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perhaps you disagree with the dark lord
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perhaps you think that Dumbledore would
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not have noticed if I had joined forces
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with the Death Eaters to fight the Order
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of the Phoenix and forgive me you speak
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of dangers you were facing six teenagers
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were you not the dark arts are many
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varied everchanging and eternal fighting
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them is like fighting a many-headed
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monster which each time a neck is
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severed sprouts a head even fiercer and
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cleverer than before you are fighting
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that which is unfixed mutating
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indestructible that is just as well
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Potter said Snape coldly because you are
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neither special nor important and it is
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not up to you to find out what the dark
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lord is saying to his death eaters no
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that's your job isn't it harry shot at
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him he had not meant to say it it had
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burst out of him in temper for a long
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moment they stared at each other harry
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convinced he had gone too far but there
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was a curious almost satisfied
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expression on Snape's face when he
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answered yes Potter he said his eyes
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glinting that is my job then you will
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find yourself easy prey for the dark
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lord fools who wear their hearts proudly
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on their sleeves who cannot control
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their emotions who wallow in sad
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memories and allow themselves to be
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provoked this easily weak people in
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other words they stand no chance against
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his powers he will penetrate your mind
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with absurd ease Potter would you like
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me to do it now asked Snape his voice
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heavy with irony or would you like a few
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moments to compose an epitap snape set
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his wine glass down gently enough the
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clunk was barely audible leaned back a
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little in his chair with a sigh he was
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silent a moment fingers softly drumming
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against the surface of the table staring
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blankly at the wall to Liz's left
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as many times as I have intervened on
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behalf of one of my students your
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circumstances are unique never have I
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been presented with a situation where a
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child has nowhere to go normally there
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are cousins who would suit perhaps a
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friend of the family or at the very
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least I can go to the office of child
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welfare at the ministry
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however none of those options are
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available in your case and so I have
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been forced to take exceptional measures
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no Snape said shortly trying not to
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wrinkle his nose at the bright bag on
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Dumbledore's desk you know perfectly
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well my thoughts on muggle sweets
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i am well aware of the tension between
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the two of you Snape said silky
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i expect that this tension will cause no
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problems in any way related to the
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Slytherin Quidditch team both boys shook
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their heads to indicate it wouldn't i
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will hold the both of you to that
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agreement rather forcefully
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i care not for what you do off of the
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pitch i do not expect a friendship but I
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expect a cohesive team that can return
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the plaque to my office that I have
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become so accustomed to seeing on my
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wall this time both boys nodded boys 10
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points from Gryffindor for blatant
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disrespect of your superiors Snape said
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softly and I believe a detention this
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Saturday would be most elucidating for
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you perhaps then you may even be able to
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snape wrinkled his nose slightly
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honestly he didn't know how that made
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things fair or what fairness even meant
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gryffindor's sentimentality he assumed
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or perhaps the headmaster thought his
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own sensitive matter was more
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controversial than Snapes and he
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believed that granting a request before
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making one would make Snape more
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inclined to assist "no," Snape said
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bluntly it is fantastically unlikely
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that you will be able to develop even
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the most rudimentary occly shields
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before the quirrel situation resolves
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itself one way or another consider this
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more of a long-term self-enrichment
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project while the text will be
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immediately useful in improving memory
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and defending against some more obvious
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psychic attacks it will likely take you
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a minimum of two to three years of
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consistent study and practice before you
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can reliably defend yourself against any
