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began adding weights to their scales, but nobody spoke. The concentration within the room was almost tangible. Harry saw Malfoy riffling feverishly through his copy of Advanced Potion-Making., It could not have been clearer that Malfoy really wanted that lucky day. Harry bent swiftly over the tattered book Slughorn had lent him.
To his annoyance he saw that the previous owner had scribbled all over the pages, so that the margins were as black as the printed portions. Bending low to decipher the ingredients (even here, the previous owner had made annotations and crossed things out) Harry hurried off toward the store cupboard to find what he needed. As he dashed back to his cauldron, he saw Malfoy cutting up Valerian roots as fast as he could.

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Mrs. Weasley squeezed past them and opened the kitchen window. One, two, three, the owls soared through it and landed on the table in a neat line. All three of them lifted their right legs.
Harry moved forward. The letter addressed to him was tied to the leg of the owl in the middle. He untied it with fumbling fingers. To his left, Ron was trying to detach his own results; to his right, Hermione's hands were shaking so much she was making her whole owl tremble.
Nobody in the kitchen spoke. At last, Harry managed to detach the envelope. He slit it open quickly and unfolded the parchment inside.
Ordinary Wizarding Level Results
Pass Grades:
Outstanding (O)
Exceeds Expectations (E)
Acceptable (A)
Fail Grades:
Poor (P)
Dreadful (D)
Troll (T)
Harry James Potter has achieved:
Astronomy A
Care of Magical Creatures E
Charms E

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"She is no niece of ours, my Lord," she cried over the outpouring of mirth. "We – Narcissa and I – have never set eyes on our sister since she married the Mudblood. This brat has nothing to do with either of us, nor any beast she marries."

　　　"What say you, Draco?" asked Voldemort, and though his voice was quiet, it carried clearly through the catcalls and jeers. "Will you babysit the cubs?"

　　　The hilarity mounted; Draco Malfoy looked in terror at his father, who was staring down into his own lap, then caught his mother's eye. She shook

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Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting Indeed, one hour after, Japanese air squadrons have commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu. The Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his co1leagues, delivered to our Secretary of States a forma1 reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seems useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack. It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned, many days, or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

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Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names but when the baby was born, none of them seemed right,” her agent Robert Garlock said.“Then 'Mia’ came to them and it seemed just right. There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name,” he added. Winslet now plans to take a break from her acting career to bring up her daughter, the Daily Mail reported.In March, Winslet said she had no fears about motherhood disrupting her movie career.“I’ve never been one for changing what is real in order to make my career buzz,” she said.“My career comes second. There are some actors who do back-to-back jobs and are anxious when others are in the limelight

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More than 89,000 residents of east Texas, Arkansas and northwest Louisiana remained without electricity on December 27 after an ice storm battered the region on Christmas Day, a spokesman for AEP-Southwestern Electric Power Co. said.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A deadly storm bearing ice and snow moved across the mid-southern United States, paralyzing Arkansas and Oklahoma with widespread power outages and ice-coated roadways. Half a million people had no electricity as a layer of ice up to two inches thick toppled trees and snapped power lines from New Mexico to Arkansas. Police said 16 people died in weather-related accidents after the storm started in New Mexico on Christmas Day. As the system moved eastward, it dumped a record 20 inches of snow on northern Texas.

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announcement sent the Dow Jones industrial average up almost 3 percent by the close, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index surged more than 14 percent, its biggest daily gain ever. Skyrocketing stocks took the shine off government bonds, whose prices tumbled. The U.S. dollar rose against major currencies. "These actions were taken in light of further weakening of sales and production, and in the context of lower consumer confidence, tight conditions in some segments of financial markets, and high energy prices sapping household and business purchasing power," the central bank said in a statement. "Moreover, inflation pressures remain contained. Nonetheless, to date there is little evidence to suggest that longer-term advances in technology and associated gains in productivity are abating," it added.

