has bee, so it is now.”
”yeah,” said hagrid, ”but have yeh seen anythin, ronan? anythin
unusual?”
”mars is bright tonight,” roed, while hagrid watched
him impatiently. ”unusually bright.”
”yeah, but i was meanin anythin unusual a bit nearer home,
said hagrid. ”so yeh havent hin strange?”
yet again, ronan took a while to a last, he said,
”the forest hides mas.”
a movemerees behind ronan made hagrid raise his bow
again, but it was oaur, black-haired and -bodied
and wilder-looking than ronan.
”hullo, bane,” said hagrid. ”all right?”
”good evening, hagrid, i hope you are well?”
”well enough. look, ive jus bin askin ronahin
odd iely? theres a uni injured -- would yeh know
anythin about it?”
bao stao ronan. he looked skyward. ”mars
is bright tonight,” he said simply.
”weve heard,” said hagrid grumpily. ”well, if either of you
do see anythi me know, wont yeh? well be off, then.”
harry and hermio of the g, staring over
their shoulders at ronahe trees blocked their view.
”never,” said hagrid irritably, ”try araight answer
out of a taur. ruddy stargazers. ed in anythin
closern the moon.”
”are there many of them in here?” asked hermione.
”oh, a fair few... keep themselves to themselves mostly, but
theyre good enough about turnin up if ever i want a word. theyre
deep, miaurs... they know things... jus do on much.”
”dyou think that was a taur we heard earlier?” said harry.
”did that souo you? nah, if yeh ask me, that
was whats bin killin the uniever heard anythin like
it before.”
they walked h the derees