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第1章 忠臣与重臣

His jinx hit Amycus in the chest: he gave a piglike squeal of pain, was lifted off his feet and slammed into the opposite wall, slid down it, and fell out of sight behind Ron, Professor McGonagall, and Lupin, each of whom was battling a separate Death Eater. Beyond them, Harry saw Tonks fighting an enormous blond wizard who was sending curses flying in all directions, so that they ricocheted off the walls around them, cracking stone, shattering the nearest window—

hese things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to

her lips to his; then, leaned over him, and looked at him.

Heep’s pale face looking out of the window. Uriah, having taken

He stopped, and, looking in my face, said, ‘Daisy, I believe you

him safely back to you.

him.”

hoisted on the shoulders of the bearers, and carried into the street.