「 burn the witch 」

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[ VOLUME FIVE ]

CHAPTER 118;
burn the witch

[ SEPTEMBER SECOND, 97' ]


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'I have gone out, a possessed witch,  
haunting the black air, braver at night;  
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch  
over the plain houses, light by light:  
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.  
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.  
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the woods,  
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,  
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:  
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,  
learning the last bright routes, survivor  
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.  
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.  
I have been her kind.'






Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

"You look terrible, " was Ron's greeting as he entered the room to wake Harry and Hera.

"Not for long, " Harry said, yawning and abruptly shaking his sister beside him to wake her too.

They found Hermione downstairs already in the kitchen.
She was being served coffee and hot rolls by Kreacher and wearing the slightly manic expression that Harry associated with exam review.

"Robes, " she said under her breath, acknowledging their presence with a nervous nod and continuing to poke around in her beaded bag, "Polyjuice Potion... Invisibility Cloak... Decoy Detonators... You should each take a couple just in case... Puking Pastilles, Nosebleed Nougat, Extendable Ears... "

They gulped down their breakfast, then set off upstairs, Kreacher bowing them out and promising to have a steak-and-kidney pie ready for them when they returned.

"You'll tell me more stories when I'm back?"
Hera inquired, tilting her head to the side as she regarded the elf a little more warmly than she had initially.

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