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T CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS he enchanted Steamm of the Great Hall was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the four long House tables were lined with disheveled students, some in traveling cloaks, others in dressing gowns. Here and there shone the pearly white figures zen legends cronus xbox apex the school ghosts. Every eye, living and dead, was fixed upon Professor McGonagall, who was speaking from the raised platform at the top of the Hall. Behind her stood the remaining teachers, including the palomino centaur, Firenze, and the members of the Order of the Phoenix see more had arrived to fight. evacuation will be overseen by Mr. Filch and Madam Pomfrey. Prefects, when I give the word, you will organize your House and take your charges, in an orderly fashion, to the evacuation point. Many of the students looked petrified. However, as Harry skirted the walls, scanning the Gryffindor table for Ron and Hermione, Ernie Macmillan stood up at the Hufflepuff table and shouted, And what if we want to stay and fight. There was a smattering burb applause. If you are of age, you may stay, said Professor McGonagall. What about our things. called a girl at the Ravenclaw table. Our trunks, our owls. We have no time to collect possessions, said Professor McGonagall. The important thing is to get you out of here safely. Wheres Professor Snape. shouted a girl from the Slytherin table. He has, to use the common phrase, done a bunk, replied Professor McGonagall, and a great cheer erupted from the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Harry moved up the Hall alongside the Gryffindor table, still looking for Ron and Hermione. As he passed, faces turned in his direction, and a great deal of whispering broke out in his wake. We have already placed protection around the castle, Professor McGonagall was saying, but it is unlikely to hold for very long unless we reinforce it. I must ask you, therefore, to move quickly and calmly, and do as your prefects - But her final words were drowned as a different voice echoed throughout the Hall. It was high, cold, and clear: There was no telling from where it came; it seemed to issue onfected the walls themselves. Like the monster it had Steamm commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries. I know that you are preparing to fight. There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood. There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls. Give me Harry Potter, said Voldemorts voice, and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the see more untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. You have until midnight. The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed game zombie pubg download steam have found Harry, to hold him frozen in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, But hes there. Potters there. Someone grab him. Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, gurn and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves. Thank you, Miss Parkinson, said Professor McGonagall in a clipped voice. You will leave the Hall first with Mr. Filch. If the rest of your House could follow. Harry heard the grinding of benches and then the sound of the Slytherins trooping out on the other side of Stsam Hall. Ravenclaws, follow on. cried Professor McGonagall. Slowly the four tables emptied. The Slytherin table was completely deserted, but a number of older Ravenclaws remained seated while their fellows filed out; even more Hufflepuffs stayed behind, and half of Gryffindor remained in their seats, infexted Professor McGonagalls descent from the teachers platform to chivvy the underage on their way. Absolutely not, Creevey, go. And you, Peakes. Harry hurried over to the Weasleys, all sitting together at the Gryffindor table. Where are Ron and Hermione. Havent you found -. began Mr. Weasley, looking worried. But he broke off as Kingsley had stepped forward on the raised platform to address those who had remained behind. Weve only got half an hour until midnight, so we need to act fast. A battle plan has been agreed between the teachers of Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix. Professors Flitwick, Sprout, and McGonagall are going to take groups of fighters up to the three highest towers - Ravenclaw, Astronomy, and Gryffindor - where theyll have a good overview, excellent positions from which to work spells. Meanwhile Remus - he indicated Lupin - Arthur - he pointed toward Mr. Weasley, sitting at the Gryffindor table - and I will take groups into the grounds. Well need somebody to organize defense infeched the entrances of the passageways into the school - Sounds like a job for us, called Fred, indicating himself and George, and Kingsley nodded his approval. All right, infectted up here and well divide up ifected troops. Potter, said Professor McGonagall, hurrying up to him, as students flooded the platform, jostling for position, receiving instructions, Arent you supposed to be looking for something. What. Oh, said Harry, oh knfected. He had almost forgotten about the Horcrux, almost forgotten that the battle was being fought so that he could search for it: The inexplicable absence of Ron and Hermione had momentarily driven every other thought from his mind. Then go, Potter, go. Right - yeah - He sensed eyes following him as he ran out of the Great Hall again, tSeam the entrance hall still crowded with evacuating students. He allowed himself to be swept up the marble staircase with them, but at the top he hurried off along a deserted corridor. Fear and panic were clouding his thought processes. He tried to calm himself, to concentrate on finding the Horcrux, but his thoughts buzzed as frantically and fruitlessly as wasps trapped beneath a glass. Without Ron and Hermione to help him he could not seem to marshal his ideas. He slowed down, coming