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own glass silently to of Bilbo, and slipped out of the pavilion.As for Bilbo Baggins, even while he was making his speech, he had been fingering the golden ring in his pocket: his magic ring that he had kept secret for so many years. As he stepped down he slipped it on his finger, and he was never seen by any hobbit in Hobbiton again.He walked briskly back to his hole, and stood for a moment listening with a smile to the din in the stuffed into the top of a heavy bag that was standing there, already nearly full. Into the envelope he slipped his golden ring, and its fine chain, and then sealed it, and addressed it to Frodo. At first he put it on the mantelpiece, but suddenly he removed it and stuck it in his pocket. At that moment the door opened and Gandalf came quickly in.‘Hullo!’ said Bilbo. 'I wondered if you would turn up.’'I am glad to find you visible,’ replied the wizard, sitting down in a chair, 'I wanted to pavilion and to the sounds of merrymaking in other parts of the field. Then he went in. He took off his party clothes, folded up and wrapped in tissue-paper his embroidered silk waistcoat, and put it away. Then he put on quickly some old untidy garments, and fastened round his waist a worn leather belt. On it he hung a short sword in a battered black-leather scabbard. From a locked drawer, smelling of moth-balls, he took out an old cloak and hood. They had been locked up as if they were very precious, but they were so patched and weatherstained that their original colour could hardly be guessed: it might have been dark green. They were rather too large for him. He then went into his study, and from a large strong-box took out a bundle wrapped in old cloths, and a leather-bound manuscript; and also a large bulky envelope. The book and bundle he

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Hagrid's unexpected bellow nearly forced Harry's eyes open. "Happy now, are yeh, that yeh didn't fight, yeh cowardly bunch o' nags? Are yeh happy Harry Potter's - d-dead . . . ?"

　　　Hagrid could not continue, but broke down in fresh tears. Harry wondered how many centaurs were watching their procession pass;
over them where they sood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the other trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.
he dared not open his eyes to look. Some of the Death Eaters called insults at the centaurs as they left them behind. A little later, Harry sensed, by a freshening of the air, that they had reached the edge of the forest.

"Stop."

　　　Harry thought that Hagrid must have been forced to obey Voldemort's command, because he lurched a little. And now a chill settled

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that's all! He says there must be wizards working undercover in the postal service who take care of – "

　　　"Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!" said Petunia, now as pale as she had been flushed. "Freak!" she spat at her sister, and she flounced off to where her parents stood…
talking. Hunched in a corner seat beside the window was Lily, her face pressed against the windowpane. 　　　Snape slid open the compartment door and sat down opposite Lily. She glanced at him and then looked back out of the window. She had been crying. "I don't want to talk to you," she said in a constricted voice.
　　　The scene dissolved again. Snape was hurrying along the corridor of the Hogwarts Express as it clattered through the countryside. He had already changed into his school robes, had perhaps taken the first opportunity to take off his dreadful Muggle clothes. At last he stopped, outside a compartment in which a group of rowdy boys were

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pointed toward Mr. Weasley, sitting at the Gryffindor table - "and I will take groups into the grounds. We'll need somebody to organize defense of the entrances or the passageways into the school -"
　　　He had almost forgotten about the Horcrux, almost forgotten that the battle was being fought so that he could search for it: The inexplicable absence of Ron and Hermione had momentarily driven every other thought from his mind. "Then go, Potter, go!"
　　　"Sounds like a job for us." called Fred, indicating himself and George, and Kingsley nodded his approval.

"All right, leaders up here and we'll divide up the troops!"

　　　"Potter," said Professor McGonagall, hurrying up to him, as students flooded the platform, jostling for position, receiving instructions, "Aren't you supposed to be looking for something?"

"What? Oh," said Harry, "oh yeah!"

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Neville, what's happened to you?"

　　　"What? This?" Neville dismissed his injuries with a shake of the head. "This is nothing, Seamus is worse. You'll see. Shall we get going then? Oh," he turned to Aberforth, "Ab, there might be a couple more people no the way."
　　　Neville held out his hand to Hermione and helped her to climb up onto the mantelpiece and into the tunnel; Ron followed, then Neville. Harry addressed Aberforth.
　　　"Couple more?" repeated Aberforth ominously. "What d'you mean, a couple more, Longbottom? There's a curfew and a Camwaulding Charm on the whole village!"

