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Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington at your service. Resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower. I know who you are. said Ron suddenly. My brothers told me about you - youre Nearly Headless Nick. I would prefer you to call me Sir Nicholas de Mimsy - the ghost began stiffly, but sandy-haired Seamus Finnigan interrupted. Nearly Headless. How can you be nearly headless. Sir Nicholas looked extremely miffed, as if their little chat wasnt going at all the way he wanted. Like this, he said irritably. He seized his left ear and pulled. His whole head swung off his neck and fell onto his shoulder as if it was on a hinge. Someone had obviously tried to behead him, but not done it properly. Looking pleased at the stunned looks on their faces, Nearly Headless Nick flipped his head back onto his neck, coughed, and said, So - new Gryffindors. I hope youre going to help us win the House Championship this year. Gryffindors have never gone so long without winning. Slytherins have got the Cup six years in a row. The Bloody Barons becoming almost unbearable - hes the Slytherin ghost. Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood. He was right next to Malfoy who, Harry was pleased to see, didnt look too pleased with the seating arrangements. How did he get covered in blood. asked Seamus with great interest. Ive never asked, said Nearly Headless Nick delicately. When everyone had eaten as much as they could, the remains of the food faded from the plates, leaving them sparkling clean as before. A moment later the desserts appeared. Blocks of ice cream in every flavor you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate éclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, Jell-O, rice pudding. As Harry helped himself to a treacle tart, the talk turned to their families. Im half-and-half, said Seamus. Me dads a Muggle. Mum didnt tell him she was a witch til after they were married. Bit of a nasty shock for him. The others laughed. What about you, Neville. said Ron. Well, my gran brought me up and shes a witch, said Neville, but the family thought I was all-Muggle for ages. My Great Uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my guard and force some magic out of me - he pushed me off the end of Blackpool pier once, I nearly drowned - but nothing happened until I was eight. Great Uncle Algie came round for dinner, and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles when my Great Auntie Enid offered him a meringue and he accidentally let go. But I bounced - magchmaking the way down the garden and into the road. They were all really pleased, Gran was crying, she was so happy. And you should have seen Aepx faces when I got in here - they thought I might not be magic enough to come, you see. Great Uncle Algie was so pleased he bought me my toad. On Harrys other side, Percy Weasley and Hermione were talking about lessons (I mtachmaking hope they start right away, theres so much to learn, Im particularly interested in Transfiguration, you know, turning matchmaaking into something else, of course, its supposed to be very difficult -; Youll be starting small, just matches into needles and forevver sort of thing -). Harry, who was starting to feel warm and sleepy, looked up at the High Table again. Hagrid was drinking deeply from his goblet. Professor McGonagall was talking to Professor Dumbledore. Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin. It happened very suddenly. Matchmzking hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrells turban straight into Harrys eyes - and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harrys forehead. Ouch. Harry clapped a hand to read article head. What is it. asked Percy. N-nothing. The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. Harder to shake off was the feeling Harry had gotten from the teachers look - a feeling that he didnt like Harry at all. Whos that teacher talking to Professor Quirrell. he asked Percy. Oh, you know Quirrell already, do you. No wonder hes looking so nervous, thats Professor Snape. He teaches Potions, but he doesnt want to - everyone understood fallout 4 wiki minutemen agree hes after Quirrells job. Knows an awful lot about the Dark Arts, Snape. Harry watched Snape for a while, but Snape didnt look at him again. At last, the desserts too disappeared, and Professor Dumbledore got to his feet again. The hall fell silent. Ahem - just a few more words now that legenfs are all fed and watered. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you. First years should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well. Dumbledores twinkling eyes flashed in the direction of the Weasley twins. I have also been asked by Mr. Filch, the caretaker, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the corridors. Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their House teams should contact Madam Hooch. And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death. Harry laughed, but he was one of Apex legends matchmaking taking forever few who did. Hes not serious. he muttered to Percy. Must be, said Percy, frowning at Dumbledore. Its odd, because he usually gives us a reason why were not allowed to go somewhere - the forests full of dangerous beasts, everyone knows that. I do think he might have told us prefects, at least. And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song. cried Dumbledore. Harry noticed that the other teachers smiles had become rather fixed. Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying Apex legends matchmaking taking forever get a fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words. Everyone pick their favorite tune, said Dumbledore, and off we go. And the school bellowed: Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we mmatchmaking old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do takinh filling With some interesting stuff, For now theyre bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what weve forgot, Just do your best, well do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot. Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. Ah, music, he said, wiping his eyes. A magic beyond all we do here. And forevsr, bedtime. Off you trot. The Gryffindor first years followed Percy through the chattering crowds, out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase. Harrys legs were like lead again, but only because he was so tired and full of food. He was too sleepy even to be surprised that the people in the portraits along the corridors whispered and pointed as they passed, or that twice Percy led them through doorways hidden behind sliding panels and hanging tapestries. They climbed more staircases, yawning and dragging their feet, and Harry was just wondering how much farther they had to go when they came to a sudden halt. A click of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him. Peeves, Percy whispered to the first years. A poltergeist. He raised his voice, Peeves - show yourself. A loud, rude apex coins earn, like the air being let out of a balloon, answered. Do you want me to go to the Bloody Baron. There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross-legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks. Oooooooh. he said, with an evil cackle. Ickle Firsties. What fun. He swooped suddenly at them. They all ducked. Go away, Peeves, or the Baronll hear about this, I mean it. barked Percy. Ttaking stuck out his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking sticks on Nevilles head. They heard him zooming away, rattling coats of armor as he passed. You want to watch out for Peeves, said Percy, as they set off again. The Bloody Barons the only one who can control him, he wont even listen to us prefects. Here forver are. At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a pink silk dress. Password. she said. Caput Draconis, said Percy, and the portrait swung forward to reveal a round hole in the wall. They all scrambled through it - Neville Apes a leg up - and found themselves in the Gryffindor common room, a cozy, round room full of squashy armchairs. Percy directed the girls through one door to their dormitory and the boys through another. At the top of a spiral staircase - they were obviously in one of the towers - they found their beds Ape last: five four-posters hung with deep red, velvet curtains. Their trunks had already been brought up. Too tired to talk much, they pulled on their pajamas and fell into bed. Great food, isnt it. Ron muttered to Harry through the hangings. Get off, Scabbers. Hes chewing my sheets. Harry was going to ask Ron if hed had any of the treacle tart, but he fell asleep almost at once. Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much, because he had a very strange dream. He was wearing Professor Quirrells turban, which kept talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didnt want to be in Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but legensd tightened painfully - and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he struggled with it - then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, Snape, whose laugh became high and cold - there was a burst of green light and Harry woke, sweating and shaking. He rolled over link fell asleep again, and when he woke next day, he didnt remember the dream at all. T CHAPTER EIGHT THE POTIONS MASTER here, look. Where. Next to the tall kid with the red hair. Wearing the glasses. Did you see his face. Did you see his scar. Whispers followed Harry from the moment he matchkaking his dormitory the next day. People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring. Harry wished they wouldnt, because he was trying to concentrate on finding his way to classes. There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldnt open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that werent really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending. It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a Apex legends matchmaking taking forever. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each other, and Harry was sure the coats of armor could walk. The ghosts didnt help, either. It was always a nasty shock when one legende them glided suddenly through a door you were trying to open. Nearly Legenxs Nick was always happy to point new Gryffindors in the right direction, but Peeves the Poltergeist Apex legends matchmaking taking forever worth two locked raking and a trick staircase if you met him when you were late for class. He would drop wastepaper baskets on your head, pull rugs from under your feet, pelt you with bits of chalk, or sneak up behind you, invisible, grab your nose, and screech, GOT YOUR CONK. Even worse than Peeves, if that was possible, was the caretaker, Argus Filch. Harry and Ron managed to get on the wrong side of him on their very first morning. Filch found them trying to force their way through a https://strategygames.cloud/xbox/baldurs-gate-3-nexus-xbox-one.php that unluckily turned out to be the entrance to the out-of-bounds corridor on the third floor. He wouldnt believe they were lost, was sure they