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第3章 胆量的较量

“Sir?” said Mrs. Fairfax.

“See there, there!” cried Oliver, eagerly clasping the hand of

“Oooh, very good,” she said, her thick glasses twinkling, “it took Diggory much longer than that! And that was with her awake too” - Myrtle jerked her head toward the mermaid with an expression of great dislike on her glum face - “giggling and showing off and flashing her fins.…”

“Mandrake, or Mandragora, is a powerful restorative,” said Hermione, sounding as usual as though she had swallowed the textbook. “It is used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their original state.”

“NO!” Harry heard Riddle screaming. “LEAVE THE BIRD! LEAVE THE BIRD! THE BOY IS BEHIND YOU. YOU CAN STILL SMELL HIM. KILL HIM!”

“Queer name!” said the old gentleman. “What made you tell the

“Not a word now,” said the Jew, descending the stairs.—“I say,”

“Nothing in the world,” was the reply; and, replacing the paper,

“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of