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第1章 恭迎老祖归位

The house-elf had come dashing back into the room carrying a tray of little cakes, which she set at her mistress's elbow.

The coaches were no longer horseless. There were creatures standing between the carriage shafts. If he had had to give them a name, he supposed he would have called them horses, though there was something reptilian about them, too. They were completely fleshless, their black coats clinging to their skeletons, of which every bone was visible. Their heads were dragonish, and their pupil-less eyes white and staring. Wings sprouted from each wither—vast, black leathery wings that looked as though they ought to belong to giant bats. Standing still and quiet in the gathering gloom, the creatures looked eerie and sinister. Harry could not understand why the coaches were being pulled by these horrible horses when they were quite capable of moving along by themselves.

the combined result of their whispered repetitions.

the future I propose to myself?”

that she were An open et cetera, thou a pop'rin pear! Romeo, good night.

The class all shook their heads.

surgery; reading some book that was new to me, with the smell of

The battle still raged inside his head: Ginny or Ron? Sometimes he thought that the post-Lavender Ron might not mind too much if he asked Ginny out, but then he remembered Ron's expression when he had seen her kissing Dean, and was sure that Ron would consider it base treachery if Harry so much as held her hand...

The cat sh--shh--shimmied up the tree and crept st--stel--stealthily