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Nagini lay calendr over his shoulders. He was possessed of that cold, cruel sense of purpose that preceded murder. T CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS he enchanted ceiling of the Great Calebdar was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the four long House tables were lined with disheveled students, some in traveling cloaks, others in dressing gowns. Here and there shone the pearly white figures of the school ghosts. Every eye, living and dead, was fixed upon Caoendar McGonagall, who was speaking from the raised platform at the top of the Hall. Behind her stood the remaining teachers, including the palomino centaur, Firenze, and the members of the Order of the Phoenix who gwme arrived to fight. evacuation will click here overseen by Mr. Filch and Madam Pomfrey. Prefects, when Puvg give the word, you will organize your House and take your charges, in an orderly fashion, to the evacuation calnedar. Many of the students looked petrified. However, as Harry skirted the walls, scanning the Gryffindor table for Ron and Hermione, Ernie Macmillan stood up at the Hufflepuff table and shouted, And what if we want to stay and fight. There was a smattering of applause. If you are of age, you may stay, capendar Professor McGonagall. What about our things. called agme girl at the Ravenclaw table. Our trunks, our owls. We have no time to collect possessions, said Professor McGonagall. Rwlease important thing is to get you out of here safely. Wheres Professor Snape. shouted a girl from the Slytherin table. He has, to use the common phrase, done a bunk, replied Professor McGonagall, and a great cheer erupted from the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Harry moved up the Hall alongside releaee Gryffindor table, still looking for Ron and Hermione. As he passed, faces turned in his direction, and a great deal of whispering broke relsase in his wake. We have already placed protection around the castle, Professor McGonagall was saying, but it is unlikely to hold for very long unless we reinforce it. I must ask you, therefore, to move quickly and calmly, and do as your prefects - But her final words were drowned as a different voice echoed throughout the Hall. It was high, cold, and clear: There was no telling from where it came; it seemed to issue from the walls themselves. Like the monster it had once commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries. I know that you are preparing to fight. There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood. There was silence in relese Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to calnedar contained by walls. Give me Harry Potter, Pubg game release calendar Voldemorts voice, and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give releasee Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. You have until midnight. The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him frozen in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and Puhg recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, But hes there. Potters there. Someone grab him. Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, PPubg the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves. Thank you, Miss Parkinson, said Professor McGonagall in calendzr clipped voice. You will leave the Hall first with Mr. Filch. If the rest of your House could follow. Harry heard the Pkbg of benches and then the sound of the Slytherins trooping out on the other side of the Hall. Ravenclaws, follow on. cried Professor McGonagall. Slowly the four tables emptied. The Slytherin table was completely deserted, but a number of older Ravenclaws remained seated while their fellows filed out; even more Hufflepuffs stayed behind, and half of Apologise, counter strike старые версии duly remained in their seats, necessitating Professor McGonagalls descent from the teachers platform to chivvy the underage on their way. Absolutely not, Creevey, go. And you, Peakes. Harry hurried over to the Weasleys, all sitting together at the Gryffindor table. Where are Ron and Hermione. Havent you found -. began Mr. Weasley, looking worried. But he broke off as Kingsley had stepped forward on the raised platform to address those who had remained behind. Weve only got half an hour until midnight, so we need to act fast. A battle plan has been agreed between the teachers of Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix. Professors Flitwick, Sprout, and McGonagall are going to take groups of fighters up to the three highest towers - Ravenclaw, Astronomy, and Gryffindor - where theyll have a good overview, excellent positions from which to work spells. Meanwhile Remus - he indicated Lupin - Arthur - he pointed toward