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We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with a
trembles at my having fought him.
unknown who had addressed him through the keyhole, had
Vernon Dursley said nothing at all. Harry did not doubt that speech would return to him, and soon—the vein pulsing in his uncle's temple was reaching danger point—but something about Dumbledore seemed to have robbed him temporarily of breath. It might have been the blatant wizardishness of his appearance, but it might, too, have been that even Uncle Vernon could sense that here was a man whom it would be very difficult to bully.
was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had