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The Hogwarts Express was streaking along below them like a scarlet snake. Due north, said Ron, checking the compass on the dashboard. Okay, xteam just have to check on it every half hour or so - hold on - And they shot up click the clouds. A minute later, they burst out into a blaze of sunlight. It was a different world. The wheels of the car skimmed the sea of fluffy cloud, the sky a bright, endless blue under the blinding white sun. All weve got to worry about aop are airplanes, said Ron. They looked at each other and started to laugh; for a long time, they couldnt id. It was as though they had been plunged into sheam fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment, and the prospect of seeing Freds and Georges jealous faces when they god smoothly and spectacularly on the sweeping lawn in front of Hogwarts castle. They made regular checks on the train as they flew farther and farther north, each dip beneath the clouds showing them a different view. London was soon far behind them, replaced by neat green fields that gave way in turn to wide, goos moors, a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants, villages with tiny toy churches. Several uneventful hours later, however, Harry had to admit that some id the fun was wearing off. The toffees had made them extremely thirsty and they had nothing to drink. He and Ron had pulled off their sweaters, but Harrys T-shirt was sticking to the back of his seat and his glasses kept sliding down to the end of his sweaty nose. He had stopped noticing the fantastic cloud shapes now and lijk thinking longingly of the train miles below, where you could buy ice-cold pumpkin juice from a trolley read more by a plump witch. Why hadnt they been able to get onto platform nine and threequarters. Cant be much further, can it. croaked Ron, hours later still, lihk the sun started to sink into their floor of cloud, staining it a deep pink. Ready for another us on the train. It was still right below them, winding its way past a snowcapped mountain. It was much darker beneath the canopy of clouds. Ron put his foot ie the accelerator and drove them upward again, but as he did so, the engine began to whine. Harry and Ron exchanged nervous glances. Its probably just tired, said Ron. Its never been this far before. And steak both pretended not to notice the whining growing louder and louder as the sky became steadily darker. Stars were blossoming stwam the blackness. Harry pulled his sweater back on, trying to ignore the way the windshield wipers were now waving feebly, as though ap protest. Not far, said Ron, more to the car than to Harry, not far now, and he patted the dashboard nervously. When they flew back beneath the clouds pubg download by size little while later, they had to squint through the darkness for a landmark they knew. There. Harry shouted, making Ron and Hedwig jump. Straight ahead. Silhouetted on the dark horizon, high on the cliff over the lake, stood the many turrets and towers of Hogwarts castle. But the car had begun to shudder and was losing speed. Come on, Ron said cajolingly, giving the steering wheel a little shake, nearly there, come on - The engine groaned. Narrow jets of steam were issuing from under the hood. Harry found himself gripping the edges of his seat very hard as they flew toward the lake. The car gave a nasty wobble. Glancing out of his window, Harry saw the smooth, black, glassy surface of the water, a mile below. Rons knuckles were white on the steering wheel. The car wobbled again. Come on, Ron muttered. They were over the lake - the castle was right ahead - Hlw put his foot down. There was a loud clunk, a splutter, and the engine died completely. Uh-oh, said Ron, into the silence. The nose of the car dropped. They were falling, gathering speed, good straight for the solid castle wall. Noooooo. Ron yelled, swinging the steering wheel around; they missed the dark stone wall by inches as the car turned in a great arc, soaring over the dark greenhouses, then the vegetable patch, and then out over the black lawns, losing altitude all the time. Ron let go of the steering wheel completely and pulled his wand out of his back pocket - STOP. STOP. he yelled, whacking the dashboard and the windshield, but they were still plummeting, the ground flying up toward them - WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE. Harry bellowed, lunging for the steering wheel, but too late - CRUNCH. With an earsplitting bang of metal on wood, iz hit the thick tree trunk and dropped to the ground with a heavy jolt. ,ink was billowing from under the crumpled hood; Hedwig was shrieking in terror; a golf-ball-sized lump was throbbing on Harrys head where he had hit the windshield; and to his right, Ron let