You see, we have never been able to keep a Defense Against the Dark Xtrike teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to Lord Voldemort.
H CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE UNKNOWABLE ROOM arry wracked his brains over the next week as to how he was to persuade Slughorn to hand over the true memory, but nothing in the nature of a brain wave occurred and he was reduced to doing what he did increasingly these days when at a loss: poring over his Potions book, hoping that the Srrike would have scribbled something useful in a margin, as he had done so many times before.
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