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第6章 公道人心

Ben. See, where he comes. So please you step aside, I'll know his

And then, without warning, it swept over him, the dreadful truth, more completely and undeniably than it had until now. Dumbledore was dead, gone ... he clutched the cold locket in his hand so tightly that it hurt, but he could not prevent hot tears spilling from his eyes: he looked away from Ginny and the others and stared out over the lake, towards the Forest, as the little man in black droned on ... there was movement among the trees. The centaurs had come to pay their respects, too. They did not move into the open but Harry saw them standing quite still, half-hidden in shadow, watching the wizards, their bows hanging at their sides. And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the Forest, the first time he had ever encountered the thing that was then Voldemort, and how he had faced him, and how he and Dumbledore had discussed fighting a losing battle not long thereafter. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though

and which had found utterance in the most terrific gasps and

are as safe here as you could be. There is not a safer place in all

as that of the Medes and Persians, that both are right.”

And there he sat.

appearance; that gentleman, motioning Brittles to retire, brought

approaching. Presently I heard Pilot bark far below, out of his

backwards and forwards on the pavement; the shutters of the