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be satisfied of it.”

And there he was, at a table right behind Harry. Harry stared. Snape-the-teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him, like a plant kept in the dark. His hair was lank and greasy and was flopping on to the table, his hooked nose barely half an inch from the surface of the parchment as he scribbled. Harry moved around behind Snape and read the heading of the examination paper: DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS—ORDINARY WIZARDING LEVEL.

aspired to—co-operate in nothing I undertook. Rosamond a

away, I can’t bear the sight on him.”

beadle the day before, to say they were going. The children were

another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed

At the coach window, as at the dinner-party, he hovered about us

away. They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my

before he discovered my presence. It was mournful, indeed, to