　　　"I know, that's why they'll be Apparating directly into the bar," said Neville. "Just send them down the passage when they get here, will you? Thanks a lot."

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Hermione," said Harry, as the clanking grew louder, "I've got to get up there, we've got to get rid of it –"

She raised her wand, pointed it at Harry, and whispered, "Levicorpus."

　　　Hoisted into the air by his ankle, Harry hit a suit of armor and replicas burst out of it like white-hot bodies, filling the cramped space. With screams of pain, Ron, Hermione, and the two goblins were knocked aside into other objects, which also began to replicate. Half buried in a rising tide of red-hot treasure, they struggled and yelled has Harry thrust the sword through the handle of Hufflepuff's cup, hooking it onto the blade.

　　　"Impervius!" screeched Hermione in an attempt to protect herself, Ron, and the goblins from the burning metal.

　　　Then the worst scream yet made Harry look down

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been tortured, and Ron's just refused to tell me anything –"

"We can't tell you what we're doing," said Harry flatly. "You're in the Order, Bill, you know Dumbledore left us a mission. We're not supposed to talk about it to anyone else."

　　　Fleur made an impatient noise, but Bill did not look at her; he was staring at Harry. His deeply scarred face was hard to read. Finally, Bill said, "All right. Who do you want to talk to first?"

　　　Harry hesitated. He knew what hung on his decision. There was hardly any time left; now was the moment to decide: Horcruxes or Hallows?

"Griphook," Harry said. "I'll speak to Griphook first."

　　　His heart was racing as if he had been sprinting and had just cleared an enormous obstacle.

"Up here, then," said Bill, leading the way.

Harry had walked up several steps before stopping and looking back.

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the only true thing he said to us was that there have been stories about extra-powerful

wands for hundreds of years."
centuries, usually in the possession of some Dark wizard who's boasting about them. Professor Binns mentioned some of them, but -- oh it's all nonsense. Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are
"There have?" asked Harry.

Hermione looked exasperated: The expression was so endearingly familiar that Harry and

Ron grinned at each other.

"The Deathstick, the Wand of Destiny, they crop up under different names through the


bigger and better than other people's"

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overwhelming instinct, told him that this was not Dark Magic. He set off in pursuit.

　　　Snow crunched beneath his feet, but the doe made no noise as she passed through the trees, for she was nothing but light. Deeper and deeper into the forest she led him, and Harry walked quickly, sure that when she stopped, she would allow him to approach her properly. And then she would speak and the voice would tell him what he needed to know.
　　　Though the darkness had swallowed her whole, her burnished image was still imprinted on his retinas; it obscured his vision, brightening when he lowered his eyelids, disorienting him. Now fear came: Her presence had meant safety.
　　　At last she came to a halt. She turned her beautiful head toward him once more, and he broke into a run, a question burning in him, but as he opened his lips to ask it, she vanished.

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Harry, here!"

　　　Hermione was two rows of tombstones away; he had to wade banging in his chest.

"Is it – ?"

"No, but look!"

　　　She pointed to the dark stone. Harry stooped down and saw , upon the frozen, lichen-spotted granite, the words Kendra Dumbledore and, a short way down her dates of birth and death, and Her Daughter Ariana. There was also a quotation:

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

　　　So Rita Skeeter and Muriel had got some of their facts right. The Dumbledore family had indeed lived here, and part of it had died here.

　　　Seeing the grave was worse than hearing about it. Harry could not help thinking that he and Dumbledore both had deep roots in this graveyard, and that Dumbledore ought to have told him so, yet he had never thought to

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don't understand," she whispered.

　　　"You're going to leave here with us," said Harry, pulling her to her feet. "Go , grab your children, and get out, get out of the country if you've got to. Disguise yourselves and run. You've seen how it is, you won't get anything like a fair hearing here."
　"It's the only spell she ever has trouble with," Harry told a completely bemused Mrs. Cattermole. "Bit unfortunate, really… Come on Hermione…." ‘Expecto patronum!" 　　　A silver otter burst from the end of Hermione's wand
　　　"Harry," said Hermione, "how are we going to get out of here with all those dementors outside the door?"

　　　"Patronuses," said Harry, pointing his wand at his own. The stag slowed and walked, still gleaming brightly, toward the door. "As many as we can muster; do yours, Hermione."

