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"Somewhere in Hogsmeade?" suggested Hermione "The...
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"Somewhere in Hogsmeade?" suggested Hermione
"The Shrieking Shack?" said Harry"Nobody ever goes in there
"But Snape knows how to get in, wouldn't that be a bit risky?"
"Dumbledore trusted Snape," Harry reminded her
"Not enough to tell him that he had swapped the swords," said Hermione
"Yeah, you're right!" said Harry, and he felt even more cheered at the thought that Dumbledore had had some reservations, however faint, about Snape's trustworthiness"So, would he have hidden the sword well away from Hogsmeade, then? What d'you reckon, Ron? Ron?"
Harry looked aroundFor one bewildered moment he thought that Ron had left the tent, then realized that Ron was lying in the shadow of a bunk, looking stony
"Oh, remembered me, have you?" he said
"What?"
Ron snorted as he stared up at the underside of the upper bunkDon't let me spoil your chanel replica handbag fun
Perplexed, Harry looked to Hermione for help, but she shook her head, apparently as nonplussed as he was
"What's the problem?" asked Harry
"Problem? There's no problem," said Ron, still refusing to look at Harry"Not according to you, anyways
There were several plunks on the canvas over their headsIt had started to rain
"Well, you've obviously got a problem," said Harry"Spit it out, will you?"
Ron swung his long legs off the bed and sat upHe looked mean, unlike himself
"All right, I'll spit it outDon't expect me to skip up and down the tent because there's some other damn thing we've got to findJust add it to the list of stuff you don't know
"I don't know?" repeated Harry"I don't know?"
Plunk, plunk, plunkThe rain was falling harder and heavier; it pattered on the leaf-strewn bank all around them and into the river chattering through the shop for chanel bags darkDread doused Harry's jubilation; Ron was saying exactly what he had suspected and feared him to be thinking
"It's not like I'm not having the time of my life here," said Ron, "you know, with my arm mangled and nothing to eat and freezing my backside off every nightI just hoped, you know, after we'd been running round a few weeks, we'd have achieved something
"Ron," Hermione said, but in such a quiet voice that Ron could pretend not to have heard it over the loud tattoo the rain was beating on the tent
"I thought you knew what you'd signed up for," said Harry
"Yeah, I thought I did too
"So what part of it isn't living up to your expectations?" asked HarryAnger was coming to his defense now"Did you think we'd be staying in five-star hotels? Finding a Horcrux every other day? Did you think you'd be back to Mummy by Christmas?"
"We thought you watch ballon de cartier knew what you were doing!" shouted Ron, standing up, and his words Harry like scalding knives"We thought Dumbledore had told you what to do, we thought you had a real plan!"
"Ron!" said Hermione, this time clearly audible over the rain thundering on the tent roof, but again, he ignored her
"Well, sorry to let you down," said Harry, his voice quite calm even though he felt hollow, inadequate"I've been straight with you from the startI told you everything Dumbledore told meAnd in the case you haven't noticed, we've found one Horcrux\a151"
"Yeah, and we're about as near getting rid of it as we are to finding the rest of them\a151nowhere effing near in other words
"take off the locket, Ron," Hermione said, her voice unusually highYou wouldn't be talking like this if you hadn't been wearing it all day
"Yeah, he would," said Harry, who did not want fendi spy excuses made for Ron"D'you think I haven't noticed the two of you whispering behind my back? D'you think I didn't guess you were thinking this stuff?
"Harry, we weren't\a151"
"Don't lie!" Ron hurled at her"You said it too, you said you were disappointed, you said you'd thought he had a bit more to go on than\a151"
"I didn't say it like that\a151Harry, I didn't!" she cried
The rain was pounding the tent, tears were pouring down Hermione's face, and the excitement of a few minutes before had vanished as if it had never been, a short-lived
firework that had flared and died, leaving everything dark, wet, and coldThe sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and their were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead
"So why are you still here?" Harry asked Ron
"Search me," said Ron
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