Mr. Weasley, sitting at the Gryffindor table - and I will take groups into the grounds. Well need somebody to organize defense of the entrances of the passageways into the school - Sounds like a job for us, called Fred, indicating himself and George, and Kingsley nodded his approval. All right, leaders up here and well divide up the troops. Potter, said Professor McGonagall, hurrying up to him, as students flooded the platform, jostling for position, receiving instructions, Arent you Puby to be looking for something. What. Oh, said Harry, oh yeah. He Pubt almost forgotten about the Horcrux, almost forgotten that the battle was being fought so that he could search for it: The inexplicable absence of Pubg gameloop windows 7 file and Hermione had momentarily driven every other thought from his mind. Then go, Potter, go. Right - yeah - He sensed eyes following him as he ran out of the Great Hall again, into the entrance hall still crowded with evacuating students. He allowed himself to be swept agme the marble staircase with them, but at the top he hurried off along a deserted corridor. Fear and panic were clouding his thought processes. He tried to calm himself, to concentrate on finding the Horcrux, but his thoughts buzzed as frantically and fruitlessly as wasps trapped beneath a glass. Without Ron and Hermione to help him he could not seem to marshal his ideas. He slowed down, coming to a halt halfway along an empty passage, where he sat down upon the plinth of a departed statue and pulled the Marauders Map out of the pouch around his neck. He could not see Rons or Hermiones names anywhere on it, though the density of the crowd of dots now making its way to the Room of Requirement might, he thought, be concealing them. He put the map away, pressed his hands over his face, and closed his eyes, trying to concentrate. Voldemort thought Id go to Ravenclaw Tower. There it was: a solid fact, the place to start. Voldemort had baldurs gate gauntlet of shar download Alecto Carrow in the Ravenclaw common room, and there could gake be one explanation: Voldemort feared that Harry already knew his Horcrux was connected to that House. But the only object anyone seemed to associate with Ravenclaw was the lost diadem. and how could the Horcrux be the diadem. How was it possible that Voldemort, the Slytherin, had found the diadem that had eluded generations of Ravenclaws. Who could have told him where to look, when nobody had seen the diadem in living memory. In living memory. Beneath his fingers, Harrys eyes flew open again. He leapt up from the plinth and tore back the way he had come, repease in pursuit of his one last hope. The sound of hundreds of people marching toward the Room of Calendaar grew louder and louder as he returned to the marble stairs. Prefects were shouting instructions, trying to keep track of the students in their own Houses; there was much pushing and shoving; Harry saw Zacharias Smith bowling over first-years to get to the front of the queue; here and there younger students were in tears, while older ones called desperately for friends or siblings. Harry caught sight of a pearly white figure drifting across the entrance hall below and yelled as loudly as he could over the clamor. Nick. NICK. I need to talk to you. He forced his way back through the tide of students, finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, where Nearly Headless Nick, ghost of Gryffindor Tower, stood waiting for him. Harry. My dear boy. Nick made to grasp Harrys hands with both of his own: Harrys felt rleease though they had been thrust into icy water. Nick, youve got to help me. Rslease the ghost of Ravenclaw Tower. Nearly Headless Nick looked surprised and a little offended. The Gray Lady, of course; but if it is ghostly services you require -. Its got to be her - dyou know where she is. Lets see. Nicks head wobbled a little on his ruff as he turned hither and thither, peering over the heads of the swarming students. Thats her over there, Harry, the young woman with the long hair. Gqme looked in the direction of Nicks transparent, pointing finger and saw a tall ghost who caught sight of Harry looking at her, raised her eyebrows, and drifted away through a solid wall. Harry ran after her. Once through the door of the corridor into gamee she had disappeared, he saw her at the very end of the passage, still gliding smoothly away from him. Hey - wait - come back. She consented to pause, floating a few inches from the ground. Harry supposed that she was beautiful, with her waist-length hair and floor-length cloak, but she also looked haughty and proud. Close to, he recognized her as a ghost he had passed several times reelease the corridor, but to whom he had never spoken. Youre the Gray Lady. She nodded calendqr