He strode right up to the marble woman, and she... He strode right up to the marble woman, and she seemed to look back at him with a quizzical half smile on her face, beautiful yet slightly intimidatingA delicate-looking circlet had been reproduced in marble on top of her headIt was not unlike the tiara Fleur had worn at her weddingThere were tiny words etched into itHarry stepped out from under the Cloak and climbed up onto Ravenclaw's plinth to read them
"'\iWit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure\i'"
"Which makes you pretty skint, witless," said a cackling voice
Harry whirled around, slipped off the plinth, and landed on the floorThe sloping-shouldered figure of Alecto Carrow was standing before him, and even as Harry raised his wand, she pressed a stubby forefinger to the skull and snake branded on her forearm
\p\C0="Chapter Thirty: The Sacking of Severus Snape"
\bChapter Thirty
\iThe Sacking of Severus Snape\i\b
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"I've never Stunned anyone except in our Dlessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested"That was noisier than I though it would be
And sure enough, the ceiling had begun to tremble Scurrying, echoing footsteps were growing louder from behind the door leading to the dormitoriesLuna's spell had woken Ravenclaws sleeping above
"Luna, where are you? I need to get under the Cloak!"
Luna's feet appeared out of nowhere,; he hurried to her side and she let the Cloak fall back over them as the door opened and a stream of Ravenclaws, all in their nightclothes, flooded into the common roomthere were gasps and cries of surprise as they saw Alecto lying there unconsciousSlowly they shuffled in around her, a savage beast that might wake at any moment and attack themThen one brave little first-year darted up to her and prodded her backside with his big toe
"I think she might be dead!" he shouted with delight
"Oh look," whispered Luna happily, as the Ravenclaws crowded in around Alecto"They're
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"Yeah"
Harry closed his eyes, and as his scar throbbed he chose to sink again into Voldemort's mindHe was moving along the tunnel into the first caveHe had chosen to make sure of the locker before comingut that would not take him long
There was a rap on the common room door and every Ravenclaw frozeFrom the other side, Harry heard the soft, musical voice that issued from the eagle door knocker: "Where do Vanished objects go?"
"I dunno, do I? Shut it!" snarled an uncouth voice that Harry knew was that of the Carrow brother , Amycus, "Alecto? \iAlecto?\i Are you there? Have you got him? Open the door!"
The Ravenclaws were whispering amongst themselves, terrifiedThen without warning, there came a series of loud bangs, as though somebody was firing a gun into the door
"\iALECTO!\i If he comes, and we haven't got Potter \a150\a150d'you want to go the same way as the Malfoys? ANSWER ME!" Amycus bellowed, shaking the door for all he was worth, but still it did not openThe Ravenclaws were all backing away, and some of the most frightened began scampering back up the stair case to their bedsThen, just as Harry was wondering whether he ought not to blast open the door and
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"May I ask what you are doing, Professor Carrow?"
"Trying\a151to get\a150\a150 through this damned\a150\a150 door!" shouted Amycus"Go and get Flitwick! Get him to open it, now!"
"But isn't your sister in there" asked Professor McGonagall"Didn't Professor Flitwick let her in earlier this evening, at your urgent request? Perhaps she could open the door for you? Then you needn't wake up half the castle
"She ain't answering, you old besom! \iYou\i open it! Garn! Do it, now!"
"Certainly, if you wish it," said Professor McGonagall, with awful coldness, There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again
"Where do Vanished objects go?"
"Into non being, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall
"Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open
The few Ravenclaws who had remained behind sprinted for the stairs as Amycus burst over the threshold, brandishing his wandHunched like his sister, he had a pallid, doughy face and tiny eyes, which fell at once on Alecto, sprawled motionless on the floorHe let
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"What've they done, the little whelps?" he screamed"I'll Cruciate the lot of 'em till they tell me who did it\a150\a150and what's the Dark Lord going to say?" he shrieked, standing over his sister and smacking himself on the forehead with his fist, "We haven't got him, and they've gone and killed her!"
"She's only Stunned," said Professor McGonagall impatiently, who had stooped down to examine Alecto"She'll be perfectly all right
"No she bludgering well won't!" bellowed Amycus"Not after the Dark Lord gets hold of her! She's gone and sent for him, I felt me Mark burn, and he thinks we've got Potter!"
"'Got Potter'?" said Professor McGonagall sharply, "What do you mean, 'got Potter'?"
"He told us Potter might try and get inside Ravenclaw Tower, and to send for him if we caught him!"
"Why would Harry Potter try to get inside Ravenclaw Tower! Potter belongs in my House!"
Beneath the disbelief and anger, Harry heard a little strain of pride in her voice and affection for Minerva McGonagall gushed up inside him
"We was told he might come in here!" said Carrow"I dunno why, do I?"
Professor McGonagall stood up and her beady eyes swept the
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