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第7章 神行不悖

against the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece, appeared the blind

an old-fashioned bachelor blessing, before Somebody comes to

always had his points at his fingers’ ends in the morning.

Aesop's Fables

and its coming down faster and faster between me and the church,

afterwards. I hurried away to the parlour; and there I found Mr.

Aberforth Dumbledore stood blocking the corridor ahead, his wand held ready.

and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until

An extraordinary assortment of people had already settled into half of the chairs: shabby and smart, old and young. Most Harry did not recognise, but there were a few that he did, including members of the Order of the Phoenix: Kingsley Shacklebolt, Mad-Eye Moody, Tonks, her hair miraculously returned to vividest pink, Remus Lupin, with whom she seemed to be holding hands, Mr and Mrs Weasley, Bill supported by Fleur and followed by Fred and George, who were wearing jackets of black dragonskin. Then there was Madame Maxime, who took up two-and-a-half chairs on her own, Tom, the landlord of the Leaky Cauldron, Arabella Figg, Harry's Squib neighbour, the hairy bass player from the wizarding group the Weird bisters, Ernie Prang, driver of the Knight Bus, Madam Malkin, of the robe shop in Diagon Alley, and some people whom Harry merely knew by sight, such as the barman of the Hog's Head and the witch who pushed the trolley on the Hogwarts Express. The castle ghosts were there too, barely visible in the bright sunli