yeh. anyway, what does he know about it, some o the best
i ever saw were the oh magi em in a long line 0
muggles -- look at yer mum! look what she had fer a sister!”
”so what is quidditch?”
”its our sport. ort. its like -- like so the
muggle world -- everyone follows quidditch -- played up in the air
on broomstid theres four balls -- sorta hard ter explain
the rules.” ”and what are slytherin and hufflepuff?”
”school houses. theres four. everyone says hufflepuff are a
lot o duffers, but --”