Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Gockel Starry Sunrise I

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the trunks at eye level, an ideal place to see but not be seen. The ground around the roots, however, was free of snow, and Harry could see no sign of footprints. He walked back to where Ron stood waiting, still holding the sword and the Horcrux.

"Anything there?" Ron asked.

"No," said Harry.
One way to find out, isn't there?" said Harry.    The Horcrux was still swinging from Ron's hand. The locket was twitching slightly. Harry knew that the thing inside it was agitated again. It had sensed the presence of the sword and had tried to kill Harry rather than let him
"So how did the sword get in that pool?"

"Whoever cast the Patronus must have put it there."

   They both looked at the ornate silver sword, its rubied hilt glinting a little in the light from Hermione's wand.

"You reckon this is the real one?" asked Ron.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Kimble Chimney Santa

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, and where Bowman Wright, Wizarding smith, forged the first Golden Snitch. The graveyard is full of the names of ancient magical families, and this accounts, no doubt, for the stories of hauntings that have dogged the little church beside it for many centuries.'
Yorkshire, and Ottery St. Catchpole on the south coast of England were notable to knots of Wizarding families who lived alongside tolerant and sometimes Confunded Muggles. Most celebrated of these half-magical dwelling places is, perhaps, Godric's Hollow, the West Country village where the great wizard Godric Gryffindor was born
   "You and your parents aren't mentioned." Hermione said, closing the book, "because Professor Bagshot doesn't cover anything later than the end of the nineteenth century. But you see? Godric's Hollow, Godric Gryffindor, Gryffindor's sword; don't you think Dumbledore would have expected you to make the connection?"

Monday, November 17, 2008

Claude Monet The Red Boats Argenteuil painting

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Seal the exit! SEAL IT!"

   Yaxley had burst out of another lift and was running toward the group beside the fireplaces, into which all of the Muggle-borns but Mrs. Cattermole had now vanished. As the balding wizard lifted his wand, Harry raised an enormous fist and punched him, sending him flying through the air.
Harry saw Yaxley's head turn, saw an inkling of truth dawn on that brutish face.    "Come on!" Harry shouted at Hermione; he seized her hand and they
"He's been helping Muggle-borns escape, Yaxley!" Harry shouted.

   The balding wizard's colleagues set up and uproar, under cover of which Ron grabbed Mrs. Cattermole, pulled her into the still-open fireplace, and disappeared. Confused, Yaxley looked from Harry to the punched wizard, while the real Reg Cattermole screamed, "My wife! Who was that with my wife? What's going on?"

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting

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was not I who killed you, Albus," said a quiet voice.

   The jinx broke: The dust-figure exploded again, and it was impossible to make out the newcomer through the dense gray cloud it left behind.
  Ron and Hermione came crashing down the stairs behind Harry, wands pointing, like his, at the unknown man now standing with his arms raised in the hall below. "Hold your fire, it's me, Remus!"    "Oh, thank goodness," said Hermione weakly, pointing her wand at
Harry pointed the wand into the middle of it.

"Don't move!"

   He had forgotten the portrait of Mrs. Black: At the sound of his yell, the curtains hiding her flew open and she began to scream, "Mudbloods and filth dishonoring my house –"

 

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Vincent van Gogh Wheat Fields painting

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know what the symbol means, the Lovegoods are quite… unusual. He could have easily picked it up somewhere and think it's a cross section of the head of a Crumple-Horned Snorkack or something."

"The cross section of a vot?"

for them…."

Harry felt he was doing a bad job explaining Luna and her father.

   "That's her," he said, pointing at Luna, who was still dancing alone, waving her arms around her head like someone attempting to beat off midges.

"Vy is she doing that?" asked Krum.

   "Probably trying to get rid of a Wrackspurt," said Harry, who recognized the symptoms.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

William Blake Los painting

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think Mum thinks that if she can stop the three of you getting together and planning, she'll be able to delay you leaving," Ginny told Harry in an undertone, as they laid the table for dinner on the third night of his stay.

   "And then what does she think's going to happen?" Harry muttered. "Someone else might kill off Voldemort while she's holding us here making vol-au-vents?"

He had spoken without thinking, and saw Ginny's face whiten.

"So it's true?" she said. "That's what you're trying to do?"

"I – not – I was joking," said Harry evasively.

   They stared at each other, and there was something more than shock in Ginny's expression. Suddenly Harry became aware that this was the first time that he had been alone with her since those stolen hours in secluded corners of the Hogwarts grounds. He was sure she was remembering them too

Jose Royo paintings

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