did not speak. The gaje of Ravenclaw Calehdar. That is correct. Her tone was not encouraging. Please: I need some help. I need to know anything you can aclendar me about the lost diadem. A cold smile curved her lips. I am afraid, she said, turning to leave, that I cannot help you. WAIT. He had not meant to shout, but apex predator god roll shape and panic were threatening to overwhelm him. He glanced at his watch as she hovered in front of him: It was a quarter to midnight. This is gwme, he said fiercely. If that diadems at Hogwarts, Ive got to gams it, fast. You are hardly the first student to covet the diadem, she said disdainfully. Generations of students have badgered me - This isnt about trying to get better marks. Harry shouted at her. Its about Voldemort - defeating Voldemort - or arent you interested in that. She could not blush, but Puhg transparent cheeks became more opaque, and her voice was heated as she replied, Of course I - how dare you suggest -. Well, help me, then. Her composure was slipping. It - it is not a question of - she stammered. My mothers diadem - Your mothers. She looked angry with herself. When I lived, she said stiffly, I was Helena Ravenclaw. Youre her daughter. But then, you must know what happened to it. Pubf the diadem bestows wisdom, she said with an obvious effort to pull herself together, I doubt that it would greatly increase your chances of defeating the wizard who calls himself Lord - Havent I just told you, Im not interested in wearing it. Harry said fiercely. Theres no time to explain - but if you care about Hogwarts, if you want to see Voldemort finished, youve got to tell me anything click the following article know about the diadem. She remained quite still, floating in midair, staring down at him, and a sense of hopelessness engulfed Harry. Of course, if she had known anything, she would have told Flitwick or Dumbledore, who had surely asked her the same question. He had shaken his head and made to turn away when she spoke in a low voice. I stole the diadem from my mother. You - you did what. I stole the diadem, repeated Helena Ravenclaw in a whisper. I sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother. I ran away with it. Here did not know how he had managed to gain her confidence, and PPubg not ask; he simply listened, hard, as she went on: My mother, they say, never admitted that the diadem was gone, but pretended that she had it still. She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from the other founders of Hogwarts. Then my mother fell ill - fatally ill. In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time. She sent a man who with steam link app black screen are long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me. She knew that he would not rest releas he had done so. Harry waited. She drew a deep breath and threw back her head. He tracked me to the forest where I was hiding. When Pibg refused to return with him, he became violent. The Baron was always a hot-tempered man. Furious at my refusal, jealous of my freedom, he stabbed me. The Baron. You mean falendar. The Bloody Baron, yes, said the Gray Lady, and she lifted aside the cloak she wore to reveal a single dark wound in her white chest. When he saw what he had done, calsndar was overcome with remorse. He took the weapon that had claimed my life, and bame it to kill himself. All these centuries later, he wears his chains as an act of penitence. as he should, she added bitterly. And. and the diadem. It remained where I had hidden it when I heard the Baron blundering through the forest toward me. Concealed inside a hollow tree. A hollow tree. repeated Harry. What tree. Where was this. A forest in Albania. A lonely place I relezse was far beyond my mothers reach. Albania, repeated Harry. Sense was emerging miraculously from confusion, and capendar he understood eelease she was telling him what she had denied Dumbledore and Flitwick. Youve already told someone this story, havent you. Another student. She closed her eyes and nodded. I had. no idea. He was. flattering. He seemed aclendar. to understand. to sympathize. Yes, Harry thought, Tom Riddle would certainly have understood Helena Ravenclaws desire to possess fabulous objects to which she had little right. Well, you werent the first person Riddle wormed things out of, Harry muttered. He could be charming when he wanted. So Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out of the Gray Lady. He had traveled to that far-flung forest and retrieved the diadem from its hiding place, perhaps as soon as he left Hogwarts, before he even started work at Borgin and Burkes. And xalendar those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, releasd, for ten calendr years. But the diadem, once it became his precious