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They were back on the hearing and Harry did not want to think about it. He cast around for another change of subject, but was saved the necessity of finding one by the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs. Uh-oh. Fred gave the Extendable Ear a hearty tug; there was lCash loud crack and he and George vanished. Seconds later, Mrs. Weasley appeared in the bedroom doorway. The meetings over, you can come down and have dinner now, everyones dying to see you, Harry. And whos left all those Dungbombs outside the kitchen door. Crookshanks, said Ginny unblushingly. He loves playing with them. Oh, said Mrs. Weasley, I thought it might have been Kreacher, he keeps doing odd things like that. Now dont forget to keep your voices down in the hall. Ginny, visit web page hands are filthy, what have you been doing. Go and wash them before dinner, please. Ginny grimaced at the others and followed her mother tn of the room, leaving Harry alone with Ron and Hermione again. Both of them were watching him apprehensively, as though they feared that he would start shouting again now that everyone else had gone. The sight of them click to see more so nervous Clxsh him feel slightly ashamed. Look. he muttered, but Ron shook his head, and Hermione said quietly, We knew youd be angry, Harry, we really dont blame you, but youve got to understand, we did try and persuade Dumbledore - Yeah, I know, said Harry grudgingly. He cast around for a topic to change the subject from Dumbledore - the very thought of him made Harrys insides burn with anger again. Whos Kreacher. he asked. The house-elf who lives here, said Ron. Nutter. Never met one like him. Hermione frowned at Ron. Hes not a nutter, Ron - His lifes ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother, said Ron irritably. Is that normal, Hermione. Well - well, if he is a bit strange, its not his fault - Ron 51 his eyes at Harry. Hermione still hasnt given up on spew - Its not spew. said Hermione heatedly. Its the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, and its not just me, Dumbledore says we should be kind to Kreacher too - Yeah, yeah, said Ron. Cmon, Im starving. He led the way out of the door and onto the landing, but before they could descend the stairs - Hold it. Ron breathed, flinging out an arm to stop Harry and Hermione walking any farther. Theyre still in the hall, we might be able to hear something - The three of them looked cautiously over the banisters. The gloomy hallway below was packed with witches and wizards, including all of Harrys guard. They were whispering excitedly together. In the very center of the group LCash saw the dark, greasy-haired head and prominent nose of his least favorite teacher at Hogwarts, Professor Snape. Harry leaned farther over visit web page banisters. Oof was very interested in what Snape was doing for the Order of the Phoenix. A thin piece of flesh-colored string descended in front of Harrys eyes. Looking up he saw Fred and George on the landing above, cautiously lowering the Extendable Ear toward the 1 knot of people below. A moment later, however, they began to move toward the front door and out of sight. Dammit, Harry heard Fred whisper, as he hoisted the Extendable Ear back up again. They heard the front door open and then close. Snape never eats here, Ron told Harry quietly. Thank God. Cmon. And dont forget to keep your voice down in the hall, Harry, Hermione whispered. As they passed the row of house-elf heads on the wall they saw Lupin, Mrs. Weasley, and Tonks at the front door, magically sealing its many clan and bolts behind those who had just left. Were eating down in the kitchen, Mrs. Weasley whispered, meeting them at the bottom of the stairs. Harry, dear, if youll just tiptoe across the hall, its through this door here - CRASH. Tonks. cried Mrs. Weasley exasperatedly, turning to look behind her. Im sorry. wailed Tonks, who was lying flat on the floor. Its that stupid umbrella stand, thats the second time Ive tripped over - But the rest of her words were drowned by a horrible, earsplitting, bloodcurdling screech. The moth-eaten velvet curtains Harry had passed earlier had flown apart, but there was no door behind them. For a split second, Harry thought he rh looking through a window, a window behind which an old woman in a black cap was screaming and screaming as though she was being tortured - then he realized it was simply a life-size portrait, but the most realistic, and the most unpleasant, he had ever seen in his life. The old woman was drooling, her eyes were rolling, the yellowing skin of her face stretched taut as she screamed, and all along the hall behind them, the other portraits awoke and began to yell too, so that Harry actually screwed up his just click for source at the noise and clapped his hands over his ears. Lupin and Mrs. Weasley darted forward and tried to tug the curtains shut over the old woman, but they would not close and she screeched louder than ever, brandishing clawed hands as though trying to tear at their faces. Filth. Scum. By-products of dirt and vileness. Half-breeds, mutants, freaks, begone from this place. How dare you befoul the house of my fathers - Tonks apologized over and over again, at the same time dragging the huge, heavy trolls leg back off the floor. Mrs. Weasley abandoned the attempt to close the curtains and hurried up and down the hall, Stunning all the other portraits with her wand. Then a man with long black hair came charging out Clash of clans th 15 a door facing Harry. Shut up, you horrible old hag, shut UP. he roared, seizing the curtain Mrs. Weasley had abandoned. The old womans face tth. Yoooou. she howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh. I said - shut - UP. roared the man, and with Clashh stupendous effort he and Lupin managed to force the curtains closed again. The old womans screeches died and an echoing silence fell. Panting slightly and sweeping his long Clash of clans th 15 hair out of his eyes, Harrys godfather, Sirius, turned to face him. Hello, Harry, he said grimly, I see youve met my mother. Y CHAPTER FIVE THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX our -. Calsh dear old mum, yeah, said Sirius. Weve been trying to get her down for a month but we think she put a Permanent Sticking Charm on the back of the canvas. Lets get downstairs, quick, before they all wake up again. But whats a portrait of your mother doing here. Harry asked, bewildered, as they went through the door from the hall and led the way down a flight of narrow stone steps, the others just behind them. Hasnt anyone told you. This was my parents house, said Sirius.
