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第2章 谁与争锋

Angelina had changed already and was talking to the rest of the team when they entered. Harry and Ron pulled on their robes (Ron attempted to do his up back-to-front for several minutes before Alicia took pity on him and went to help), then sat down to listen to the pre-match talk while the babble of voices outside grew steadily louder as the crowd came pouring out of the castle towards the pitch.

as she feverishly changed her position, shuffled her feet upon the

ay into the wind, we gave way, and went before it.

And up the stairs into the box came the seven defeated Bulgarian players. The crowd below was applauding appreciatively; Harry could see thousands and thousands of Omniocular lenses flashing and winking in their direction.

black by the black yew at the gate. “This is not thy deception, nor

being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on

As they clattered upwards again the memos flapped around the lamp swaying from the lift's ceiling.

attempt to regain his friendship. I went out and approached him

And then, suddenly, the sparks emanating from the cauldron were extinguished. A surge of white steam billowed thickly from the cauldron instead, obliterating everything in front of Harry, so that he couldn't see Wormtail or Cedric or anything but vapor hanging in the air.…It's gone wrong, he thought…it's drowned …please…please let it be dead.…