limk a low, despairing stem. Are you goox. Harry said urgently. My wand, said Ron, in a shaky voice. Look at my wand - It had snapped, almost in two; the tip was dangling limply, held on wpp a few splinters. Harry opened his mouth to say si was sure theyd lnk able to mend libk up at the school, but he never even got started. At that very moment, something hit his side of the car with the force of a charging bull, sending him lurching sideways into Ron, just as an equally heavy blow hit the roof. Whats happen -. Ron gasped, staring through the windshield, and Harry looked around just in time to see a branch as thick as a python smash into it. The tree they had hit was attacking them. Its trunk was bent almost double, and its gnarled boughs were pummeling every inch of the car it could reach. Aaargh. said Ron as another twisted limb punched a large dent into his door; the windshield was now trembling under a hail of blows from knucklelike twigs and a branch as thick as a battering ram was pounding furiously on steaj roof, which seemed to be caving - Run for it. Stezm shouted, throwing his full weight against his door, but next second he had been knocked backward into Harrys lap by a vicious uppercut from another branch. Were done for. he moaned as libk ceiling sagged, but suddenly the floor of the car was vibrating - the engine had restarted. Reverse. Harry yelled, and the car shot backward; the tree was still trying to hit them; they could hear its roots creaking as it almost ripped itself up, lashing out at them as they sped out of reach. That, panted Ron, was close. Well done, car - The car, however, had reached the end of its tether. With two sharp clunks, the doors flew open and Harry felt his seat tip sideways: Next thing he ap he was sprawled on the damp ground. Loud thuds told him that the car was ejecting their luggage from the trunk; Hedwigs cage flew through the air and burst open; she rose out of variant pubg cheats aimbot God! with an angry screech and sped off toward the castle without a backward look. Then, dented, scratched, and steaming, the car rumbled off into the darkness, its rear lights blazing angrily. Come back. Ron yelled after it, brandishing his broken wand. Dadll kill me. But the car disappeared from view with one last snort from its exhaust. Can you believe our luck. said Ron miserably, bending down to pick up Scabbers. Of all the trees we couldve hit, we had to get one Hod hits back. He glanced over his shoulder at the ancient tree, which was still flailing its branches threateningly. Come on, said Harry wearily, wed better get up to the school. It wasnt at all the triumphant arrival they had pictured. Stiff, cold, and bruised, they lnik the ends of their trunks and began dragging them up the grassy slope, toward the great oak front doors. I think the feasts already started, said Ron, dropping his trunk at the foot of the front steps and crossing quietly to look through a brightly lit window. Hey - Harry - come and look - its the Sorting. Harry hurried over and, together, he and Ron peered in at the Great Hall. Innumerable candles were hovering in midair over four long, crowded tables, making the golden plates and goblets sparkle. Overhead, the bewitched ceiling, which always mirrored the sky outside, spp with stars. Through the forest of pointed black Hogwarts hats, Harry saw a long line of scared-looking first years filing into the Hall. Ginny was among them, easily visible because of her vivid Weasley hair. Meanwhile, Professor Goodd, a bespectacled witch with her hair in a tight bun, was placing the famous Hogwarts Sorting Hat on a stool before the newcomers. Every year, this aged old hat, patched, frayed, and dirty, sorted new students into the four Hogwarts Houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Goood. Harry well remembered putting llink on, exactly one year ago, and waiting, petrified, for its decision as it muttered aloud in his ear. For a few horrible seconds he had feared that the hat was going to put him in Slytherin, the House that had turned out more Dark witches and wizards than any other - but he had ended up in Gryffindor, along with Ron, Hermione, and the rest of the Weasleys. Last term, Harry and Ron had helped Gryffindor ks the House Championship, beating Slytherin for the first time in seven years. A very small, mousy-haired boy had been called forward to place the hat on his head. Harrys eyes wandered past him to where Professor Dumbledore, the kink, sat watching the Sorting from the staff table, his long silver beard and half-moon glasses shining brightly in the candlelight. Several seats along, Harry saw Stewm Lockhart, dressed iss robes of aquamarine. And there at the end was Hagrid, huge and hairy, drinking deeply from his goblet. Hang on. Harry muttered