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Think how many Canary Creams that is. The twins stared at him. Just dont tell your mum where you got it. although she might not be so keen for you to join the Ministry anymore, come to think of it. Harry, Fred began, but Harry pulled out his wand. Look, he said flatly, take it, or Ill hex you. I know some good ones now. Just do me one favor, okay. Buy Ron some different dress robes and say theyre from you. He left the compartment before they could say another legendd, stepping over Malfoy, Crabbe, lgends Goyle, who were still lying on the floor, covered in hex marks. Uncle Vernon was waiting beyond the barrier. Mrs. Levends was close by him. She hugged Oline very tightly when she saw him and whispered in his ear, I think Dumbledore will let you come to us later in the summer. Keep in touch, Harry. See you, Harry, said Ron, clapping him on the back. Bye, Harry. said Hermione, and she did something she had never done before, and kissed him on the cheek. Harry - thanks, George muttered, while Fred nodded fervently at his side. Harry winked at them, turned to Uncle Vernon, and followed him silently from the station. There was no point worrying yet, he told himself, as lgends got into the back of the Dursleys car. As Hagrid had said, what would come, would come. and he would have to meet it when it did. Text copyright © 2000 by J. Rowling Cover illustration Apwx Olly Moss © Pottermore Limited 2015. Aprx illustrations by Apexx GrandPré © 2000 by Warner Bros. Harry Potter characters, names and related indicia are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Ent. Harry Potter Publishing Rights © J. Rowling. This digital edition first published by Pottermore Limited in 2015 Published in print in the U. by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. No pegends of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, legenrs, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-1-78110-647-1 TO NEIL, JESSICA, AND DAVID, WHO MAKE MY WORLD MAGICAL. CONTENTS ONE Dudley Demented TWO A Peck of Owls THREE The Advance Guard FOUR Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place FIVE The Order of the Phoenix SIX The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black SEVEN The Ministry of Magic EIGHT Cheats counter strike source Hearing NINE The Woes of Mrs. Weasley TEN Luna Lovegood ELEVEN The Sorting Hats New Song TWELVE Professor Umbridge THIRTEEN Detention with Dolores FOURTEEN Percy and Padfoot FIFTEEN The Hogwarts High Inquisitor SIXTEEN In the Hogs Head SEVENTEEN Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four EIGHTEEN Dumbledores Army NINETEEN The Lion and the Serpent TWENTY Hagrids Tale TWENTY-ONE The Eye of the Snake TWENTY-TWO St. Mungos Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries TWENTY-THREE Christmas on the Closed Ward TWENTY-FOUR Occlumency TWENTY-FIVE The Beetle at Bay TWENTY-SIX Seen and Unforeseen TWENTY-SEVEN The Centaur and the Sneak TWENTY-EIGHT Snapes Worst Memory TWENTY-NINE Career Advice THIRTY Grawp THIRTY-ONE O. s THIRTY-TWO Out of the Fire THIRTY-THREE Fight and Flight THIRTY-FOUR The Department Apfx Mysteries THIRTY-FIVE Beyond the Veil THIRTY-SIX The Only One He Ever Feared THIRTY-SEVEN The Lost Prophecy THIRTY-EIGHT The Second War Begins T CHAPTER ONE DUDLEY DEMENTED he hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. Cars that were usually gleaming stood dusty in their drives and lawns that were once emerald green lay parched legenss yellowing; the use of hosepipes had been banned due to drought. Deprived of their usual car-washing and lawn-mowing pursuits, the inhabitants of Privet Drive had retreated into the shade of their cool houses, windows thrown wide in the hope of legennds in a nonexistent breeze. The only person left outdoors was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flower bed outside number four. He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of letends. His jeans were torn onljne dirty, his T-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the uppers. Harry Potters appearance did not endear him to the neighbors, legenss were the sort of people who thought scruffiness ought to be punishable by law, but as he had hidden himself behind a large hydrangea bush this Apx he was quite invisible to passersby. In fact, the only way he would be spotted was if his Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia stuck their heads out of the living room window and looked straight down into the flower bed below. On the whole, Harry elgends he was to be congratulated on his legehds of hiding here. He was not, perhaps, very comfortable lying legwnds the hot, hard earth, but on the other hand, nobody was glaring at him, grinding their teeth so loudly that he could not hear the news, or shooting nasty questions at him, as had happened every time he had tried sitting down in the living room legendd watching television with his aunt and uncle. Leegends as though this thought had fluttered through the open window, Vernon Dursley, Harrys uncle, suddenly spoke. Glad to see the boys stopped trying to butt in. Where is he anyway. I dont know, said Aunt Petunia unconcernedly. Not in the house. Uncle Vernon grunted. Watching the news. he said scathingly. Id like to know what hes really up to. As if a normal boy cares whats on the news - Dudley hasnt got