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"ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?" | had | had passed |
"Oh, right!" | passed | passed since |
said Hermione, and she whipped out her wand, waved it,
muttered something, and sent a jet of the same bluebell flames she had
used on Snape at the plant. | since | since the |
In a matter of seconds, the two boys felt it
loosening its grip as it cringed away from the light and warmth. | the | the Dursleys |
Wriggling and flailing, it unraveled itself from their bodies, and they
were able to pull free. | Dursleys | Dursleys had |
"Lucky you pay attention in Herbology, Hermione," said Harry as he
joined her by the wall, wiping sweat off his face. | had | had woken |
"Yeah," said Ron, "and lucky Harry doesn't lose his head in a crisis --
'there's no wood,' honestly." | woken | woken up |
"This way," said Harry, pointing down a stone passageway, which was the
only way forward. | up | up to |
All they could hear apart from their footsteps was the gentle drip of
water trickling down the walls. | to | to find |
The passageway sloped downward, and
Harry was reminded of Gringotts. | find | find their |
With an unpleasant jolt of the heart,
he remembered the dragons said to be guarding vaults in the wizards'
bank. | their | their nephew |
If they met a dragon, a fully-grown dragon -- Norbert had been bad
enough...
"Can you hear something?" | nephew | nephew on |
Ron whispered. | on | on the |
Harry listened. | the | the front |
A soft rustling and clinking seemed to be coming from up
ahead. | front | front step |
"Do you think it's a ghost?" | step | step , |
"I don't know... sounds like wings to me." | , | , but |
"There's light ahead -- I can see something moving." | but | but Privet |
They reached the end of the passageway and saw before them a brilliantly
lit chamber, its ceiling arching high above them. | Privet | Privet Drive |
It was full of small,
jewel-bright birds, fluttering and tumbling all around the room. | Drive | Drive had |
On the
opposite side of the chamber was a heavy wooden door. | had | had hardly |
"Do you think they'll attack us if we cross the room?" | hardly | hardly changed |
said Ron. | changed | changed at |
"Probably," said Harry. | at | at all |
"They don't look very vicious, but I suppose if
they all swooped down at once... well, there's no other choice... | all | all . |
I'll
run." | . | . The |
He took a deep breath, covered his face with his arms, and sprinted
across the room. | The | The sun |
He expected to feel sharp beaks and claws tearing at
him any second, but nothing happened. | sun | sun rose |
He reached the door untouched. | rose | rose on |
He
pulled the handle, but it was locked. | on | on the |
The other two followed him. | the | the same |
They tugged and heaved at the door, but it
wouldn't budge, not even when Hermione tried her Alohomora charm. | same | same tidy |
"Now what?" | tidy | tidy front |
said Ron. | front | front gardens |
"These birds... they can't be here just for decoration," said Hermione. | gardens | gardens and |
They watched the birds soaring overhead, glittering -- glittering? | and | and lit |
"They're not birds!" | lit | lit up |
Harry said suddenly. | up | up the |
"They're keys! | the | the brass |
Winged keys --
look carefully. | brass | brass number |
So that must mean..." he looked around the chamber while
the other two squinted up at the flock of keys. | number | number four |
"... yes -- look! | four | four on |
Broomsticks! | on | on the |
We've got to catch the key to the door!" | the | the Dursleys |
"But there are hundreds of them!" | Dursleys | Dursleys ' |
Ron examined the lock on the door. | ' | ' front |
"We're looking for a big, old-fashioned one -- probably silver, like the
handle." | front | front door |
They each seized a broomstick and kicked off into the air, soaring into
the midst of the cloud of keys. | door | door ; |
They grabbed and snatched, but the
bewitched keys darted and dived so quickly it was almost impossible to
catch one. | ; | ; it |
Not for nothing, though, was Harry the youngest Seeker in a century. | it | it crept |
He
had a knack for spotting things other people didn't. | crept | crept into |
After a minute's
weaving about through the whirl of rainbow feathers, he noticed a large
