oomsticks came swooping
down out of the darkness.
charlies friends were a cheery lot. they showed harry and
hermiohe harheyd rigged up, so they could suspe
betweehey all helped buorbert safely into it and
then harry and hermione shook hands with the others and thanked
them very much.
at last, was going... going... gone.
they slipped ba the spiral staircase, their hearts as
light as their hands, now that was off them. non
-- malfoy iion -- what could spoil their happiness?
the a was waiti of the stairs. as
they stepped into the corridor, filchs faed suddenly out
of the darkness.
”ell,” he whispered, ”we are in trouble.”
theyd left the invisibility top of the tower.
chapter fifteen
the foribidde
things t have been worse.
fil down to pralls study on the
first floor, where they sat a saying a word to each
other. hermi. excuses, alibis, and wild cover- up
stories chased each other around harrys brain, each more feeble
tha. he t see how they were goi of
trouble this time. they were ered. how could they have been so
stupid as tet the cloak? there was no reaso
prall t f out of bed and
g around the s the dead of alone being
up the tallest astronomy toas out-of-bou for
classes. add he invisibility d they might as
well be pag their bags already.
had harry thought that things t have been worse? he was
wrong. when prall appeared, she was leading neville.
”harry!” out, the momehe other two. ”i
was trying to find you to warn you, i heard malfoy saying he was
going to catch you, he said you had a drag --”
harry shook his head violently to shut professor
magall had seen. she looked more likely to breathe fire than