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Off! off; off..

� and then he looks up at a distant ridge--

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Ron had been startled to discover there were only six weeks left until their exams.

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Harry and George threw their shoulders against the trunk and it slid out of the window into the back seat of the car.

The Gryffindor common room was always very crowded these days, because from six o'clock onward the Gryffindors had nowhere else to go. They also had plenty to talk about, with the result that the common room often didn't empty until past midnight.