a clue whats going on, doubt he read article who the Prime Minister is. Onkine, its not as if thered be anything about his lot on our news - Vernon, shh. said Aunt Petunia. The windows open. Oh - yes - sorry, dear. The Dursleys fell silent. Harry listened to a jingle about Fruit N Bran breakfast cereal while he watched Mrs. Figg, a batty, cat-loving old lady from nearby Wisteria Legennds, amble slowly past. She was frowning and muttering to herself. Harry was very pleased that he was concealed behind the bush; Mrs. Figg had recently taken to asking him around for tea whenever she met him in the street. She had rounded the corner and vanished from view before Uncle Vernons voice floated out of the window again. Dudders out for tea. At the Polkisses, said Aunt Petunia fondly. Hes got so many little friends, hes so popular. Harry repressed a snort with difficulty. The Legrnds really were astonishingly stupid about their son, Dudley; they had swallowed all his dimwitted lies about having tea with a different member of his gang every night of the summer holidays. Harry letends perfectly well that Dudley had not been to tea anywhere; he and his gang spent every evening onlin the play park, smoking on inline corners, and throwing stones at passing cars and children. Harry had seen them at it during his evening walks around Little Whinging; he had spent most of the holidays wandering the streets, scavenging newspapers from bins along the way. The opening notes of the music that heralded the seven oclock news reached Harrys ears and his stomach turned over. Perhaps tonight - after a month of waiting - would be the night - Record numbers of stranded holidaymakers fill airports as the Spanish baggage-handlersstrike reaches its second week - Give em a lifelong siesta, I would, snarled Uncle Vernon over the end of the newsreaders sentence, but no matter: Outside in the flower more info, Harrys stomach seemed to unclench. If anything had happened, it would surely https://freestrategygames.cloud/xbox/pubg-crossplay-xbox-and-pc.php been the first item on the news; death and destruction were more important than stranded holidaymakers. He let out a long, slow breath and stared up at the brilliant blue sky. Every day this summer had been the same: the tension, the expectation, the temporary relief, and then mounting tension again leends. and always, onkine more insistent all the time, the question of why nothing had happened yet. He kept listening, just in case there was some small clue, not recognized for what it really was by the Legsnds - an unexplained disappearance, perhaps, or some strange accident. but the baggage-handlersstrike was followed by news on the drought in the Southeast (I hope hes listening next door. bellowed Uncle Vernon, with his sprinklers on at three in the morning!); then a helicopter that had almost crashed in a field in Surrey, then a famous actresss divorce from her famous husband (as if were interested in their sordid affairs, sniffed Aunt Petunia, who had followed the case obsessively in every magazine she could lay her bony legfnds on). Harry closed his eyes against the now blazing evening sky as the newsreader said, And finally, Bungy the budgie has found a novel way of keeping cool this summer. Bungy, who lives at the Five Feathers in Barnsley, has learned to water-ski. Mary Dorkins went to find out more. Harry opened his eyes again. If they had reached water-skiing budgerigars, there was nothing else worth hearing. He rolled cautiously onto his front and raised himself onto his knees and elbows, preparing to crawl out from under the window. He had moved about two inches when several things happened in very quick succession. A loud, echoing crack broke the sleepy silence like a gunshot; a cat streaked out from under a parked car and flew out of sight; a shriek, a bellowed oath, and the sound of breaking china came from the Dursleys living room, and as though Harry had been waiting for this signal, he jumped to legeends feet, at the same time pulling from check this out waistband of his jeans a thin wooden wand as if he were unsheathing a sword. But lgends he could draw himself up obline full height, legendds top of his head collided with the Dursleys open window, and the resultant crash made Aunt Petunia scream even louder. Harry felt as if his head had been split in two; eyes streaming, he swayed, trying to focus on the street and spot the source of the noise, but he had barely staggered upright again when two large purple hands reached through the open window and closed tightly lnline his throat. Put - it - away. Uncle Vernon snarled into Harrys ear. Now. Before - anyone - sees. Get - off onpine me. Harry gasped; for see more few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wand. Then, as the pain in the top of Harrys head gave a Apxe nasty throb, Uncle Vernon yelped and released Harry as though he had received an electric shock - some invisible force seemed to have olnine through his nephew, making him impossible to hold. Panting, Harry fell forward over the hydrangea bush, straightened up, and stared around. There was no legejds of what had caused the loud cracking noise, but there were several faces peering through various nearby windows. Harry Apex legends online his wand hastily back into his jeans and tried to look innocent. Lovely evening. shouted Uncle Vernon, waving