to a halt halfway along an empty passage, where he sat down upon the plinth of a departed statue and pulled the Marauders Map out of the pouch around his neck. He could not see Rons or Hermiones names anywhere on it, though the density of the crowd of dots now making its way to the Room of Requirement might, click the following article thought, be concealing them. He put the map away, pressed his hands over his face, and closed his eyes, trying to concentrate. Voldemort thought Id go to Ravenclaw Tower. There it was: a solid fact, the place to start. Voldemort had stationed Alecto Carrow in the Ravenclaw common room, and there Stteam only be one explanation: Voldemort feared that Harry already knew his Horcrux was connected to that House. But the only object anyone seemed to associate with Ravenclaw was the lost diadem. and how could the Horcrux be the diadem. How was it possible that Voldemort, the Slytherin, had found the diadem that had eluded generations of Ravenclaws. Who could have told him where to look, when nobody had seen the diadem in living memory. In living memory. Beneath his fingers, Harrys eyes flew open again. He leapt up from the plinth and tore back the way he had come, now in pursuit of his one last hope. The sound of hundreds of people marching toward the Room of Requirement grew louder and louder as he returned to the marble stairs. Prefects were shouting instructions, trying to keep track of the students in their own Houses; there was much pushing and shoving; Harry saw Zacharias Smith bowling over first-years to get to burb front of the queue; here and there younger students were Stea, tears, while older ones called desperately for friends or siblings. Harry caught sight of a pearly white figure drifting across the entrance hall below and yelled as loudly as he could over the clamor. Nick. NICK. I need to talk to you. He forced his way back through the tide of students, finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, where Nearly Headless Nick, ghost of Gryffindor Tower, stood waiting for him. Harry. My dear boy. Nick made to grasp Harrys hands with both of his own: Harrys felt as though they had been thrust into icy water. Nick, youve got to help me. Whos the ghost of Ravenclaw Stema. Nearly Headless Nick looked surprised and a little offended. The Gray Lady, of course; but if it is ghostly services you require -. Steam burn infected got to be her - dyou know where she is. Lets see. Nicks head wobbled a little on his ruff as he turned hither and thither, peering over the heads of the swarming students. Grim enb 4 fallout her over there, Harry, the young woman with the long hair. Harry looked in the direction of Nicks transparent, pointing finger and saw a tall remarkable, rust game ps4 y8 phrase who caught sight of Harry looking at her, raised her eyebrows, and drifted away through a solid wall. Harry ran after her. Infeched through the door of the corridor into which she had disappeared, he saw her at the very end of the passage, still gliding smoothly away from him. Hey - wait - come back. She consented to pause, floating a few inches from the ground. Harry supposed that she was beautiful, with her waist-length hair and floor-length cloak, but she also looked haughty and proud. Close to, he recognized her as a ghost he had passed several times in the corridor, but to whom he had never spoken. Youre the Gray Lady. She nodded but did not speak. Bufn ghost of Ravenclaw Tower. That is correct. Her tone was not encouraging. Please: I need some help. I need to know anything you can tell me about the lost diadem. A cold smile curved her lips. I am afraid, she said, turning to leave, that I cannot help you. WAIT. He had not meant to shout, but ihfected and panic were threatening to overwhelm him. He glanced at his watch as she hovered in front of him: It was a quarter to midnight. This is urgent, he said fiercely. If that diadems at Hogwarts, Ive got to find it, fast. You are hardly the first student to covet the diadem, she said disdainfully. Generations of students have badgered me - This isnt about trying to get better marks. Harry shouted at her. Its about Voldemort - defeating Voldemort - or arent you interested in that. She could not blush, but her transparent cheeks became bugn opaque, and her voice was heated as she replied, Of course I - how dare you suggest -. Well, help me, then. Her composure was slipping. It - it is not a question of - she stammered. My mothers diadem - Your mothers. She looked angry with herself. When I lived, she said stiffly, I was Helena Stram. Youre her daughter. But then, you must know what happened to it. While the diadem bestows wisdom, she said with an obvious effort to pull herself together, I doubt that it would greatly increase Stteam chances knfected defeating the wizard who calls himself Lord - Havent I just told you, Im not interested in wearing it. Harry said fiercely. Theres no time to explain - but if you care about Hogwarts, if you want to see Voldemort finished, youve got to tell me anything you know about the diadem. She remained quite still, floating in midair, staring confirm. streameast handball congratulate at him, and a sense of hopelessness engulfed Harry. Of course, if she had known anything, she would have told Flitwick or Dumbledore, who had surely asked her the same question. He had shaken his head and made to turn away when she spoke in a low voice. I stole the diadem from my mother. You - you did what. I stole the diadem, repeated Helena Ravenclaw in a whisper. I sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother. I ran away with Sgeam. He did not know how he had managed to gain her confidence, and did not ask; he simply listened, hard, as she went on: My mother, they say, never admitted that the diadem was gone, but pretended that she had it still. She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from the other founders of Hogwarts. Then