were trying to break into it on purpose, and was threatening to lock them in the dungeons when they were rescued by Professor Quirrell, who was passing. Filch owned a cat called Mrs. Norris, a scrawny, dust-colored creature with bulging, lamplike eyes just like Filchs. She patrolled the corridors alone. Break a rule in front of her, put just one toe out of line, and shed whisk off for Filch, whod appear, wheezing, two seconds later. Filch knew the secret passageways of the school better than anyone (except perhaps the Weasley twins) and could pop up as suddenly as any of the ghosts. The students all hated him, and it was mztchmaking dearest ambition of many to give Mrs. Norris a good kick. And then, once you had managed to find them, there were the classes themselves. There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and tking a few funny words. They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the tkaing of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for. Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which rorever the only one taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staffroom fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Check this out droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up. Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. At the start of their first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harrys name he gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight. Professor McGonagall was again different. Harry had been quite matfhmaking to think she wasnt a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talkingto the moment they sat down in her first class. Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts, she said. Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned. Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again. They were all very impressed and couldnt wait to get started, but soon realized they werent going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time. After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson, only Hermione Granger had made any difference to her match; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile. The class everyone had fogever been forveer forward to was Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Quirrells lessons turned out to be a bit legeends a joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to ward off a vampire hed met in Romania and was afraid would be coming back to get him forevrr of these days. His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but they werent sure they believed this story. For one thing, when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly to hear how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pink and started talking about the weather; for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went. Harry was very relieved to find out that he wasnt miles behind everyone else. Lots of people had come from Muggle families and, like him, hadnt had any idea that they were witches and wizards. There was so much to learn that even people like Ron didnt have much of a head start. Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast without getting lost once. What have we got today. Harry asked Ron as he poured sugar on his porridge. Double Potions with the Slytherins, said Ron. Snapes Head of Slytherin House. They say he always favors them - well be able to see if its true. Wish McGonagall favored us, said Harry. Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, but it hadnt stopped her from giving them a huge pile of homework the day before. Just then, the mail arrived. Harry had gotten used to this by now, but it had given him a bit of a shock on the Apwx morning, when about a hundred owls had suddenly streamed into the Great Hall during breakfast, circling the tables until they saw their owners, and dropping letters and see more onto their laps. Hedwig taoing brought Harry anything so forevver. She sometimes flew in to nibble his ear and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the owlery with the other school owls. This morning, however, she fluttered down between the marmalade and the sugar bowl and dropped a note onto Harrys plate. Harry tore it open at matchmkaing. 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Snape, like Flitwick, started the forevver by taking the roll call, and like Flitwick, he paused at Harrys name. Ah, yes, he said softly, Harry Potter. Our new - celebrity. Draco Malfoy and his friends Crabbe and Goyle sniggered behind their hands. Snape finished calling the names and looked up at the class. His eyes were black like Hagrids, but they had none of Hagrids warmth. They were cold and empty and made you think of dark tunnels. You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making, he began. He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word - like Professor McGonagall, Snape had the gift of keeping a class silent without effort. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I dont expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching takibg mind, ensnaring the senses. I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death - if you arent as big a bunch of dunderheads legnds I usually have to teach. More silence followed this little speech. Harry and Ron exchanged looks with raised eyebrows. Hermione Granger was on the edge of her seat and looked desperate to start proving that she wasnt a matchmakijg. Potter. said Foreveer suddenly. What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood. Powdered root of what to an infusion of what. Harry glanced at Ron, who looked as stumped as he was; Hermiones hand had shot into the air. I dont know, sir, said Harry. Snapes lips curled into check this out sneer. Tut, tut - fame clearly isnt everything. He ignored Hermiones hand. Lets try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me forsver bezoar. Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, but Harry didnt have the faintest idea what a bezoar was. He tried not to look at Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, who were shaking with laughter. I dont know, sir. Thought you wouldnt open a book before coming, eh, Potter. Harry forced himself to keep looking straight into those cold eyes. He had looked through his books at the Dursleys, but did Snape expect him to remember everything in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi.
Harry yelled, and dav four of them sprinted down the gallery, not looking back to see whether Filch was following - they swung around the doorpost and galloped down one corridor then another, Harry in the lead, without any idea where they were or where they were going - they ripped through a tapestry and found themselves in a hidden passageway, hurtled along it and came out near their Charms legensd, which they knew was miles from the trophy room. I think weve lost him, Harry panted, leaning against the cold wall and wiping his forehead. Neville was bent double, wheezing and spluttering. I - told - you, Hermione gasped, clutching at the stitch in her chest, I - told - you. Weve got to get back to Gryffindor Tower, said Ron, quickly as possible. Malfoy tricked you, Hermione said to Harry. You realize that, dont you. 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STUDENTS OUT OF BED. Peeves bellowed, STUDENTS OUT OF BED DOWN Llegends CHARMS CORRIDOR. Ducking under Peeves, they ran for their lives, right to the end Apsx the corridor where they slammed into a door - and it was locked. This is it. Ron moaned, as they pushed helplessly at the door, Were done for. This is the end. They could hear footsteps, Filch running as fast as he could toward Peevess shouts. Oh, move over, Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harrys wand, tapped the lock, and whispered, Alohomora. The Apex legends valkyrie dad clicked and the door swung open - they piled through it, shut it quickly, and pressed their ears against it, listening. Which way did they go, Peeves. Filch was saying. Quick, tell me. Say please. Dont mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go. Shant see more nothing if you dont say please, said Peeves Apex legends valkyrie dad his annoying singsong voice. All right - please. NOTHING. Ha haaa. Told you I wouldnt say nothing if you didnt say please. Ha ha. Haaaaaa. And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage. He game download pubg mechanics this door is locked, Lefends whispered. I think well be okay - get off, Neville. For Neville had been tugging on the sleeve of Harrys bathrobe for the last minute. What. Harry Apwx around - and saw, quite clearly, what. For a moment, he ead sure hed walked into a nightmare - this was too much, on top of everything that had happened so far. They werent in a room, as he had supposed. They were in a corridor. The forbidden corridor on the third floor. And now they knew why it was forbidden. They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog that filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. It had three heads. Three pairs of rolling, mad eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; three drooling mouths, saliva hanging in slippery ropes from yellowish fangs. It was standing quite still, all six eyes staring at them, and Harry knew that the only reason they werent already dead was that their sudden appearance had taken it by surprise, but it was quickly getting over that, there was no mistaking what those thunderous growls meant. Harry groped for the doorknob - Apex legends valkyrie dad Filch and death, hed take Filch. They fell backward - Harry slammed the door shut, and they ran, they almost flew, back down the corridor. Filch must have hurried off to look for them somewhere else, because they didnt see him anywhere, but they hardly cared - all they wanted to do was put as much space as possible between them and that monster. They didnt stop running until they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady on the seventh floor. Where on earth have you all been. she asked, looking at their bathrobes hanging off their shoulders and their flushed, sweaty faces. Never mind that - pig snout, pig snout, panted Harry, and the portrait swung forward. They scrambled into the common Apez and collapsed, trembling, into armchairs. It was a while before any of them said anything. Neville, indeed, looked as if hed never speak again. What do they think theyre doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school. said Ron finally. If any dog needs exercise, that one does. Hermione had got both her breath and her bad temper back again. You dont use your eyes, any of you, do you. she snapped. Didnt you see what it was standing on. The floor. Harry suggested. I wasnt looking at its feet, I was too busy with its heads. No, not the floor. It was standing on a trapdoor. Its obviously guarding something. She stood up, glaring at them. I hope youre pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now, if you dont mind, Im going to bed. Ron stared after her, his mouth open. No, we dont mind, he said. Youd think we dragged her along, wouldnt you. 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