silver key that had a bent wing, as if it had already been caught and
stuffed roughly into the keyhole. | into | into their |
"That one!" | their | their living |
he called to the others. | living | living room |
"That big one -- there -- no, there
-- with bright blue wings -- the feathers are all crumpled on one side." | room | room , |
Ron went speeding in the direction that Harry was pointing, crashed into
the ceiling, and nearly fell off his broom. | , | , which |
"We've got to close in on it!" | which | which was |
Harry called, not taking his eyes off the
key with the damaged wing. | was | was almost |
"Ron, you come at it from above -- Hermione,
stay below and stop it from going down and I'll try and catch it. | almost | almost exactly |
Right,
NOW!" | exactly | exactly the |
Ron dived, Hermione rocketed upward, the key dodged them both, and Harry
streaked after it; it sped toward the wall, Harry leaned forward and
with a nasty, crunching noise, pinned it against the stone with one
hand. | the | the same |
Ron and Hermione's cheers echoed around the high chamber. | same | same as |
They landed quickly, and Harry ran to the door, the key struggling in
his hand. | as | as it |
He rammed it into the lock and turned -- it worked. | it | it had |
The moment
the lock had clicked open, the key took flight again, looking very
battered now that it had been caught twice. | had | had been |
"Ready?" | been | been on |
Harry asked the other two, his hand on the door handle. | on | on the |
They
nodded. | the | the night |
He pulled the door open. | night | night when |
The next chamber was so dark they couldn't see anything at all. | when | when Mr. |
But as
they stepped into it, light suddenly flooded the room to reveal an
astonishing sight. | Mr. | Mr. Dursley |
They were standing on the edge of a huge chessboard, behind the black
chessmen, which were all taller than they were and carved from what
looked like black stone. | Dursley | Dursley had |
Facing them, way across the chamber, were the
white pieces. | had | had seen |
Harry, Ron and Hermione shivered slightly -- the towering
white chessmen had no faces. | seen | seen that |
"Now what do we do?" | that | that fateful |
Harry whispered. | fateful | fateful news |
"It's obvious, isn't it?" | news | news report |
said Ron. | report | report about |
"We've got to play our way across
the room." | about | about the |
Behind the white pieces they could see another door. | the | the owls |
"How?" | owls | owls . |
said Hermione nervously. | . | . Only |
"I think," said Ron, "we're going to have to be chessmen." | Only | Only the |
He walked up to a black knight and put his hand out to touch the
knight's horse. | the | the photographs |
At once, the stone sprang to life. | photographs | photographs on |
The horse pawed the
ground and the knight turned his helmeted head to look down at Ron. | on | on the |
"Do we -- er -- have to join you to get across?" | the | the mantelpiece |
The black knight
nodded. | mantelpiece | mantelpiece really |
Ron turned to the other two. | really | really showed |
"This needs thinking about he said. | showed | showed how |
I suppose we've got to take the
place of three of the black pieces...."
Harry and Hermione stayed quiet, watching Ron think. | how | how much |
Finally he said,
"Now, don't be offended or anything, but neither of you are that good at
chess --"
"We're not offended," said Harry quickly. | much | much time |
"Just tell us what to do." | time | time had |
"Well, Harry, you take the place of that bishop, and Hermione, YOU 90
next to him instead of that castle." | had | had passed |
"What about you?" | passed | passed . |
"I'm going to be a knight," said Ron. | . | . Ten |
The chessmen seemed to have been listening, because at these words a
knight, a bishop, and a castle turned their backs on the white pieces
and walked off the board, leaving three empty squares that Harry, Ron,
and Hermione took. | Ten | Ten years |
"White always plays first in chess," said Ron, peering across the board. | years | years ago |
"Yes... look..."
A white pawn had moved forward two squares. | ago | ago , |
Ron started to direct the black pieces. | , | , there |
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