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I heard you went to live with Muggles, said Ron. What are they like? Horrible.
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Well, not all of them. My aunt and uncle and cousin are though.
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Wish I'd had three wizard brothers. Five, said Ron.
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For some reason he was looking gloomy. I'm the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts.
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You could say I've got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left.
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Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy's a prefect.
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Fred and George mess around a lot,
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but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny.
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Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do,
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it's no big deal because they did it first.
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You never get anything new either with five brothers.
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I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand and Percy's old rat.
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Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat which was asleep.
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His name's Scabbers and he's useless. He hardly ever wakes up.
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Percy got an owl from my dad for being made a prefect, but they couldn't afford.
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I mean, I got Scabbers instead. Ron's ears went pink.
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He seemed to think he'd said too much because he went back to staring out of the window.
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Hairy didn't think there was anything wrong with not being able to afford an owl.
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And after all, he'd never had any money in his life until a month ago.
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This seemed to cheer Ron up, and until Hagrid told me,
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I didn't know anything about being a wizard or about my parents or Voldemort.
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Ron gasped. What? Said Hairy. You said you know who's name?
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Said Ron, sounding both shocked and impressed. I'd have thought you of all people.
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I'm not trying to be brave or anything, saying the name said Hairy. I just never knew.
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You shouldn't see what I mean. I've got loads to learn. I bet.
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He added, voicing for the first time something that had been worrying him a lot lately.
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I bet I'm the worst in the class. You won't be.
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There's loads of people who come from Muggle families and they learn quick enough.
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While they had been talking, the train had carried them out of London.
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Now they were speeding past fields full of cows and sheep.
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They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past.
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Around half past 12 there was a great clattering outside in the corridor and a smiling,
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dimpled woman slid back their door and said, anything off the cart, dears.
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Harry, who hadn't had any breakfast,
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Hairy went out into the corridor.
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But the woman didn't have Mars bars.
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What she did have were Bertie Bot's Every Flavor Beans, Droobal's Best Blowing Gum,
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Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice wands,
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and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
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Not wanting to miss anything,
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Hungry, are you? Starving, said Hairy,
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taking a large bite out of a pumpkin pasty.
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Ron had taken out a lumpy package and unwrapped it. There were four sandwiches inside.
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He pulled one of them apart and said, she always forgets I don't like corned beef.
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Swap you for one of these, said Hairy, holding up a pasty.
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Go on, you don't want this. It's all dry, said Ron.
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She hasn't got much time, he added quickly. You know, with five of us.
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Go on, have a pasty, said Harry, who had never had anything to share before,
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or indeed anyone to share it with.
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It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties,
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cakes and candies. The sandwiches lay forgotten. What are these Hairy?
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Asked Ron, holding up a pack of chocolate Frogs. They're not really frogs, are they?
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He was starting to feel that nothing would surprise him. No, said Ron.
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But see what the card is I'm missing. Agrippa. What?
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Oh, of course you wouldn't know. Chocolate frogs have cards inside them.
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You know, to collect famous witches and wizards.
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I've got about 500, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy.
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Harry unwrapped his chocolate frog and picked up the card. It showed a man's face.
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He wore half moon glasses,
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had a long crooked nose and flowing silver hair, beard and mustache.
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Underneath the picture was the name Albus Dumbledore.
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So this is Dumbledore, said Harry.
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Don't tell me you'd never heard of Dumbledore, Said Ron. Can I have a frog?
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I might get Agrippa. Thanks.
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Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times,
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With his partner Nicolas Flamau,
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Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and ten pin bowling.
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He's gone. Well, you can't expect him to hang around all day, said Ron.
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He'll be back. No, I've got Morgana again and I've got about six of her.
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Do you want it? You can start collecting.
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Ron's eyes strayed to the pile of chocolate frogs waiting to be unwrapped.
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Help yourself, said Hairy.
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But in, you know, the Muggle world, people just stay put in photos. Do they?
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What? They don't move at all? Ron sounded amazed. Weird.
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Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than looking at the famous witches and wizards cards,
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but Hairi couldn't keep his eyes off them.
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Soon he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but Hengist of Woodcroft,
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Albert Grunion, Cersei, Paracelsus and Merlin.
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Every flavor beans. You wanna be careful with those, Ron warned Hairi.
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When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor.
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You know you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade,
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but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe.
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George reckons he had a booger flavored one.
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Once Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully and bit into a corner.
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Bleh. See?
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They had a good time eating the every flavor beans.
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Hairy got toast, coconut baked bean, strawberry, curry grass,
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coffee, sardine,
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and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn't touch,
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which turned out to be Pepper. The countryside now flying past the window was becoming wilder.
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The neat fields had gone.
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Now there were woods, twisting rivers and dark green hills.
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He looked tearful. Sorry, he said, but have you seen a toad at all?
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When they shook their heads he wailed, I've lost him. He keeps getting away from me.
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He'll turn up, said Hairy. Yes, said the boy miserably.
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Well, if you see him. He left. Don't know why he's so bothered, said Ron.
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If I brought a toad I'd lose it as quick as I could.
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Mind you, I brought scabbers so I can't talk.
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The rat was still snoozing on Ron's lap.
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He might have died and you wouldn't know the difference, said Ron in disgust.
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