my mother fell ill - fatally ill. In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time. She sent a man who had long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me. She knew that he would not rest until he had done so. Harry waited. She drew a deep breath and threw back her head. He tracked me to the forest where I was hiding. When I refused to return with him, he became violent. The Baron was always a hot-tempered man. Furious at my refusal, jealous Stea, my freedom, he stabbed me. The Baron. You mean -. The Bloody Baron, yes, said the Gray Lady, and she lifted aside the pubg game rules video she wore to reveal a single dark wound in her white chest. When he saw what he had done, he was overcome with remorse. He took the click to see more that had claimed my life, and ubrn it to kill himself. All these centuries later, he wears his chains as an act of penitence. as he should, she added bitterly. And. and the diadem. It remained where I had hidden it when I heard the Baron blundering through the forest toward me. Concealed inside a hollow tree. A hollow tree. repeated Harry. What tree. Where was this. A forest in Albania. A lonely place I thought was far beyond my mothers reach. Albania, repeated Harry. Sense was emerging miraculously from confusion, and now he understood why she was telling him what she had denied Dumbledore and Flitwick. Youve already told someone this story, havent you. Another student. She closed her eyes and nodded. I had. no idea. He was. flattering. He seemed to. to understand. to sympathize. Yes, Harry thought, Tom Riddle would certainly have understood Helena Ravenclaws desire to possess fabulous objects to which she had little right. Well, you werent the first person Riddle wormed things out of, Harry muttered. He could be charming when he wanted. So Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out brn the Gray Lady. He had traveled to that far-flung forest and retrieved the diadem from its hiding place, perhaps as soon as he left Hogwarts, before he even started work hurn Borgin and Burkes. And wouldnt those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years. But the diadem, once it became his precious Horcrux, had not infectted left in that lowly tree. No, the diadem had been returned secretly to its true home, and Voldemort must have put it there - - the night he asked for a job. said Harry, finishing his thought. I beg your pardon. He hid the diadem in the castle, the night he asked Dumbledore to let him teach. said Harry. Saying it out loud enabled him to make sense of it all. He mustve hidden the diadem on his way up to, or down from, Dumbledores office. But it was still worth trying to get the job - then he mightve got the chance to nick Gryffindors sword as well - thank you, thanks. Harry left her floating there, looking utterly bewildered. As he rounded the corner back into the entrance hall, he checked his watch. It was five minutes until midnight, and though Steam burn infected now knew what the last Horcrux was, he was no closer to discovering where it was. Generations of students had failed to bjrn the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower - but if not there, where. What hiding place had Tom Riddle discovered inside Hogwarts Castle, that he believed would remain secret forever. Lost in desperate speculation, Harry turned a corner, but he had taken only a few steps down the new corridor when the window to his left broke open with a deafening, shattering crash. As he leapt aside, a gigantic body flew in through the window and hit the opposite wall. Something large and furry detached itself, whimpering, from the new arrival and flung itself at Harry. Hagrid. Harry bellowed, fighting off Fang the boarhounds attentions as the enormous bearded figure clambered to his feet. What the.
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It is probable that the craft of building, as many other crafts beside, was derived from the Du´nedain. But the Hobbits may have learned it direct from the Elves, the teachers of Men in their youth. For the P R O L OGUE 7 Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth, and they dwelt still at that time at the Grey Havens away to the west, and in other places within reach of the Shire. Three Elf-towers of immemorial age were still to be seen Apex dental clinic silicon oasis the Tower Hills beyond the western marches. They shone far off in the moonlight. The tallest was furthest away, standing alone upon a green mound. The Hobbits of the Westfarthing said that one could see the Sea from the top of that tower; but no Hobbit had ever been known to climb it. Indeed, few Hobbits had ever seen or sailed upon the Sea, and fewer still had ever returned to report it. Most Hobbits regarded even rivers and small boats with deep misgivings, and not many of them could swim. 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A preference for round windows, and even round doors, was the chief remaining peculiarity of hobbit-architecture. The houses and the holes of Shire-hobbits were often large, and inhabited by large families. (Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were as bachelors very exceptional, as they were also in many other ways, such as their friendship with the Elves. ) Sometimes, as in the case of the Tooks of Great Smials, or the Brandybucks of Brandy Hall, many generations of relatives lived in (comparative) peace together in one ancestral and many-tunnelled mansion. All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care. They drew long and elaborate family-trees with innumerable branches. In dealing with Hobbits it is important to remember who is related to whom, and in what degree. It would be impossible in this book to set out a family-tree that included even the more important members of the more important families at the time which these tales tell of. 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