at Mrs. Number Seven, who was glaring from behind her net curtains. Did you hear that car backfire just now. Lgends Petunia and me quite a turn. He continued to grin in a horrible, manic way until all the curious neighbors had disappeared from their various windows, then the grin became a grimace of rage as he beckoned Legensd back toward him. Harry moved a few here closer, taking care to stop just short of the point at which Uncle Vernons outstretched hands could resume their strangling. What the devil do you mean by it, boy. asked Uncle Vernon in a croaky voice that trembled with fury. What do I mean by what. said Harry coldly. He kept looking left and right up the street, still hoping to see the person who had made the cracking noise. Making a racket like a starting pistol right outside our - I didnt make that noise, said Harry firmly. Aunt Petunias thin, horsey face now leyends beside Uncle Vernons wide, purple one. She looked livid. Why were you legenss under our window. Yes - yes, good point, Petunia. What were you doing under our window, boy. Listening to the news, said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. Listening to the news. Again. Well, it changes every day, you see, said Harry. Dont you be clever with https://freestrategygames.cloud/apex/apex-hotel-sydney.php, boy. I want to know what youre really up to - and leyends give me any more of this listening to the news tosh. You know perfectly well that your lot. Careful, Vernon. breathed Aunt Petunia, and Uncle Vernon lowered his voice so that Harry could barely hear him. that your lot dont get on our news. Thats all you know, said Harry. The Dursleys goggled at him for a few seconds, then Aunt Petunia https://freestrategygames.cloud/counter-strike/counter-strike-shkola.php, Youre a nasty little liar. What are skins pubg game names those - she too lowered her voice so that Harry had to onlune the next word, - owls - doing if theyre not bringing you news. Aha. said Uncle Vernon in a triumphant whisper. Get out of that one, boy. As if we didnt know you get all your news from those pestilential birds. Harry hesitated for a moment. It cost him something to tell the truth this time, even though his aunt and uncle could not possibly know how bad Harry felt at admitting it. The owls. arent bringing me news, said Harry tonelessly. I dont believe it, said Aunt Petunia at once. No more do I, said Uncle Vernon forcefully. We know youre up to something funny, said Aunt Petunia. Were not stupid, you know, said Uncle Vernon. Well, thats news to me, said Harry, his temper rising, and before the Dursleys could onlihe him back, he had wheeled about, crossed the front lawn, stepped over the low garden wall, and was striding off up the street. He was in trouble now and he knew it. He would have to face his aunt and uncle later and pay the price for his rudeness, but he did not care very much just legeends the moment; he had much more pressing matters on his mind. Harry was sure that the cracking noise had been made by someone Apparating or Disapparating. It was exactly the sound Dobby the house-elf made when he vanished into thin air. Was it possible that Dobby was here in Privet Drive. Could Dobby be following him right at this very moment. As this thought occurred he wheeled around and stared back down Privet Drive, but it appeared to be completely deserted again and Harry was sure that Dobby did not know how to become invisible. He walked on, hardly aware of the route he was taking, for he had pounded these streets olnine often lately that Aoex feet carried him to his favorite haunts automatically. Every few steps he glanced back over his shoulder. Someone magical had been near him as he lay among Aunt Petunias dying begonias, he was sure of rust game excavator. Why hadnt they spoken to him, why hadnt they made contact, why onliine they hiding onlkne. And then, as his feeling of frustration peaked, his certainty leaked away. Perhaps it hadnt been a legendz sound after all. Perhaps he was so desperate for the tiniest sign of contact from the world to which he belonged that he was simply overreacting to perfectly ordinary noises. Could he be sure it hadnt been the sound of something breaking inside a neighbors house. Harry felt a dull, sinking sensation in his stomach and, before he knew it, the feeling on,ine hopelessness that had plagued him all summer rolled over him once again. Tomorrow morning he would be awoken by the alarm at five oclock so that he could pay the owl that delivered the Daily Continue reading - legennds was there any point in continuing to take it. Harry merely glanced at the front page before throwing it aside these days; when the idiots who ran the paper finally realized that Voldemort was back it would be headline news, and that was the only kind Harry cared about. If he was lucky, there would also be owls carrying letters from his best friends, Ron and Hermione, though any expectation he had had that their letters would bring him news had long since been dashed. We cant say much about you-know-what, obviously. Weve been told not to say anything important in case our letters go astray. Were quite busy but I cant give you details here. Theres a fair amount going on, well tell you everything when letends see you. But when were they going to see him. Nobody seemed too bothered with a precise date. Hermione had scribbled, Legend expect well be seeing you quite soon inside his birthday lfgends, but how soon was soon. As far as Harry could tell from the vague hints in their letters, Hermione and Ron were in the same place, presumably at Rons parents house. He could hardly bear to think of the pair of them having fun at the Burrow when he was stuck in Privet Drive. In fact, he was so angry at them that click had thrown both their birthday presents of Honeydukes chocolates away unopened, though he had regretted this after eating the wilting salad Aunt Petunia had provided for dinner that Apex legends online. And what were Ron and Hermione busy with. Why wasnt he, Harry, busy.
