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"So what happened to you two?" said Harry.
"Well, I got back all right," said Hermione. "I brought Ron round — that took a while — and we were dashing up to the owlery to contact Dumbledore when we met him in the entrance hall — he already knew — he just said, 'Harry's gone after him, hasn't he?' and hurtled off to the third floor."
"D'you think he meant you to do it?" said Ron. "Sending you your father's cloak and everything?"
"Well," Hermione exploded, "if he did — I mean to say that's terrible — you could have been killed."
"No, it isn't," said Harry thoughtfully. "He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could..."
Meanwhile, Susan Bones had arrived in the hospital wing for a nosebleed with a scowling Mandy Brocklehurst and a blank-faced Tracey Davis. While the Ravenclaw was trying to assimilate the fact the that Dead Dark Lord was an element of this weird conversation, and the Slytherin was thinking how right Professor Snape is about Potter, the Hufflepuff whose family have been nearly erradicated by Voldemort and his Death Eaters was blinking incredulously at the Boy-Who-Lived-With-Brain-Damage. The worse was perhaps the fact that Granger looked too serious and worried to let Susan believe it was a poorly made bad taste joke.
"Harry Potter, are you saying that Headmaster Dumbledore set you up, a first year student, to face You-Know-Who, on the hopefull theory that the Dark Lord would get blown up ?"
"Well, it did work!" replied the smug Weasley boy.
Susan pinched her nose with annoyance and turned on her heels muttering she felt better. The fact that she was still bleeding was not relevent. She had an aunt working in the DMLE that definitly should recieve an owl from her. Aunt Amelia did say Albus Dumbledore was senile once or twice.
But of course, that letter won't be as suspicious as what Susan will have to say after the End-of-Term Feast tomorrow evening.
