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  But she backed away from him.
  ”Oh no, it’s yours, dear, I couldn’t. . . you keep it.”
  Harry returned to Gryffindor Tower the following evening. From what Hermione and Ron told him, Dumbledore had spoken to the school that morning at breakfast. He had merely requested that they leave Harry alone, that nobody ask him questions or badger him to tell the story of what had happened in the maze. Most people, he noticed, were skirting him in the corridors,custom usb drives, avoiding his eyes. Some whispered behind their hands as he passed.
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  ”She said Dumbledore’s got his reasons,about the others,” said Ron, shaking his head darkly. “I suppose we’ve got to trust him, haven’t we?”
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“And what about that funny old witch and that little wizard in the navy robes?”
Hermione asked.

“Oh yeah, the bloke from Magical Maintenance,” said Ron.

“How do you know he works for Magical Maintenance?” Hermione asked, her
soupspoon suspended in midair.

“Dad said everyone from Magical Maintenance wears navy blue robes.”

“But you never told us that!”

Hermione dropped her spoon and pulled toward her the sheaf of notes and maps
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“There’s nothing in here about navy blue robes, nothing!” she said, flipping
feverishly through the pages.

“Well, dies it really matter?”

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if you aren’t even bothering to tell us �“

“Blimey, Hermione, I forget one little thing � “

“You do realize, don’t you,“You’re going to leave here with us, that there’s probably no more dangerous place in the
whole world for us to be right now than the Ministry of �“

“I think we should do it tomorrow,” said Harry.

Hermione stopped dead, her jaw hanging; Ron choked a little over his soup.

“Tomorrow?” repeated Hermione. “You aren’t serious, Harry?”

“I am,” said Harry. “I don’t think we’re going to be much better prepared than we
are now even if we skulk around the Ministry entrance for another month. The longer we
put it off, the farther away that locket could be. There’s already a good chance Umbridge
has chucked it away; the thing doesn’t open.”

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Hermione was biting her lip, deep in thought.

“We know everything important,” Harry went on, addressing Hermione. “We
know they’ve stopped Apparition in and out of the Ministry; We know only the most
senior Ministry members are allowed to connect their homes to the Floo Network now,
because Ron heard those two Unspeakables complaining about it. And we know roughly
where Umbridge’s office is, because of what you heard the bearded bloke saying to his
mate �“

“’I’ll be up on level one, Dolores wants to see me,’” Hermione recited
immediately.

“Exactly,” said

t me anything.”

She disregarded this too.

“I didn’t know what would be useful. Nothing too big, because you wouldn’t be
able to take it with you.”

He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many
wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that
having six brothers must have toughened her up.

She took a step closer to him.

“So then I thought, I’d like you to have something to remember me by, you know,
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The door banged open behind them and they jumped apart.

“Oh,” said Ron pointedly. “Sorry.”

“Ron!” Hermione was just behind him, slight out of breath. There was a strained
silence, then Ginny had said in a flat little voice,

“Well, happy birthday anyway, Harry.”

Ron’s ears were scarlet; Hermione looked nervous. Harry wanted to slam the door
in their faces, but it felt as though a cold draft had entered the room when the door
opened, and his shining moment had popped like a soap bubble. All the reasons for
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inside the room with Ron, and all happy forgetfulness was gone.

He looked at Ginny, wanting to say something, though he hardly knew what, but
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tears. He could not do anything to comfort her in front of Ron.

“I’ll see you later,” he said, and followed the other two out of the bedroom.

Ron marched downstairs, though the still-crowded kitchen and into the yard, and
Harry kept pace with him all the way, Hermione trotting along behind them looking
scared.

Once he reached the seclusion of the freshly mown lawn, Ron rounded on Harry.

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“I’m not messing her around,” said Harry, as Hermione caught up with them.

“Ron–”

But Ron held up a hand to silence her.

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