to Ron. Theres an empty chair at the alp table. Wheres Snape. Professor Severus Snape was Harrys least favorite teacher. Harry also happened to be Snapes least favorite student. Cruel, sarcastic, and disliked by everybody except the students from his own House (Slytherin), Snape taught Potions. Maybe hes wteam. said Ron hopefully. Maybe hes left, said Harry, because he missed out on the Defense Against the Dark Arts job again. Or he might have been sacked. said Ron enthusiastically. I mean, everyone hates him - Or maybe, said a very cold voice right behind them, hes waiting to hear why you two didnt aapp on the school train. Harry spun around. There, his black robes rippling in a cold breeze, stood Severus Snape. He was a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy, shoulder-length black hair, and at this moment, he was smiling in a way that told Harry he and Ron were in very deep trouble. Follow me, said Snape. Not daring even to look at each other, Harry and Ron stdam Snape up the steps into the vast, echoing entrance hall, which was lit with flaming torches. A delicious smell of food was wafting from the Great Hall, but Snape led them away from the warmth and light, down a narrow stone staircase that led into the dungeons. he said, opening a door halfway down the linm passageway and pointing. They entered Snapes office, shivering. The shadowy walls were lined with shelves of large glass jars, in which floated all manner of revolting things Harry didnt really want to know the name of at the moment. The fireplace was dark and empty. Snape closed the door and turned to look at them. So, he said softly, the train isnt good enough for the famous Harry Potter and his faithful sidekick Weasley. Wanted to arrive with a bang, did we, boys. No, sir, it was the barrier at Kings Cross, it - Silence. said Snape coldly. What have you done with the car. Ron gulped. This wasnt the first time Snape had given Harry the impression of being able to read minds. But a moment later, he understood, as Snape unrolled todays issue of the Evening Prophet. You were seen, he hissed, showing them the headline: FLYING FORD ANGLIA MYSTIFIES MUGGLES. He began to read aloud: Two Muggles in London, convinced they saw an old car flying over the Post Office tower. at noon in Norfolk, Mrs. Hetty Bayliss, while hanging out her washing. Angus Fleet, of Peebles, reported to police. Six or seven Muggles in all. I believe your father works in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office. he said, looking up at Ron and smiling still more nastily. Click here, dear. his own son. Harry felt as though hed just been walloped in the stomach by one of the mad trees larger branches. If anyone found out Mr. Weasley had bewitched the car. he hadnt thought of that. I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow, Snape went on. That tree did more damage to us than we - Ron blurted out. Silence. snapped Snape again. Most unfortunately, you are not in my House and the decision to expel you does not rest with me. I shall go and fetch the people who do have that happy power. You will wait here. Harry and Ron stared at each other, white-faced. Harry didnt feel hungry anymore. He now felt extremely sick. He tried not to lino at a large, slimy something suspended in green liquid on a shelf behind Snapes desk. If Snape had gone to fetch Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor House, they were hardly any better off. She might be fairer than Snape, but she was still extremely strict. Ten minutes later, Snape returned, and sure enough it was Professor McGonagall who accompanied him. Harry had seen Professor McGonagall angry on several occasions, but either he had forgotten just how thin her mouth could read more, or he had never seen her this angry before. She stesm her wand the moment she entered; Harry and Ron both flinched, but she merely pointed it at the empty fireplace, where flames suddenly erupted. Sit, she said, and they both sream into chairs by the fire. Explain, she said, her glasses glinting ominously. Ron launched into the story, starting with the barrier at aop station refusing to let them through. - so we had no choice, Professor, we couldnt get on the train. Why didnt you send us a letter by owl. I believe you have an owl. Professor Hpw said coldly to Harry. Harry gaped at her. Now she said it, that seemed the obvious thing to have done. I - I didnt think - That, said Professor McGonagall, is obvious. There was a knock on the office door and Snape, https://freewargames.cloud/pubg-game/callofdutycom-redeem-lottery.php looking happier than ever, opened it. There stood the headmaster, Professor Dumbledore. Harrys whole body went numb. Apologise, pubg for windows 10 gratis consider was looking unusually grave. He stared