"Expec – Expecto patronum," said Hermione. Nothing happened.

　　

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"At the same time that they were smashing up the, more Death Eaters were forcing their way into every Order-connected house in the country. No deaths," he added quickly, forestalling the question, "but they were rough. They burned down Dedalus Diggle's house, but as you know he wasn't there, and they used the Cruciarus Curse on Tonks's family. Again, trying to find out where you went after you visited them. They're all right – shaken, obviously, but otherwise okay."

"The Death Eaters got through all those protective charms?"

　　　"What you've got to realize, Harry, is that the Death Eaters have got the full might of the Ministry on their side now," said Lupin. "They've got

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Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhisky, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his –"

"Yes, he sounds a real charmer," said Hermione, while Harry roared with laughter.

"Never married, for some reason," said Ron.
　　　"Viktor!" she shrieked, and dropped her small beaded bag, which made a loud thump quite disproportionate to its size. As she scrambled, blushing, to pick it up, she said "I didn't know you were – goodness – it's lovely to see
"You amaze me," said Hermione.

　　　They were all laughing so much that none of them noticed the latecomer, a dark-haired young man with a large, curved nose and thick black eyebrows, until he held out his invitation to Ron and said, with his eyes on Hermione, "You look vunderful."

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She dropped the syllabary onto the larger of the two piles and picked up Hogwarts, A History.

"Listen," said Harry.　　　"As we knew he would," he sighed, turning back to the books. "You know, I think I will take Hogwarts, A History. Even if we're not going back there, I don't think I'd feel right if I didn't have it with –" "Listen!" said Harry again. 　　　"No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago – years, really."

　　　He had sat up straight. Ron and Hermione looked at him with similar mixtures of resignation and defiance.

　　　"I know you said after Dumbledore's funeral that you wanted to come with me," Harry began.

"Here he goes," Ron said to Hermione, rolling his eyes.

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Here they recruited participants in the same way but this time measured their happiness at three time-points. The results again supported the theory with the effects of improved circumstances increasing Happiness, but the boost from a new activity being more lasting. Finally a third study along the same lines also found similar results.
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The study also tested how much these changes had been affected by hedonic adaptation (see sustainable happiness post) and variety. This was to make the comparison fair, so that both groups had not yet adapted to their new circumstances or activity and it was still providing variety - both factors thought important in sustainable Happiness.The results showed that those who had recently engaged in a new activity felt happier than those whose circumstances had improved. This provides some preliminary evidence but data collected over a period of time (longitudinal) is more convincing, so that is what Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2006) did in their second study.

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God's sake," Salahuddin shouted down the telephone, "give me Panikkar's number." But that was against hospital procedure. "You must judge," said the duty doctor, "if the time has come to bring him down." Bitch, Salahuddin Chamchawala mouthed. "Thanks a lot."
At three o"clock Changez was so weak that Salahuddin more or less carried him to the toilet. "Get the car out," he shouted at Nasreen and Kasturba. "We're going to the hospital. Now." The proof of Changez's decline was that, this last time, he permitted his son to help him out. "Black shit is bad," he said, panting for breath. His lungs had filled up alarmingly; the breath was like bubbles pushing through glue. "Some cancers are slow, but I think this is very fast. Deterioration is very rapid." And Sala-- huddin, the apostle of truth, told comforting lies: _Abba, don't worry. You'll be fine_. Changez Chamchawala shook his head. "I'm going, son," he said. His chest heaved; Salahuddin

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what?" Mishal replied in her grey, exhausted voice. "You keep talking about ruination. Then what difference is a Mercedes going to make?"
"You don't understand," Saeed wept. "Nobody understands me."
Gibreel dreamed a drought:
The land browned under the rainless skies. The corpses of buses and ancient monuments rotting in the fields beside the crops. Mirza Saced saw, through his shattered windscreen, the onset of calamity: the wild donkeys fucking wearily and dropping dead, while still conjoined, in the middle of the road, the trees standing on roots exposed by soil erosion and looking like huge wooden claws scrabbling for water in the earth, the destitute farmers being obliged to work for the state as manual labourers, digging a reservoir by the trunk road, an empty container for the rain that wouldn't fall. Wretched roadside lives: a woman with a bundle heading for a tent of stick and rag, a girl condemned to scour, each day, this pot, this pan, in her patch of filthy dust. "Are such

