said Lucius Malfoy, sneering
as he looked around the small cabin. "I simply called at the school and
was told that the headmaster was here."
"And what exactly did you want with me, Lucius?" said Dumbledore.
He spoke politely, but the fire was still blazing in his blue eyes.
"Dreadful thing, Dumbledore," said Malfoy lazily, taking out a long roll
of parchment, "but the governors feel it"s time for you to step aside.
This is an Order of Suspension - you"ll find all twelve signatures on it.
I"m afraid we feel you"re losing your touch. How many attacks have
there been now? Two more this afternoon, wasn"t it? At this rate,
there"ll be no Muggle-borns left at Hogwarts, and we all know what
an awful loss that would be to the school."
"Oh, now, see here, Lucius," said Fudge, looking alarmed,
"Dumbledore suspended - no, no - last thing we want just now ..."
"The appointment - or suspension - of the headmaster is a matter for
the governors, Fudge," said Mr. Malfoy smoothly. "And as
Dumbledore has failed to stop these attacks -"
"See here, Malfoy, if Dumbledore can"t stop them," said Fudge, whose
upper lip was sweating now, "I mean to say, who can?"
"That remains to be seen," said Mr. Malfoy with a nasty smile. "But as
all twelve of us have voted -"
Hagrid leapt to his feet, his shaggy black head grazing the ceiling.
"An" how many did yeh have ter threaten an" blackmail before they
agreed, Malfoy, eh?" he roared.
"Dear, dear, you know, that temper of yours will lead you into trouble
one of these days, Hagrid," said Mr. Malfoy. "I would advise you not
to shout at the Azkaban guards like that. They won"t like it at all."
"Yeh can" take Dumbledore!" yelled Hagrid, making Fang the
boarhound cower and whimper in his basket. "Take him away, an" the
Muggle-borns won" stand a chance! There"ll be killin" next!"
"Calm yourself, Hagrid," said Dumbledore sharply. He looked at
Lucius Malfoy.
"If the governors want my removal, Lucius, I shall of course step aside -"
"But -" stuttered Fudge.
"No!" growled Hagrid.
Dumbledore had not taken his bright blue eyes off Lucius Malfoy"s
cold gray ones.
"However," said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that
none of them could miss a word, "you will find that I will only truly have
left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help
will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
For a second, Harry was almost sure Dumbledore"s eyes flickered towards
the corner where he and Ron stood hidden.
"Admirable sentiments," said Malfoy, bowing. "We shall all miss your - er -
highly individual way of running things, Albus, and only hope that your
successor will manage to prevent any - ah - "killin"s"."
He strode to the cabin door, opened it and bowed Dumbledore out. Fudge,
fiddling with his bowler, waited for Hagrid to go ahead of him, but Hagrid
stood his ground, took a deep breath and said carefully, "If anyone wanted
ter find out some stuff, all they"d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders.
That"d lead "em right! That"s all I"m sayin"."
Fudge stared at him in amazement.
"All right, I"m comin"," said Hagrid, pulling on his moleskin overcoat. But
as he was about to follow Fudge through the door, he stopped again and said
loudly, "An" someone"ll need ter feed Fang while I"m away."
The door banged shut and Ron pulled the Invisibility Cloak off.
"We"re in trouble now," he said hoarsely. "No Dumbledore. They might as
well close the school tonight. There"ll be an attack a day with him gone."
Fang started howling, scratching at the closed door.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
ARAGOG
Summer was creeping over the grounds around the castle; sky and lake
alike turned periwinkle blue and flowers large as cabbages burst into
bloom in the greenhouses. But with no Hagrid visible from the castle
windows, striding the grounds with Fang at his heels, the scene didn"t
look right to Harry; no better, in fact, than the inside of the castle,
where things were so horribly wrong.
Harry and Ron had tried to visit Hermione, but visitors were now
barred from the hospital wing.
"We"re taking no more chances," Madam Pomfrey told them severely
through a crack in the infirmary door. "No, I"m sorry, there"s every
chance the attacker might come back to finish these people off ..."
With Dumbledore gone, fear had spread as never before, so that the
sun warming the castle walls outside seemed to stop at the mullioned
windows. There was barely a face to be seen in the school
that didn"t look worried and tense, and any laughter that rang through
the corridors sounded shrill and unnatural and was quickly stifled.
Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore"s final words to himself "I will
only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me ... Help will
always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it." But what good
were these words?
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