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“Yes, I know,” said Laurie, nodding wisely “Who told you?” demanded JoI wanted to amuse him one night when you were all away, and he was rather dismalHe did like it, so don’t scold, Jo,” said Beth meekly “You can’t keep a secretNever mind, it saves trouble now “Go on, please,” said Laurie, as Jo [...]

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Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Fleur lined up in front of Aunt Petunia’s gleaming sink “We’re one short,” said Lupin “Here,” said Hagrid gruffly, and he lifted Mundungus by the scruff of the neck and dropped him down beside Fleur, who wrinkled her nose pointedly and moved along to stand between Fred and George instead [...]

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“Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?” “Oh, not quite yet,” said Dumbledore, smiling”I daresay the moment will present itself in due courseGiven what has happened tonight,” he indicated his withered hand, “we can be sure that it will happen within a year “If you don’t mind dying,” said Snape roughly, [...]

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The other teachers are all supposed to refer us to the Carrows if we do anything wrongThey don’t, though, if they can avoid itYou can tell they all hate them as much as we do “Amycus, the bloke, he teaches what used to be Defense Against the Dark Arts, except now it’s just the Dark [...]

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“I will only do as you say after I have prayed to Allah”All right,” he replied”But there is to be no more delay after tomorrow Princess Fragrance watched him leave, laughing as he went, then found a pen and paper and wrote out a letter to Chen warning him of the Emperor’s intentions, and telling [...]

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Meanwhile, I was still sleeping on a couch, this one in the small living room that adjoined our bedroomI slept on that old couch for two months or moreI got a lot of reading, thinking, and work done, and the couch was pretty comfortable, but I hoped I wouldnt be on it forever As the [...]

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His method was as slovenly as ignorance could make it Though by trade a wright, and therefore a master of all the arts of joinery, he was so deficient in seriousness that he stole a coulter wherewith to batter the walls of the Excise Office While Peace fought the battle in solitude, Brodie was not [...]

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Poor John! I’m afraid I have neglected him sadly, but I thought I was right, and he never said anything “He tried not to be selfish, but he has felt rather forlorn, I fancyThis is just the time, Meg, when young married people are apt to grow apart, and the very time when they ought [...]

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He had waited for this, he had hoped for it “Nice costume, mister!” He saw the small boy’s smile falter as he ran near enough to see beneath the hood of the cloak, saw the fear cloud his pained face: Then the child turned and ran away Beneath the robe he fingered the handle of [...]

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“They said something about a bathroom,” said Ginny, “not long after you left “A bathroom?” Harry strode across the room to an open door leading off the Room of Requirement and checked the bathroom beyond “You’re sure they said bath\a150\a150?” But then his scar seared and the Room of Req1uirement vanishedHe was looking through the [...]

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