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“I can't,” said Ginny, and she went scarlet too. “I'm going with - with Neville. He asked me when Hermione said no, and I thought…well…I'm not going to be able to go otherwise, I'm not in fourth year.” She looked extremely miserable. “I think I'll go and have dinner,” she said, and she got up and walked off to the portrait hole, her head bowed.

“It is natural to be afraid,” said Dumbledore.

“Harry, did you ever even open A History of Magic?“

“It was frantic folly to do so, Jane. Think of the task you

“How the ruddy hell –?”

“I don't think so,” said a wizard with a scrubby brown beard. It was Amos Diggory, Cedric's father. “Our Stunners went right through those trees.…There's a good chance we got them.…”

“It’s one extra day,” said Ron, when Harry looked mutinous.

“It was definitely a curse that killed her - probably the Transmogrifian Torture - I've seen it used many times, so unlucky I wasn't there, I know the very countercurse that would have saved her…”

“I cannot tell: I found her at the door,” was the reply.