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oud never heard of dumbledore!” said ron. ”

i have a frog? i might get agrippa -- thanks

harry turned over his d read:

albus dumbledore

tly headmaster of hogwarts

sidered by ma wizard of modern times,

dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark

wizard grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of

dragons blood, and his work oh his partner, nicolas

flamel. professor dumbledore enjoys chamber musipin bowling.

harry turhe card bad saw, to his asto,

that dumbledores face had disappeared.

”hes gone!”

”well, you t expect him to hang around all day,” said

ron. ”hell be bao, ive gain and ive got about

six of her... do you want it? you start g.”

rorayed to the pile of chs waiting to

be uned.

”help yourself,” said harry. ”but in, you know, the muggle world,

people just stay put in photos.”

”do they? what, they dont move at all?” ron sounded

amazed. ”weird!”

harry stared as dumbledore sidled bato the pi his

d gave him a small smile. roed iing

the frogs than looking at the famous witd wizards cards,

but harry t keep his eyes off them. soo only

dumbledore and ma of woodcrrunnion,

circe, parad merlin. he finally tore his eyes away from

the druidess a, wh her o open a bag

of bertie botts every flavor beans.

”you want to be careful with those,” ron warned harry. ”when

they say every flavor, they mean every flavor -- you know, you

get all the ordinary oe a and mar-

malade, but then you get spinad liver and tripe. gee

res he had a booger- flavored one once.”

ron picked up a green bea carefully, and bit

into a er.

”bleaaargh -- see? sprouts.”

they had a good time eating the every flavor beans. harry

got toast, ut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee,

sardine, and was eveo he end off a funny

gray one ron wouldnt touch, whied out to be pepper.

the tryside now flying past the as being

wilder. the fields had gohere isting

rivers, and dark green hills.

there was a kno the door of their ent and the

round-faced boy harry had passed on platform hreequarters

. he looked tearful.

”sorry,” he said, ”but have you seen a toad at all?”

wheheir heads, he wailed, ”ive lost him! he

keeps getting away from me!”

”hell turn up,” said harry.

”yes,” said the boy miserably. ”well, if you see him...”

he left.

”dont know why hes so bothered,” said ron. ”if id brought a

toad id lose it as quiind yht scabbers,

so i t talk.”

the rat was still snoozing on rons lap.

”he might have died and you wouldnt know the difference,” said

ron in disgust. ”i tried to turerday to make him

m, but the spell didnt work. ill show you, look...”

he rummaged around in his trunk a a very

battered-looking wand. it ed in plaething white

was glinting at the end.

”uni hairs nearly poking out. anyway

he had just raised his wahe ent door slid

open agaioadless boy was back, but this time he had a girl

with him. she was already wearis robes.

”has aoad? nevilles lost one,” she said. she had

a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large

froh.

”weve already told him we have,” said ron, but the

girl wasnt listening, she was looking at the wand in his hand.

”oh, are you doing magic? lets see it, then.”

she sat down. roaken aback.

”er -- all right.”