ron, full of turkey and cake and with nothg ysterio to
bother hi, fell asleep alost as on as he≈39;d drawn the curtas
of his four-poster harry leaned over the side of his own bed and
pulled the cloak out fro under it
his father≈39;s this had been his father≈39;s he let the aterial
flow over his hands, soother than silk, light as air e it well,
the note had said
he had to try it, now he slipped out of bed and wrapped the
cloak around hiself lookg down at his legs, he saw only oonlight
and shadows it was a very funny feelg
e it well
suddenly, harry felt wide-awake the whole of hogwarts was
open to hi this cloak excitent flooded through hi as he
stood there the dark and silence he uld go anywhere this,
anywhere, and filch would never know
ron grunted his sleep should harry wake hi? thg
held hi back -- his father≈39;s cloak -- he felt that this ti --
the first ti -- he wanted to e it alone
he crept out of the doritory, down the stairs, across the
on roo, and clibed through the portrait hole
&ot;who≈39;s there?&ot; sawked the fat dy harry said nothg he
walked ickly down the rridor
where should he go? he sped, his heart racg, and
thought and then it ca to hi the restricted section the
library he≈39;d be able to read as long as he liked, as long as it
took to fd out who fl was he set off, drag the visibility
cloak tight around hi as he walked
the library was pitch-bck and very eerie harry lit a p
to see his way along the rows of s the p looked as if it
was floatg along idair, and even though harry uld feel his
ar supportg it, the sight gave hi the creeps
the restricted section was right at the back of the library step
pg carefully over the rope that separated these s fro the
rest of the library, he held up his p to read the titles
they didn≈39;t tell hi uch their peelg, faded gold letters
spelled words nguas harry uldn≈39;t understand had no
title at all one had a dark sta on it that looked horribly
like blood the hairs on the back of harry≈39;s neck prickled aybe
he was iagg it, aybe not, but he thought a fat whisperg
was g fro the s, as though they knew one was there
who shouldn≈39;t be
he had to start where settg the p down carefully on the
floor, he looked along the botto shelf for an terestglookg
a r bck and silver vo caught his eye he pulled it
out with difficulty, becae it was very heavy, and, bancg it
on his knee, let it fall open
a piercg, bloodcurdlg shriek split the silence -- the
was screag! harry snapped it shut, but the shriek went on and
on, one high, unbroken, earsplittg note he stubled backward
and knocked over his p, which went out at once panickg, he
heard footsteps g down the rridor outside -- stuffg the
shriekg back on the shelf, he ran fo
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