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select audience was treated to a four-hour documentary film on Tuesday showing top politicians, retired and serving generals and middle-men carry out a US$870,000 deal to sell night vision devices to the Indian Army by paying off the elite in the capital's corridors of power. "Our job was to blow the whistle on corruption in India's defense procurement. We wanted to nail them down," says Tarun J Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka.com. Commissions in defense deals are outlawed in India and conviction carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison. Laxman admits receiving $2,175, but says the money was given to the BJP's party fund, and that he was within his rights to accept a donation. Laxman, the first dalit (untouchable) president of the BJP, is credited with attempts to project a new face of the BJP focussing on minorities. He told the prime minister

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. audiences are usually regarded as being cold and stiff, but in this instance Vega could not have found a better, more devoted crowd to try out the new stuff. Vega said early on that she would take requests from the crowd, since the room was small enough for her to see them. Following "Penitant," someone asked her to "tell us about Millie," referring to a short story from her collected writings that came out last year. She explained about the book, then apologized, saying, "This seems like a big tease now, since I don't have the book with me." Someone from in the front responded by handing her a copy of the book. Laughing, Vega said, "I can do the new stuff later. And the old stuff," then proceeded to add reading to the night's itinerary. Before handing the book back to the audience member, she inscribed it. That exchange pretty much summed up the bond between Vega and the audience. The intimate setting teamed with her long absence combined to make it feel like a reunion of friends rather a concert.Much of the credit for that goes to Vega, who seems single-handedly capable of

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An exceptionally preserved skeleton of a petite dinosaur clad in a jacket of downy feathers is more evidence that feathers arose for warmth, not for flight, scientists announced today.
The fossil is the first feathered dinosaur discovered with its fluffy body covering fully preserved and scientists claim the find provides further evidence for the theory that modern birds evolved from meat-eating dinosaurs. Over the last two decades, most paleontologists have accepted the theory that present-day birds evolved from a group of meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods. A minority remain skeptical, claiming that the evolutionary timing can't make sense. This specimen bolsters arguments that our fine feathered friends did evolve from dinosaurs.

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virtually nothing about genetics, and his pioneering work earned him a membership in the National Academy of Sciences.Hedges and Sibley collaborated on a number of research papers, but they remained particularly troubled by the flamingo. Even their early research, several years ago, suggested the flamingo was an odd bird indeed, closely related to the grebe. Strength in Numbers"It was really astonishing because there is no morphological trait that would even suggest that," Hedges says.Fast forward a few years, and there's Hedges, cleaning out his desk and glancing over his correspondence with Sibley. One note from the grand old man of ornithology noted that his former graduate student, John A. W. Kirsch, got the same result using an entirely different technique.

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>One of the icons of the civil aviation industry is returning," said Chris Yates, aviation safety editor at Jane's Transport in London. "It's the shot in the arm that the industry needs at this moment."Despite a 30-percent drop in trans-Atlantic travel since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the airlines say they are confident of filling the 100-seat planes. British Airways says it has already sold 7,000 seats.Flying above turbulence at twice the speed of sound, the Concorde crosses the Atlantic in about half the flying time of conventional jets. A roundtrip Paris-New York ticket costs about $7,300, while a London-New York roundtrip is about $10,000.Service is being scaled back — British Airways and Air France have each modified three Concordes, allowing for leeway to determine customer demand

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Interests - Think about what he might like to do if he had the spare time to do it. Fishing? Cars? Planes? Science? Or Computers?History - What did he really enjoy in his past time? Was he a flyer in the air force? Did he play in a college jazz band? Look for gifts like an important radio broadcast that affected his life. Geographical maps, books, foods from a favored country he has talked about. Add a note saying that this gift reminded me of the stories you share with me. Another important is nostalgic history you two shared togrther. Go to that ball game together or explore a passion he tried to teach you as a kid and you just weren't interested at that time. Finally his needs. Look for gifts that are practical. Items like chair massagers or warmers, good quality clothing that he might have selected for himself. Don't make him too old a man, be a little respectful to find gifts that emphasizes his strengths.

