them a huge pile of homework the day before.
just then, the mail arrived. harry had gottehis by
now, but it had given him a bit of a sho the first m,
when about a hundred owls had suddeo the great hall
duri, g the tables uheir owners,
and droppiers aheir laps.
hedwig hadnt brought harry anything so far. she sometimes
flew in to nibble his ear a of t off
to sleep ihe other school owls. this m,
however, she fluttered dowhe marmalade and the sugar
boed a o harrys plate. harry tore it open at
o said, iidy scrawl:
dear harry,
i k friday afternoons off, so would you like to e
and have a cup of tea with me around three?
i want to hear all about your first week. send us an answer
back with hedwig.
hagrid
harry borrowed rons quill, scribbled yes, please, see you
later on the back of the note, a hedwig off again.
it was lucky that harry had tea with hagrid to look forward to,
because the potiouro be the w that
had happeo him so far.
at the start-of-term ba, harry had gotte
professor snape disliked him. by the e potions lesson,
he knew hed been e didnt dislike harry -- he hated him.
potioook pla ohe du was
colder here than up in the main d would have been quite
ough without the piimals floating in glass jars
all around the walls.
swick, started the class by taking the roll call,
awick, he paused at harrys name.
”ah, yes,” he said softly, ”harry potter. our y.”
draalfoy and his friends d goyle sniggered behind
their hands. snape finished g the names a
the class. his eyes were black like hagrids, but they had none
of hagrids warmth. they were pty ahi