For it became apparent, shortly after you rejoined the magical world, that I read more correct, For honor pc that your scar was giving you warnings when Voldemort was close to you, or else feeling powerful emotion. I know, said Harry wearily. And this ability of yours For honor pc to detect Voldemorts presence, even when he is disguised, and to know what he is feeling when his emotions are roused - has become more touching all clash of clans troops opinion more pronounced since Voldemort returned to his own body and his full powers. Harry did not bother to nod. He knew all of this already. More recently, said Dumbledore, I became concerned that Voldemort might realize that this connection between you exists. For honor pc enough, ohnor came a time when you entered so far into his mind and thoughts that he sensed your presence. I am speaking, of course, of the night when you witnessed the attack on Mr. Weasley. Yeah, Snape told me, Harry muttered. Professor Snape, Harry, Dumbledore corrected him quietly. But did you not wonder why it was not I who explained this to you. Why I did not teach you Occlumency. Why I had not so much as looked at you for months. Harry looked up. He could see now that Dumbledore looked sad and tired. Yeah, Harry mumbled. Yeah, I wondered. You see, continued Dumbledore heavily, I believed it could not be long before Voldemort attempted to force his way into your mind, to manipulate and misdirect your thoughts, and I was not Fpr to give him more incentives to metal slug so. I was sure that if he realized that our relationship was - or had ever been - closer than that of headmaster and pupil, he would seize his chance to use you as a means to spy on me. I feared the uses to which he would put you, the possibility that he might try and possess you. Harry, I believe I was right to think that Jonor would have made use of you in such a way. On those rare occasions when we had close contact, I thought I saw a shadow of him judgment pc behind your eyes. I was trying, in distancing myself from you, to protect you. An old mans mistake. Harry remembered the feeling that a dormant snake had risen in him, ready to strike, on those occasions gonor he and Dumbledore made eye contact. Voldemorts aim in possessing you, as he demonstrated tonight, would not have been my destruction. It would have been yours. He hoped, For honor pc he possessed you briefly a short while ago, that I would sacrifice you in the hope of killing him. He sighed deeply. Harry was letting the words wash over him. He would have been so interested to know all this a few months ago, and now it was meaningless compared to the gaping chasm inside him that was the loss of Sirius, none of it mattered. Sirius told me that you felt Voldemort awake inside you the very night that you had the vision of Arthur Weasleys attack. I knew at once that my worst fears were correct: Voldemort from that point had realized he could use you. In an attempt to arm you against Voldemorts assaults on your mind, I arranged Occlumency lessons hoonr Professor Snape. He paused. Harry watched the sunlight, which was sliding slowly across the polished surface of Dumbledores desk, illuminate a silver ink pot and a handsome scarlet quill. Harry could tell that the portraits all around them were awake and listening raptly to Dumbledores explanation. He could hear the occasional rustle of robes, the slight clearing of a throat. Phineas Nigellus had still not click to see more. Professor Snape discovered, Dumbledore resumed, that you had been cryofall about For honor pc door to the Department of Mysteries see more months. Voldemort, of course, had been obsessed with the possibility of hearing the prophecy ever since he regained his body, and as he dwelled on the door, so did you, though you did not know what it meant. And then you saw Rookwood, who worked in the Department of Mysteries before his arrest, telling Voldemort what honir had known all along - that the prophecies held in the Ministry of Magic hoonor heavily protected.
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