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Dressed in a shining blue backless dress, burst into tears after winning the hearts of the audience, Miss Peru said she would miss most about the competition was its host town, Sanya.
Twenty-year-old Miss Peru was crowned Miss World 2004 in Sanya on Hainan Province December 4, 2004. Dressed in a shining blue backless dress, burst into tears at the announcement, after winning the hearts of the audience Miss Peru said she would miss most about the competition was its host town, Sanya. "I don't speak very good English. But the smiles of the people transcend language," she said through an interpreter. This was the second year Miss World was held in Sanya, and organizers have applied to hold the event at the same venue next year, Xinhua news agency reported.

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though it isn't much of an animal, I did have a lot of trouble stealing it.SCARLETT: I'm going home if I have to walk every step of the way! I'll kill you if you try to stop me, I will! I will!I will! I will!RHETT: It's all right, darling, it's all right. Now you shall go home. I guess anybody who did what you've done today can take care of Sherman. Stop crying. Now blow your nose like a good little girl...there...SCARLETT: Prissy, what are you doing? PRISSY: I'm packing, Miss Scarlett. SCARLETT: Well, stop it. Come and get the baby .PRISSY: Yes.SCARLETT: Melanie, Melanie... RHETT: Mrs. Wilkes. We're taking you to Tara. MELANIE: Tara...SCARLETT: It's the only way, Melanie. MELANIE: No...

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an only child for eight years and I did long for a brother and sister. Mother told me to pray for one--and pray I did, believe me. Well, one day Aunt Nellie came to me and said, `Cornelia, there is a little brother for you upstairs in your ma's room. You can go up and see him.' I was so excited and delighted I just flew upstairs. And old Mrs. Flagg lifted up the baby for me to see. Lord, Anne, dearie, I never was so disappointed in my life. You see, I'd been praying for A brother two years older than myself."
"How long did it take you to get over your disappointment?" asked Anne, amid her laughter.
"Well, I had a spite at Providence for a good spell, and for weeks I wouldn't even look at the baby. Nobody knew why, for I never told. Then he began to get real cute, and held out his wee hands to me and I began to get fond of him. But I didn't get really reconciled to him until one day a school chum came to see him and said she thought he was awful small for his age. I just got boiling mad, and I sailed right into her, and told her she didn't know a nice baby when she saw one, and ours was the nicest baby in the world. And after that I just worshipped

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It would be stranger if they weren't," said Marilla crisply. Now that all was safely over, Marilla was herself again.
"Oh, I know--but it seems as if they couldn't be quite finished, you know--and they are, even to the tiny nails. And his hands--just look at his hands, Marilla."
"They appear to be a good deal like hands," Marilla conceded.
"See how he clings to my finger. I'm sure he knows me already. He cries when the nurse takes him away. Oh, Marilla, do you think--you don't think, do you--that his hair is going to be red?"
"I don't see much hair of any color," said Marilla. "I wouldn't worry about it, if I were you, until it becomes visible."
"Marilla, he has hair--look at that fine little down all over his head. Anyway, nurse

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"You are entirely and wholeheartedly welcome to the loan of any book on them."
"You are setting a feast of fat things before me," said Leslie, joyously. Then, as the clock struck ten, she rose, half unwillingly.
"I must go. I didn't realise it was so late. Captain Jim is always saying it doesn't take long to stay an hour. But I've stayed two--and oh, but I've enjoyed them," she added frankly.
"Come often," said Anne and Gilbert. They had risen and stood together in the firelight's glow. Leslie looked at them--youthful, hopeful, happy, typifying all she had missed and must forever miss. The light went out of her face and eyes; the girl vanished; it was the sorrowful, cheated woman who answered the invitation almost coldly and got herself away with a pitiful haste.

