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第0章 进入学院

there anything about me which would reveal my proceedings in

time, they would appear. Troubled as the future was, it was the

the way of my predecessor, and should succeed to his dismal story

the speaker in the darkness.

things.’

The two newcomers marched across the yard toward the garden and the lantern-lit table, where everybody sat in silence, watching them draw closer. As Scrimgeour came within range of the lantern light. Harry saw that he looked much older than the last time that had met, scraggy and grim.

The revelation that his batty old cat-obsessed neighbour knew what dementors were was almost as big a shock to Harry as meeting two of them down the alleyway. ‘You're—you're a witch?’

Then, came straggling groups of labourers going to their work;

There was a murmur of interest around the group at this.