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Angels and devils -- who needed them? "Why demons, when man himself is a demon?" the Nobel Laureate Singer's "last demon" asked from his attic in Tishevitz. To which Chamcha's sense of balance, his much-to-be-said-forand-against reflex,, but the red tape surrounding his return to came to seem somehow irrelevant, as even the most stubborn of nightmares will once you've splashed your face, brushed your teeth and had a strong, hot drink. He began to make journeys into the outside world -- to those professional advisers, lawyer accountant agent, whom Pamela used to call "the Goons", and when sitting in the panelled, book- and ledgerlined stability of those offices more obstructive than he expected. The banks were taking their time about unblocking his accounts; he was obliged to borrow from Pamela. Nor was work easy to come by. His agent, Charlie Sellers, explained over the phone: "Clients get funny. They start talking about zombies, they feel sort of unclean: as "if they were

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sucks. And Mahound, unnerved, repeats: "Stop. This is incorrect." Now, however, the woman is attending to the soles of his feet, cupping her hands beneath his heel . . . he kicks out, in his confusion, and catches her in the throat. She falls, coughs, then prostrates herself before him, and says firmly: "There is no God but Al-Lah, and Mahound is his Prophet." Mahound calms himself, apologizes, extends a hand. "No harm will come to you," he assures her. "All who Submit are spared." But there is a strange confusion in him, and now he understands why, understands the anger, the bitter irony in her overwhelming, excessive, sensual adoration of his feet. The woman throws off her veil: Hind.
"The wife of Abu Simbel," she announces clearly, and a hush falls. "Hind," Mahound says. "I had not forgotten."
But, after a long instant, he nods. "You have Submitted. And are welcome in my tents."
The next day, amid the continuing conversions, Salman the Persian

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of the performance, keeping the heavy drapes almost permanently drawn in case the inconsistency of things caused him to see monsters out there, or moonscapes instead of the familiar Moscow Road.
"He was strictly a melting--pot man," Alicja said while attacking a large helping of tsimmis. "When he changed our name I told him, Otto, it isn't required, this isn't America, it's London W-- two; but he wanted to wipe the slate clean, even his Jewishness, excuse me but I know. The fights with the Board of Deputies! All very civilized, parliamentary language throughout, but bareknuckle stuff none the less." After his death she went straight back to Cohen, the synagogue, Chanukah and Bloom's. "No munched, and waved a sudden, distracted fork. "That picture. I was crazy for it. Lana Turner, am I right? And Mahalia Jackson singing in a church."
Otto Cone as a man of seventy-plus jumped into an empty lift-shaft and died.

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Objectively," he said, with a small self--deprecating smile, "what has happened here? A: Wrongful arrest, intimidation, violence. Two: Illegal detention, unknown medical experimentation in hospital," -- murmurs of assent here, as memories of intra-vaginal inspections, Depo-Provera scandals, unauthorized post-partum sterilizations, and, further back, the knowledge of Third World drug-dumping arose in every person present to give substance to the speaker's insinuations, -- because what you believe depends on what you've seen, -- not only what is visible, but what you are prepared to look in the face, -- and anyhow, something had to explain horns and hoofs; in those policed medical wards, anything could happen -- "And thirdly," Jumpy continued, "psychological breakdown, loss of sense of self, inability to cope. We've seen it all before."
Nobody argued, not even Hind; there were some truths from which it was impossible to dissent. "Ideologically," Jumpy said, "I refuse to accept

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for outward show. The instant it touches my lips, it turns to water_. Fiend, the Imam is wont to thunder. Apostate, blasphemer, fraud. When the future comes such individuals will be judged, he tells his men. Water will have its day and blood will flow like wine. Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. Who has not dreamed this dream, of being a king for a day? -- But the Imam dreams of more than a day; feels, emanating from his fingertips, the arachnid strings with which he will control the movement of history.
No: not history.
His is a stranger dream.
o o o
His son, water-carrying Khalid, bows before his father like a pilgrim at a shrine, informs him that the guard on duty outside the sanctum is Salman Farsi. Bilal is at the radio transmitter, broadcasting the day's message, on the agreed frequency, to Desh.