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Poor, poor girl!" said Anne again. Her own happiness seemed to reproach her. What right had she to be so happy when another human soul must be so miserable?
"Will you tell me just what Leslie said and how she acted the night you met her on the shore?" asked Miss Cornelia.
She listened intently and nodded her satisfaction.
"You thought she was stiff and cold, Anne, dearie, but I can tell you she thawed out wonderful for her. She must have taken to you real strong. I'm so glad. You may be able to help her a good deal. I was thankful when I heard that a young couple was coming to this house, for I hoped it would mean some friends for Leslie; especially if you belonged to the race that knows Joseph. You will be her friend, won't you, Anne, dearie?"
"Indeed I will, if she'll let me," said Anne, with all her own sweet, impulsive earnestness.
"No, you must be her friend, whether she'll let you or not," said Miss Cornelia resolutely. "Don't

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About Frank Dicksee: The English Victorian painter and illustrator,Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1870 and achieved early success. He was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became its President in 1924.Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee was knighted in 1925, and named to the Royal Victorian Order by King George V in 1927.Romeo and Juliet of his works is keeping hottest for over hundred years.

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That sounds very like a jealous remark, Stella Maynard," said Aunt Jamesina rebukingly.
"It does -- but I am not jealous," said Stella calmly. "I love Anne and I like Roy. Everybody says she is making a brilliant match, and even Mrs. Gardner thinks her charming now. It all sounds as if it were made in heaven, but I have my doubts. Make the most of that, Aunt Jamesina."
Roy asked Anne to marry him in the little pavilion on the harbor shore where they had talked on the rainy day of their first meeting. Anne thought it very romantic that he should have chosen that spot. And his proposal was as beautifully worded as if he had copied it, as one of Ruby Gillis' lovers had done, out of a Deportment of Courtship and Marriage. The whole effect was quite flawless. And it was also sincere. There was no doubt that Roy meant what he said. There was no false note to jar the symphony. Anne felt that she ought to be thrilling from head to foot. But she wasn't; she was horribly cool. When Roy paused for his answer she opened her lips to say her fateful yes. And then -- she found herself trembling as if she were reeling back from a precipice. To her came one of those moments when we realize, as by a blinding flash of illumination, more than all our previous years have taught us. She pulled her hand from Roy's.

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Just imagine -- this night week I'll be in Avonlea -- delightful thought!" said Anne, bending over the box in which she was packing Mrs. Rachel Lynde's quilts. "But just imagine -- this night week I'll be gone forever from Patty's Place -- horrible thought!"
"I wonder if the ghost of all our laughter will echo through the maiden dreams of Miss Patty and Miss Maria," speculated Phil.
Miss Patty and Miss Maria were coming home, after having trotted over most of the habitable globe.
"We'll be back the second week in May" wrote Miss Patty. "I expect Patty's Place will seem rather small after the Hall of the Kings at Karnak, but I never did like big places to live in. And I'll be glad enough to be home again. When you start traveling late in life you're apt to do too much of it because you know you haven't much time left, and it's a thing that grows on you. I'm afraid Maria will never be contented again."

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About Amedeo Modigliani: The Italian artist,Amedeo Modigliani was born into a Jewish family in Tuscany.Modigliani worked in Micheli's Art School from 1898 to 1900. Here his earliest formal artistic instruction took place in an atmosphere deeply steeped in a study of the styles.Modigliani died penniless and destitute - managing only one solo exhibition in his life and most of were given away in exchange for meals in restaurants.javascript:void(0)

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YOU are different. I believe you do love it and will be good to it. You can have it."
"If -- if we can afford to pay what you ask for it," hesitated Anne.
Miss Patty named the amount required. Anne and Priscilla looked at each other. Priscilla shook her head.
"I'm afraid we can't afford quite so much," said Anne, choking back her disappointment. "You see, we are only college girls and we are poor."
"What were you thinking you could afford?" demanded Miss Patty, ceasing not to knit.
Anne named her amount. Miss Patty nodded gravely.
"That will do. As I told you, it is not strictly necessary that we should let it at all. We are not rich, but we have enough to go to Europe on. I have never been in Europe in my life, and never expected or wanted to go. But my niece there, Maria Spofford, has taken a fancy to go. Now, you know a young person like Maria can't go globetrotting alone."
"No -- I -- I suppose not," murmured Anne, seeing that Miss Patty was quite solemnly

