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第4章 如你所愿

“That village a few miles off?

“Wha—?... Yeah, of course,” he said, pulling himself together. “Well... okay. If I can't get Slughorn to talk this afternoon, I'll take some Felix and have another go this evening.”

“Well, Harry,” said Fudge, pouring out tea, “you've had us all in a right flap, I don't mind telling you. Running away from your aunt and uncle's house like that! I'd started to think…but you're safe, and that's what matters.”

“Then spare my life for the love of Heaven, as I spared yours,”

“When I heard - well, of course, it was all my fault. Could have kicked myself.”

“The occupation resumed under the influence of this passing

“Was that Grace Poole? and is she possessed with a devil?”

“What?” said Harry quickly. “Dumbledore's angry with Snape?”

“When I discovered it, after all those years, buried in the abandoned home of the Gaunts – the Hallow I had craved most of all, though in my youth I had wanted it for very different reasons – I lost my head, Harry. I quite forgot that I was not a Horcrux, that the ring was sure to carry a curse. I picked it up, and I put it on, and for a second I imagined that I was about to see Ariana, and my mother, and my father, and to tell them how very, very sorry, I was….”