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ou with an old mans wheezing waffle before we sink our

teeth into our delicious feast. what a year it has been! hopefully

your heads are all a little fuller than they were... you have

the whole summer ahead to get them y before

year starts....

”now, as i u, the house eeds awarding,

as stand thus: in fourth place, gryffindor, with

three huwelve points; in third, hufflepuff, with three

hundred and fifty-two; ravenclaw has four huwenty-six

and slytherin, four hundred awo.”

a storm and stampi from the slytherin

table. harry could see draalfoy banging his goblet on the

table. it was a sig sight.

”yes, yes, well doherin,” said dumbledore. ”however,

rets must be taken into at.”

the room weill. the slytherins smiles faded a little.

”ahem,” said dumbledore. ”i have a few last-mio

dish out. let me see. yes...

”first -- to mr. ronald weasley...”

ro purple in the face; he looked like a radish with a

bad sunburn.

”...for the best-played game of chess hogwarts has seen in many

years, i award gryffiy points.”

gryffindor early raised the bewitched g; the

stars overhead seemed to quiver. percy could be heard telling the

other prefects, ”my brother, you know! my yot

past magalls gia!”

at last there was silen.

”seiss hermier... for the use of cool

logi the face of fire, i award gryffiy points.”

hermione buried her fa her arms; harry stroed

she had burst intryffindors up and dowable were

beside themselves -- they were a hus up. ”third -- to

mr. harry potter...” said dumbledore. the room went deadly quiet

for pure standing ce, i award gryffindor house

sixty points.”

the din was deafening. those who could add up while yelling

themselves hoarse k gryffindor now had four hundred and

seventy-two poihe same as slytheriied

for the house cup -- if only dumblediven harry just one

more point.

dumbledore raised his hand. the room gradually fell silent.

”there are all kinds e,” said dumbledore, smiling. ”it

takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our e just

as mud up to our friends. i therefore aoints

to mr. om.”

someoandihe great hall might well have thought

some sort of explosion had taken place, so loud was the

erupted from the gryffindor table. harry, roood up

to yell and eville, white with shock, disappeared under

a pile of people hugging him. he had never won so much as a point

fryffindor before. harry, still g, nudged ron in the

ribs a malfoy, who t have looked more stunned

and horrified if hed just had the body-bi on him.

”whis, dumbledore called over the storm of applause,

for even ravend hufflepuff were g the downfall of

slytherile ge of de.”

he clapped his hands. in an instant, the green hangings became

sd the silver became gold; the huge slytheri

varyffindor lion took its plaape

ralls hand, with a horrible, forced

smile. he caught harrys eye and harry k o snapes

feelings toward him hadnt e jot. this didnt worry

harry. it seemed as though life would be baal year,

or as normal as it ever was at hogwarts.

it was the best evening of harrys life, better than winning

at quidditas, out mountain trolls... he

would tonight.

harry had almotten that the exam results were still to

e, but e they did. treat surprise, both he and ron

passed with good marks; hermione, of course, had the best grades of

the first years. even neville scraped through, his gy

mark making up for his abysmal potiohey had hoped that

goyle, who was almost as stupid as he was mean, mi