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Chapter - 41 : After Parties

It was enough. Up in the air, Harry was suddenly able to clamber back on his broom.

Harry was speeding towards the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand into his mouth as though he was about to be sick - he hit the pitch on all fours - coughed - and something gold fell into his hand.

"I've got the Snitch!" he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion.

Flint, the Slytherin captain, howled it to be unfair. But Gryffindor had won fair and square by hundred and seventy points to sixty.

The four of them were back in Hagrid's hut, being made a cup of strong tea.

Ron explained everything that had happened.

"Rubbish!" protested Hagrid. "Why would Snape do something like that?"

They looked at each other, wondering what to tell him. Harry decided on the truth.

"I found something about him," he told Hagrid. "He tried to get past that three-headed dog at Halloween. It bit him. We think think he's trying to steal whatever it's guarding."

Hagrid dropped the teapot.

"How do you know about Fluffy?" he said.

"Fluffy?"

"Yeah he's mine - bought him off a Greek chappie I met in the pub las' year - I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the -"

"Yes?" said Harry eagerly.
"Now, don't ask me any more," said Hagrid gruffly. "That's too secret, that is."

"But Snape's trying to steal it."
"Rubbish," said Hagrid again. "Snape's a Hogwarts teacher, he'd do nothin' of that sort."

"So why did he just try and kill Harry?" cried Hermione.
The afternoon's events certainly seemed to have changed her mind about Snape. But Ava still trusted Snape, because Dumbledore trusted him. And Ava trusted Dumbledore more than herself.

"I know a jinx when I see one, Hagrid, I've read all about them! You've got to keep eye contact, and Snape wasn't blinking at all, I saw him!" Hermione continued.

"I'm tellin' yeh, yer wrong!" Hagrid said hotly. "I don't know why Harry's broom acted like that, but Snape wouldn' try an' kill a student! Now, listen to me, all four of yeh - yer meddlin' in things that don' concern yeh. It's dangerous. You forget that dog, an' you forget what it's guardin', that's between Professor Dumbledore an' Nicolas Flamel -"

"Aha!" said Harry. "So there's someone called Nicolas Flamel involved, is there?"

Hagrid looked furious with himself.

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