He had the uncomfortable feeling that he was eavesdropping on something furtive, shameful
For the first time, he wished he were clothed
Barely had the wish formed in his head than robes appeared a short distance awayHe took them and pulled them onThey were soft, clean, and warmIt was extraordinary how they had appeared just like that, the moment he had wanted them
He stood up, looking aroundWas he in some great Room of Requirement? The longer he looked, the more there was to seeA great domed glass roof glittered high above him in sunlightPerhaps it was a palaceAll was hushed and still, except for those odd thumping and whimpering noises coming from somewhere close by in the mist
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He recoiledHe had spotted the thing that was making the noisesIt had the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground, its skin raw and rough, flayed-looking, and it lay shuddering under a seat where it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of sight, struggling for breathSmall and fragile and wounded though it was, he did not want to approach itNevertheless he drew slowly nearer, ready to jump back at any momentSoon he stood near enough to touch it, yet he could not bring himself to do itHe http://www.culuxury.com/scategory_2_Chanel.html" target="_blank felt like a cowardHe ought to comfort it, but it repulsed himAlbus Dumbledore was walking toward him, sprightly and upright, wearing sweeping robes of midnight blue He spread his arms wide, and his hands were both whole and white and undamaged
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"Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factlyI'm dead too?"
"Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly"That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not
They looked at each other, the old man still beaming
"Not?" repeated Harry
"Not," said Dumbledore Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scarIt did not seem to be there"But I should have died - I didn't defend myself! I meant to let him kill me!"
"And that," said Dumbledore, "will, I think, have made all the difference
Happiness seemed to radiate from Dumbledore like light; like fire: Harry had never seen the man so utterly, so palpably content
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"I let him kill me," said Harry"Didn't I?"
"You did," said Dumbledore, nodding"Go on!"
"So the part of his soul that was in me
Dumbledore nodded still more enthusiastically, urging Harry onward, a broad smile of encouragement on his facehas it gone?"
"Oh yes!" said Dumbledore"Yes, he destroyed itYour soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry
Harry trembled over his shoulder to where the small, maimed creature trembled under the chair
"What is that, Professor?"
"something that is beyond either of our help," said Dumbledore
"But if Voldemort used the Killing Curse," Harry started again, "and nobody died for me this time - how can I be alive?"
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