Harry remembered only too well the occasion when Ron's old wand had snapped.

It had happened when the car the two of them had been flying to Hogwarts had crashed into a tree on the school grounds. We'll be back about a week before term
starts and we'll be going up to London to get my wand and our new books. Any chance of meeting you there?FIFTEENWe weren't trying to hear him! said Ron indignantly. We didn't have any choice! The stupid prat, talking about his giantess
mother where anyone could have heard him! We've got to go and see him, said Harry. This evening, after Divination. Tell him we want him back you do want him back? he shot at Hermione.He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who
had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time. His jeans were torn and dirty, his T-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the uppers. Harry Potter's
appearance did not endear him to the neighbors, who were the sort of people who thought scruffiness ought to be punishable by law, but as he had hidden himself behind a large hydrangea bush this evening he was quite invisible to passersby.
In fact, the only way he would be spotted was if his Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia stuck their heads out of the living room window and looked straight down into the flower bed below.I'm aware of that, Potter, she said. The champions' families are
invited to watch the final task, you know. This is simply a chance for you to greet them. She moved away. Harry gaped after her.A Nimbus Two Thousand! Ron moaned enviously. I've never evenAnd then an unearthly and beautiful sound filled
the air.... It was coming from every thread of the light-spun web vibrating around Harry and Voldemort. It was a sound Harry recognized, though he had heard it only once before in his life: phoenix song.Well, I've bin doin' some readin', said
Hagrid, pulling a large book from under his pillow. Got this outta the library - Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit - it's a bit outta date, o' course, but it's all in here. Keep the egg in the fire, 'cause their mothers breathe on 'em, see, an' when it
hatches, feed it on a bucket o' brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. An' see hereI'm back in the country and well hidden. I want you to keep me posted on everything that's going on at Hogwarts. Don't use Hedwig, keep changing
owls, and don't worry about me, just watch out for yourself. Don't forget what I said about your scar. Why d'you have to keep changing owls? Ron asked in a low voice.The portrait swung open and he climbed through the hole into the common
room. It was full of chattering first and second years, and a few older students, who had obviously visited Hogsmeade so often the novelty had worn off.Professor - please - You can't - Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. Now get back to
bed, all of you. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students. A hundred and fifty points lost. That put Gryffindor in last place. In one night, they'd ruined any chance Gryffindor had had for the House Cup. Harry felt as though the bottom
had dropped out of his stomach. How could they ever make up for this?
 Even Hagrid was adding to their workload. The Blast-Ended Skrewts were growing at a remarkable pace given that nobody had yet discovered what they ate. Hagrid was delighted, and as part of their project, suggested
that they come down to his hut on alternate evenings to observe the skrewts and make notes on their extraordinary behavior.Vell, ve have a castle also, not as big as this, nor as comfortable, I am thinking, he was telling Hermione. Ve
have just four floors, and the fires are lit only for magical purposes. But ve have grounds larger even than these - though in vinter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them. But in summer ve are flying every day, over the
lakes and the mountains - Now, now, Viktor! said Karkaroff with a laugh that didn't reach his cold eyes, don't go giving away anything else, now, or your charming friend will know exactly where to find us! Dumbledore smiled, his eyes
twinkling. Igor, all this secrecy... one would almost think you didn't want visitors. Well, Dumbledore, said Karkaroff, displaying his yellowing teeth to their fullest extent, we are all protective of our private domains, are we not? Do we not
jealously guard the halls of learning that have been entrusted to us? Are we not right to be proud that we alone know our school's secrets, and right to protect them? Oh I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets,
Igor, said Dumbledore amicably. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent
collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five-thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at
the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder. Harry snorted into his plate of goulash. Percy frowned, but Harry could have sworn Dumbledore had given him a very small wink.Harry hesitated, thinking... and
then his curiosity got the better of him. He turned and set off in the opposite direction toward the nearest staircase. He was going to see what Crouch was up to.Ah, you're awake! she said briskly. She placed the chocolate on Harry's
bedside table and began breaking it apart with a small hammer.He asked me right after he'd pulled me out of the lake, Hermione muttered. After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blankets and then he sort
of pulled me away from the judges so they wouldn't hear, and he said, if I wasn't doing anything over the summer, would I like to - And what did you say? said Ron, who had picked up his pestle and was grinding it on the desk, a good
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imagined it IIt was a sea of pointed black hats; each of the long House tables was lined with students, their faces glimmering by the light of thousands of candles, which were floating over the tables in midair. Professor Flitwick, who
Fudge suspects Dad, he knows he's friendly with Dumbledore, and he's always thought
was a tiny little wizard with a shock of white hair, was carrying an ancient hat and a four-legged stool out of the hall.Just answer no.... Dad's a bit of a weirdo because of his Muggle obsession - But what's this got
to do with Percy? asked Harry, confused.But then I saw Peter in that picture I realized he was at Hogwarts withI still can't work out how you two got the best-looking
girls in the year, muttered Dean.What - what are you doing? said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret's progress through the air.Yes Harry
pulled himself up on one of the desks and leaned against it.They marched in silence around a corner and she stopped before a large and extremely ugly stone
gargoyle.