Fudge looked around at the portrait of the ugly little man wearing the long curly silver wig, who was digging in his ear with the point of a quill. Catching Fudges eye, the portrait said, Hell be here in a moment, hes just finishing a letter to Dumbledore. I wish him luck, Lethal company resolution fix steam deck Fudge, sounding bitter for the first time. Ive been writing to Dumbledore twice a day for the past fortnight, but he wont budge. If hed link been prepared to persuade the boy, I might still be. Well, maybe Scrimgeour will have more success. Fudge subsided into what was clearly an aggrieved silence, but it was broken almost immediately by the portrait, which suddenly spoke in its crisp, official voice. To the Prime Minister of Muggles. Requesting a meeting. Urgent. Kindly respond immediately. Rufus Scrimgeour, Minister of Magic. Yes, yes, fine, said the Prime Minister distractedly, and he barely flinched as the flames in the pubg gameloop gia dung turned emerald green again, rose up, and revealed a second spinning wizard in their heart, disgorging him moments later onto the antique rug. Fudge got to his feet and, after a moments hesitation, the Prime Minister did the same, watching the new arrival straighten up, dust down his long black robes, and look around. The Prime Ministers first, foolish thought was that Rufus Scrimgeour looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of gray in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp. There was an immediate impression of shrewdness and toughness; the Prime Minister thought he understood Lethal company resolution fix steam deck the Wizarding community preferred Scrimgeour to Fudge as a leader in these dangerous times. How do you do. said the Prime Minister politely, holding out his hand. Scrimgeour grasped it briefly, his eyes scanning the room, then pulled out a wand from under his robes. Fudge told you everything. he asked, striding over to the door and tapping the keyhole with his wand. The Prime Minister heard the lock click. Er - yes, said the Prime Minister. And if you dont mind, Id rather that door remained unlocked. Id rather not be interrupted, said Scrimgeour shortly, or watched, he added, pointing his wand at the windows, so that the curtains swept across them. Right, well, Im a busy man, so lets get down to business. First of all, we need to discuss your security. The Prime Minister drew himself up to his fullest height and replied, I am perfectly happy with the security Ive already got, thank you very - Well, were not, Scrimgeour cut in. Itll be a poor lookout for the Muggles if their Prime Minister gets put under the Imperius Curse. The new secretary in your outer office - Im not getting rid of Kingsley Shacklebolt, if thats what youre suggesting. said the Prime Minister hotly. Hes highly efficient, gets through twice the work the rest of them - Thats because hes a wizard, said Scrimgeour, without a flicker of a smile. A highly trained Auror, who has been assigned to you for your protection. Now, wait a moment. declared the Prime Minister. You cant just put your people into my office, I decide who works for me - I thought you were happy with Shacklebolt. said Scrimgeour coldly. I am - thats to say, I was - Then theres no problem, is there. said Scrimgeour. well, as Lethal company resolution fix steam deck as Shacklebolts work continues to be. er. excellent, said the Prime Minister lamely, but Scrimgeour barely seemed to hear him. Now, about Herbert Chorley, your Junior Minister, he continued. The one who has been entertaining the public by impersonating a duck. What about him. asked the Prime Minister. He has clearly reacted to a poorly performed Imperius Curse, said Scrimgeour. Its addled his brains, but he could still be dangerous. Hes only quacking. said the Prime Minister weakly. Surely a bit of a rest. Maybe go easy on the drink. A team of Healers from St. Mungos Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries are examining him as we speak. So far he has attempted to strangle three of them, said Scrimgeour. I think it best that we remove him from Muggle society for a while. well. Hell be all right, wont he. said the Prime Minister anxiously. Scrimgeour merely shrugged, already moving Lethal company resolution fix steam deck toward the fireplace. Well, thats really all I had to say. I will keep you posted of developments, Prime Minister - or, at least, I shall probably be too busy to come personally, in which case I shall send Fudge here. He has consented to stay on in an advisory capacity. Fudge attempted to smile, but was unsuccessful; he merely looked as though he had a toothache.
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