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having a party, fred and

gee stole some d stuff from the kits.”

”hat now,” said harry breathlessly. ”lets find an

empty room, you wait til you hear this....”

he made sure peeves wasnt iting the door

behihehem what hed seen and heard.

”sht, it is the sorcerers stone, arying

to force quirrell to help him get it. he asked if he ko get

past fluffy - and he said something about quirrells hocus pocuss--

i re there are uardio from fluffy,

loads of es, probably, and quirrell would have done some

anti-dark arts spell that so break through --”

”so you meaones only safe as long as quirrell stands

up to snape?” said hermione in alarm.

”itll be gouesday,” said ron.

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quirrell, however, must have beeheyd thought. in

the weeks that followed he did seem to be gettihinner,

but it didnt look as though hed cracked yet.

every time they passed the third-floor corridor, harry, ron,

and hermione would press their ears to the door to check that fluffy

was still growling inside. snape ing about in his usual bad

temper, which surely meant that the stoill safe. whenever

harry passed quirrell these days he gave him an eng sort

of smile, and ron had started telling people at

quirrells stutter.

hermione, however, had more ohan the sorcerers

stoarted drawing up study schedules and g

all her notes. harry and ron wouldnt have mi she kept

naggihe same.

”hermiohe exams are ages away.”

”ten weeks,” hermios s like

a seiel.”

”but were not six hundred years old,” ron reminded her. ”anyway,

what are you studying for, you already know it a.”

”what am i studying for? are you crazy? you realize we o

pass these exams to get into the sed year? theyre very important,

i should have started studying a month ago, i dont know whats

gotten into me....”

ueachers seemed to be thinking along the

same lihey piled so muework ohe

easter holidays werent nearly as mu as the christmas o

was hard to relax with hermio the twelve uses

ons bl was. moaning and yawning,

harry a of their free time in the library with her,

tryihrough all their extra work.

”ill his,” ron burst out ohrowing

down his quill and looking longingly out of the library window. it

was the first really fiheyd had in months. the sky was a

e-here was a feeling in the air of

summer ing.

harry, who was looking up ”dittahousand magical

herbs and fungi, didnt look up until he heard ron say, ”hagrid! what

are you doing in the library?”

hagrid shuffled into view, hidihing behind his back. he

looked very out of pla his moleski.

”jus lookin,” he said, in a shifty voice that got their

i on whatre you lot up ter?” he looked suddenly

suspicious. ”yer not still lookin fer niel, are yeh?” ”oh,

we found out who he is ages ago,” said ron impressively. ”and we

know what that dogs guarding, its a sorcerers st --”

”shhhh!” hagrid looked around quickly to see if anyone was

listening. ”don go shoutin about it, whats the matter with yeh?”

”there are a feao ask you, as a matter of

fact,” said harry, ”about whats guardio from

fluffy --”

”shhhh!” said hagrid again. ”listen - e aer, im

not promisin ill tell yeh anythin, mind, but don go rabbitin

about it is aren spposed ter know. they