ot both her breath aemper back
again. ”you dont use your eyes, any of you, do you?” she
snapped. ”didnt you see what it was standing on.
”the flested. ”i wasnt looking at its feet,
i was too busy with its heads.”
”no, not the floor. it was standing on a trapdoor. its obviously
guardihing.”
she stood up, glaring at them.
i hope youre pleased with yourselves. we could all have been
killed -- or worse, expelled. now, if you dont mind, im going
to bed.”
roer her, his mouth open.
”no, we dont mind,” he said. ”youd think we dragged her along,
wouldnt you.
but hermione had given harry somethihink about as
he climbed bato bed. the dog was guardihing.... what
had hagrid said? gringotts la the world for
something you wao hide -- except perhaps hogwarts.
it looked as though harry had fouhe grubby littie
pa vault sevehirteen was.
chapter ten
halloween
malfoy t believe his eyes whe harry and ron
were still at hogwarts the day, looki perfectly
cheerful. ihe m harry and ron thought that
meetihree-headed dog had bee adventure, and
they were quite keeher oime, harry
filled ron in about the package that seemed to have been moved
frotts to hogwarts, a a lot of time w
ossibly need such heavy prote. ”its either really
valuable or really dangerous,” said ron. ”or both,” said harry.
but as all they knew for sure about the mysterious object was
that it was about two ihey didnt have muce of
guessing ithout further clues.
her neville nor hermiohe slightest i in
what lay uhe dog arapdoor. all neville cared
about was never g again.
hermione was o speak to harry and ron, but she was
such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus. all