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| Harry, Ron and Hermione had always known that Hagrid had an unfortunate liking for large and monstrous creatures. | |
| 'Ron!' breathed Harry, creeping to the window and pushing it up so they could talk through the bars. | |
| Harry spent a lot of time over the next few days dodging out of sight whenever he saw Gilderoy Lockhart coming down a corridor. | |
| 'All those times we were in that bathroom, and she was just three toilets away.' | |
| Harry woke up on Sunday morning to find the dormitory blazing with winter sunlight and his arm re-boned but very stiff. | |
| Since the disastrous episode of the pixies, Professor Lockhart had not brought live creatures to class. | |
| Hermione remained in the hospital wing for several weeks. | |
| He was standing at the end of a very long, dimly-lit chamber. | |
| 'What's going on here? What's going on?' | |
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| They stepped off the stone staircase at the top, and Professor McGonagall rapped on the door. | |
| The next day, however, Harry barely grinned once. | |
| Harry managed not to shout out, but it was a close thing. | |
| For a moment, there was silence as Harry, Ron, Ginny and Lockhart stood in the doorway, covered in muck and slime and (in Harry's case) blood. | |
| Life at The Burrow was as different as possible from life on Privet Drive. | |
| October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. | |
| The end of the summer holidays came too quickly for Harry's liking. | |
| Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive. | |
| Summer was creeping over the grounds around the castle; sky and lake alike turned periwinkle blue and flowers as large as cabbages burst into bloom in the greenhouses. | |
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