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Of course not. So I have to go along to look after her. I expect to enjoy it, too; I'm seventy years old, but I'm not tired of living yet. I daresay I'd have gone to Europe before if the idea had occurred to me. We shall be away for two years, perhaps three. We sail in June and we shall send you the key, and leave all in order for you to take possession when you choose. We shall pack away a few things we prize especially, but all the rest will be left."
"Will you leave the china dogs?" asked Anne timidly.
"Would you like me to?"
"Oh, indeed, yes. They are delightful."
A pleased expression came into Miss Patty's face.
"I think a great deal of those dogs," she said proudly. "They are over a hundred years old, and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago. Spofford Avenue was called after my brother Aaron."

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the back of his hand over the smears. "And I'll wash behind my ears too, without being told. I remembered to this morning, Marilla. I don't forget half as often as I did. But. . ." and Davy sighed. . ."there's so many corners about a fellow that it's awful hard to remember them all. Well, if I can't go to Miss Lavendar's I'll go over and see Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Harrison's an awful nice woman, I tell you. She keeps a jar of cookies in her pantry a-purpose for little boys, and she always gives me the scrapings out of a pan she's mixed up a plum cake in. A good many plums stick to the sides, you see. Mr. Harrison was always a nice man, but he's twice as nice since he got married over again. I guess getting married makes folks nicer. Why don't you get married, Marilla? I want to know."
Marilla's state of single blessedness had never been a sore point with her, so she answered amiably, with an exchange of significant looks with Anne, that she supposed it was because nobody would have her.
"But maybe you never asked anybody to have you," protested Davy.
"Oh, Davy," said Dora primly, shocked into speaking without being spoken to, "it's the

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Take your seat and work out the six problems on page eighty-four of your arithmetic for punishment," said Anne. St. Clair looked rather amazed at her tone but he went meekly to his desk and took out his slate. Then he stealthily passed a small parcel to Joe Sloane across the aisle. Anne caught him in the act and jumped to a fatal conclusion about that parcel.
Old Mrs. Hiram Sloane had lately taken to making and selling "nut cakes" by way of adding to her scanty income. The cakes were specially tempting to small boys and for several weeks Anne had had not a little trouble in regard to them. On their way to school the boys would invest their spare cash at Mrs. Hiram's, bring the cakes along with them to school, and, if possible, eat them and treat their mates during school hours. Anne had warned them that if they brought any more cakes to school they would be confiscated; and yet here was St. Clair Donnell coolly passing a parcel of them, wrapped up in the blue and white striped paper Mrs. Hiram used, under her very eyes.
"Joseph," said Anne quietly, "bring that parcel here."
Joe, startled and abashed, obeyed. He was a fat urchin who always blushed

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Don't you think it's a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child. . . any child?" exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness.
"Well," said Gilbert slowly, torn between his real convictions and his wish to measure up to Anne's ideal, "there's something to be said on both sides. I don't believe in whipping children much. I think, as you say, Anne, that there are better ways of managing as a rule, and that corporal punishment should be a last resort. But on the other hand, as Jane says, I believe there is an occasional child who can't be influenced in any other way and who, in short, needs a whipping and would be improved by it. Corporal punishment as a last resort is to be my rule."
Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither. Jane tossed her head.
"I'll whip my pupils when they're naughty. It's the shortest and easiest way of convincing them."
Anne gave Gilbert a disappointed glance.
"I shall never whip a child," she repeated firmly. "I feel sure it isn't either right or necessary