hands on summat.”
harry sat and thought about this while hagrid read his
he daily prophet. harry had learned from un
that people liked to be left alohey did this, but it was
very difficult, hed never had so maions in his life.
”ministry o magi things up as usual,” hagrid muttered,
turning the page.
”theres a ministry of magic?” harry asked, before he could
stop himself.
”course,” said hagrid. ”they wanted dumbledore fer minister,
0 course, but hed never leave hogwarts, so old elius fudge
got the job. buhere was os dumbledore
with , askin fer advice.”
”but what does a ministry of magic do?”
”well, their main job is to keep it from the muggles that
theres still wit an dowry.”
”why?”
”why? blimey, harry, everyoned be wantin magis to
their problems. nah, were best left alone.”
at this mome bumped gently into the harbor
wall. hagrid folded up his hey clambered up the
stohe street.
passersby stared a lot at hagrid as they walked through the
little towion. harry t blame them. not only was
hagrid twice as tall as a pointily
s like parkiers and saying loudly, ”see that,
harry? things these muggles dream up, eh?”
”hagrid,” said harry, panting a bit as he ran to keep up,
”did you say there are dragotts?”
”well, so they say,” said hagrid. ”crikey, id like a dragon.”
”youd like one?”
”wanted one ever since i was a kid -- here we go.”
they had reached the statiorain to london in
five miime. hagrid, who didnt uand ”muggle money,” as
he called it, gave the bills to harry so he could buy their tickets.
people stared more thahe train. hagrid took up two
seats and sat knitting what looked like a ary-yellow t.