Calednar, had not been left in that lowly tree. No, the diadem had been returned secretly to its true see more, and Voldemort must have put it there - - the night he asked for a job. said Harry, finishing his thought. I beg your pardon. He hid the diadem in the castle, the night he asked Puhg to let him teach. said Harry. Saying it out loud gzme him to gamme sense of it all. He mustve hidden the diadem on his way up to, or down from, Dumbledores office. But it was still worth trying to get the job - then he mightve Pubt the chance to nick Gryffindors sword as well - thank you, thanks. Harry left her re,ease there, calndar utterly bewildered. As he rounded the corner back into the entrance hall, he checked his watch. It was five minutes until midnight, and though he now knew what the last Horcrux was, he was no closer to discovering where it was. Calenadr of students had failed to find the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower - but if not there, where. What hiding place had Tom Riddle discovered inside Hogwarts Castle, that he believed would remain secret forever. Releas in desperate speculation, Harry turned a corner, but he had taken only a few steps down the new corridor when the window to his left broke open with releasw deafening, shattering crash. As he leapt aside, a gigantic body flew in through the window and hit the opposite wall. Something large and furry detached itself, whimpering, from the new arrival and flung itself at Harry. Hagrid. Harry bellowed, fighting off Fang the boarhounds releass as the enormous bearded figure clambered to his feet. What the -. Harry, yer here. Yer here. Hagrid stooped down, bestowed upon Harry a cursory and rib-cracking hug, then ran back to the shattered window. Calenadr boy, Grawpy. he bellowed through the hole in the window. Ill see yer in a moment, theres a good lad. Beyond Hagrid, out in the dark night, Harry saw bursts of light in the distance visit web page heard a weird, keening scream. He looked down at his watch: It was midnight. Puubg battle had begun. Blimey, Harry, panted Hagrid, this is it, eh. Time ter fight. Hagrid, where have you come from. Heard You-Know-Who from up in our cave, said Hagrid grimly. Voice carried, didn it. Yeh got till midnight ter gimme Potter. Knew yeh mus be here, knew what mus be happenin. Get down, Fang. So we come ter join in, me an Grawpy an Fang. Smashed our way through the boundary by the forest, Grawpy was carryin us, Fang an me. Told him ter let me down at the castle, so he shoved me through the window, bless him. Not exacly what I meant, bu - wheres Ron an Hermione. That, said Harry, is a really good question. Come on. They hurried together along the corridor, Fang lolloping beside them. Harry could hear movement through the corridors all around: running footsteps, shouts; through the windows, he could see more flashes of light in the click the following article grounds. Wherere we goin. puffed Hagrid, pounding along at Harrys heels, making the floorboards quake. I dunno exactly, said Harry, making another random turn, but Ron and Hermione must be around here somewhere. The first casualties of the battle were already strewn across the passage ahead: The two stone gargoyles that usually guarded the entrance to the staffroom had been smashed apart by a jinx that had sailed through another broken window. Their remains stirred feebly on the floor, and as Harry ggame over one of their disembodied heads, it moaned faintly, Oh, dont mind me. Ill just lie here and crumble. Its ugly stone face made Harry think suddenly of the marble bust calendaar Rowena Ravenclaw at Xenophiliuss house, wearing that mad headdress - and then of the statue in Ravenclaw Tower, with the stone diadem upon her white curls. And as he reached the end of the passage, the memory of a third stone effigy Pubg game release calendar back to him: that of an ugly old warlock, onto whose head Harry himself had placed a wig and a click here old tiara. The shock shot through Harry with the heat of firewhisky, and he nearly stumbled. He knew, at last, releae the Horcrux sat waiting for him. Tom Riddle, who confided in no one and operated alone, might have been arrogant enough to assume that he, and only he, had penetrated the deepest mysteries of Hogwarts Castle. Of course, Dumbledore and Flitwick, those model pupils, had never set foot in that particular place, but he, Harry, had strayed off the beaten track in his time at school - here at last was a secret cslendar and Voldemort knew, that Dumbledore had never discovered - He was roused reldase Professor Sprout, who was thundering past followed by Neville and half a dozen others, all of them wearing earmuffs reldase carrying what appeared to be large potted plants. Mandrakes. Neville bellowed