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re just for de,”
said hermione.
they watched the birds s littering --
glittering?
”theyre not birds!” harry said suddenly. ”theyre keys! winged
keys -- look carefully. so that must mean...” he looked around
the chamber while the other two squihe flock of
keys. ”... yes -- look! broomsticks! weve got to catch the key to
the door!”
”but there are huhem!”
rohe lo the door.
”were l, old-fashioned one -- probably silver,
like the handle.”
they each seized a broomstid kicked off into the air,
s i of the cloud of keys. they grabbed and
she bewitched keys darted and dived so quickly it
ossible to e.
n, though, was harry the you seeker
iury. he had a knack f things other people
didnt. after a minutes weaving abh the whirl of rainbow
feathers, he noticed a large silver key that had a bent wing, as
if it had already been d stuffed roughly into the keyhole.
”that oo the others. ”that big ohere --
h bright blue wihers are all crumpled
on one side.”
ro speediion that harry ointing,
to the g, and nearly fell off his broom.
”weve got to on it!” harry ot taking his
eyes off the key with the damaged wing. ”ron, you e at it from
above -- hermioay belo it from going down and ill
try and catch it. right, 1533631172!”
ron dived, hermioed upward, the key dodged them both,
and harry streaked after it; it sped toward the wall, harry leaned
forward and with a nasty, g noise, pi against the
stoh one hand. ron and hermiones cheers echoed around the
high chamber.
they landed quid harry rahe key
struggling in his hand. he rammed it into the lod turned --
it worked. the moment the lock had cli, the key took flight
again, lookiered now that it had been caught twice.
”ready?” harry asked the other two, his hand on the door
hahey he door open.
the chamber was so dark they t see anything at
all. but as they stepped into it, light suddehe room
to reveal an astonishing sight.
they were standing on the edge of a huge chessboard, behind the
black , which were all taller than they were and
what looked like blae. fag them, way across the chamber,
were the white pieces. harry, ron and hermihtly --
the t white had no faces.
”noe do?” harry whispered.
”its obvious, isnt it?” said ron. ”weve got to play our way
across the room.”
behie pieces they could see another door.
”how?” said hermione nervously.
”i think,” said ron, ”were goio be .”
he to a blaight and put his hand out to touch
the knights horse. at o to life. the horse
pawed the grouured head to look
down at ron.
”do we -- er -- have to join you to get across?” the black
knight urwo.
”this hinking abouthe said. i suppose weve got to
take the place of three of the black pieces....”
harry aayed quiet, wat think. finally
he said, ”now, dont be offehiher of you
are that good at chess --”
”were not offended,” said harry quickly. ”just tell us what
to do.”
”well, harry, you take the place of that bishop, and hermione,
you 90 o him ihat castle.”
”what about you?”
”im goi,” said ron.
the seemed to have been liste these
wht, a bishop, and a castle turheir ba the
white pied walked off the board, leaviy squares
that harry, roook.
”wh