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and Harry broke off, feeling both annoyed and slightly ashamed of himself again.

Serve them right, he thought.

“Can’t you give it a rest?”

“That was really unfair,” said Hermione consolingly, sitting down next to Harry <…>
“Yeah, well,” said Harry, glowering at his plate, “since when has Snape ever been fair to me?”

When at long last the bell rang, Harry was first out of the dungeon

“Homework: twelve inches of parchment on the properties of moonstone and its uses in potion-making, to be handed in on Thursday.”

Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an ‘Acceptable’ in your O.W.L., or suffer my . . . displeasure.”

“You are so tactless!”

“Oh, come on, half the people you see wearing those badges only bought them last season —”
“But what does it matter?”
“It means they’re not real fans, they’re just jumping on the bandwagon —”

“So did you . . . er . . . have a good summer?”