at Harry over his shoulder as he ran. Going to lob them over the walls - they wont like this. Harry knew now where to go: He sped off, with Visit web page and Fang galloping behind him. They passed portrait after portrait, Puby the painted figures raced alongside them, wizards and witches in ruffs and breeches, in armor and cloaks, cramming themselves into each others canvases, screaming news from other parts of the castle. As they reached the end of this corridor, the whole castle shook, and Harry knew, as a gigantic vase blew off its plinth with explosive force, that it was in relrase grip of enchantments more sinister than those of the teachers and the Order. Its all righ, Fang - its all righ. yelled Rwlease, but the great boarhound had taken flight as slivers of china flew like shrapnel through the air, and Hagrid pounded off after the terrified dog, leaving Harry alone.

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Beneath this was a collection of yellow newspaper cuttings, all stuck together to make a ragged collage. Hermione crossed the room to examine them. Theyre all about Voldemort, she said. Regulus seems to have been a fan for a few years before he joined the Death Eaters. A little puff of dust rose from the bedcovers as she sat down to read the clippings. Harry, meanwhile, had noticed another photograph; a Hogwarts Quidditch team was smiling and waving out of the frame. He moved closer and saw the snakes emblazoned on their chests: Slytherins. Regulus was instantly recognizable as the boy sitting in the middle of the front row: He had the same dark hair and slightly haughty look of his brother, though he was smaller, slighter, and rather less handsome than Sirius had been. He played Seeker, said Harry. What. said Hermione vaguely; she was still immersed in Voldemorts press clippings. Hes sitting in the middle of the front row, thats where the Seeker. Never mind, said Harry, realizing that nobody was listening: Ron was on his hands and knees, searching under the wardrobe. Harry looked around the room for likely hiding places and approached the desk. Yet again, somebody had searched before them. The drawers contents had been turned over recently, the dust disturbed, but there was nothing of value there: old quills, out-of-date textbooks that bore evidence of being roughly handled, a recently smashed ink bottle, its sticky residue covering the contents of the drawer. Theres an easier way, said Hermione, as Harry wiped his inky fingers on his jeans. She raised her wand and said, Accio Locket. Nothing happened. Ron, who had been searching the folds of the faded curtains, looked disappointed. Is that it, then. Its not here. Oh, just click for source could still be here, but under counter-enchantments, said Hermione. Charms to prevent it being summoned magically, you know. Like Voldemort put on the stone basin in the cave, said Harry, remembering how he had been unable to Summon the fake locket. How are we supposed to find it then. asked Ron. We search manually, said Hermione. Thats a good idea, said Ron, rolling his eyes, and he resumed his examination of the curtains. They combed every inch of the room for more than an hour, but Baldurs gate update download forced, finally, to conclude that the locket was not there. The sun had risen now; its light dazzled them even through the grimy landing windows. It could be somewhere else in the house, Baldurs gate update download, said Hermione in a rallying tone as they walked back downstairs: As Harry and Ron had become more discouraged, she seemed to have become more determined. Whether hed managed to destroy it or not, hed want to keep it hidden from Voldemort, wouldnt he. Remember all those awful things we had to get rid of when we were here last time. That clock that shot bolts at everyone and those old robes that tried to strangle Ron; Regulus might have put them there to protect the lockets hiding place, even though we didnt realize it at. at. Harry and Ron looked at her. She was standing with one foot in midair, check this out the dumbstruck look of one who had just been Obliviated; her eyes had even drifted out of focus. at the time, she finished in a whisper. Something wrong. asked Ron. There was a locket. What. said Harry and Ron together. In the cabinet in the drawing room. Nobody could open it. And we. we. Harry felt as though a brick had slid down through his chest into his stomach. He remembered: He had even handled the thing as they passed it around, each trying in turn to prise it open. It had been tossed into a sack of rubbish, along with the snuffbox of Wartcap powder and the music box that had made everyone sleepy. Kreacher nicked loads of things back from us, said Harry. 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