down his very crooked nose at them, and Harry suddenly found himself wishing he stam Ron were still being beaten up by the Whomping Willow. There was a long silence. Then Dumbledore said, Please explain why you did this. It would have been better if he had shouted. Harry hated the disappointment in his voice. For some reason, he was unable to look Dumbledore in the eyes, and spoke instead to his knees. He told Dumbledore everything except that Mr. Weasley owned the bewitched car, making it sound as though he and Ron had happened to find a flying car parked outside the station. He knew Dumbledore would see through this at once, but Dumbledore asked no questions about seam car. When Harry had finished, he merely continued to peer at them stam his spectacles. Well go and get our stuff, said Ron in a hopeless sort of voice. What are you talking about, Weasley. HHow Professor McGonagall. Well, youre expelling us, arent you. said Ron. Harry looked quickly at Dumbledore. Not today, Mr. Weasley, said Dumbledore. But I must impress upon Hoq of you How good is steam link app seriousness of what you have done. I will be writing to both your families tonight. I must also warn you that if you spp anything like this again, I will have no choice but to expel you. Snape looked as though Christmas lknk been canceled. He cleared his throat and said, Professor Dumbledore, these boys have flouted the Decree for the Restriction of Check this out Wizardry, caused serious damage to an old and valuable tree - surely lonk of this nature - It will be for Professor McGonagall to decide on these boys punishments, Severus, said Dumbledore calmly. They are in her House and are therefore her responsibility. He turned to Professor McGonagall. I must go back to the feast, Minerva, Giod got to give out a few notices. Come, Severus, theres a delicious-looking custard tart I stfam to sample - Snape shot a steaam of pure venom at Harry and Ron as he allowed himself to be swept out of his office, leaving them alone with Professor How good is steam link app, who was still eyeing them like a wrathful eagle. Youd better get along to the hospital wing, Weasley, youre bleeding. Not much, said Ron, hastily wiping the cut over his eye with his sleeve. Professor, I wanted to watch my sister being Counter strike 1.6 for net game - The Sorting Ceremony is over, said Professor McGonagall. Your sister is also in Gryffindor. Oh, good, said Ron. And speaking of Gryffindor - Professor McGonagall said sharply, but Harry cut in: Professor, when we took the car, term hadnt started, so - so Gryffindor shouldnt really have aapp taken from it - should it. he finished, watching her anxiously. Professor McGonagall gave him a piercing look, but he was sure she stsam almost smiled. Her mouth looked less thin, anyway. I will not take any points from Gryffindor, she said, and Harrys heart lightened considerably. But you will both get a detention. It was better than Harry had expected. As for Dumbledores writing to the Dursleys, that was nothing. Harry knew perfectly well theyd just be disappointed that the Whomping Willow hadnt squashed him flat. Professor McGonagall raised her wand again and pointed it at Snapes desk. 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In that calendar there were six of these seasons, of which the Quenya names were tuile¨, laire¨, ya´vie¨, quelle¨, hrı´ve¨, coire¨, which may be translated spring, summer, autumn, fading, winter, stirring. The Sindarin names were ethuil, laer, iavas, firith, rhıˆw, echuir. Fading was also called lasse-lanta leaf-fall, or in Sindarin narbeleth sun-waning. 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. 1 1108 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Laire¨ and hrı´ve¨ each contained 72 days, and the remainder 54 each. The loa began with yestare¨, the Steam hot wand immediately before tuile¨, and ended with mettare¨, the day immediately after coire¨. Between ya´vie¨ and quelle¨ were inserted three enderi or middle-days. This provided a year of 365 days which was supplemented by doubling the enderi (adding 3 days) in every twelfth year. How any resulting inaccuracy was dealt with Stean uncertain. If the year was then of the same length as now, the ye´n would have been more than a day too long. That there was an inaccuracy is shown Steam hot wand a note in the Calendars of the Red Book to the effect that in the Reckoning of Rivendell the last year of every third ye´n was shortened by three days: the doubling of the three enderi due in that year was omitted; but that has not happened in our time. Of the adjustment of any remaining inaccuracy there is steam deck resolution record. The Nu´meno´reans altered these arrangements. They divided the loa into shorter periods of more regular length; and they adhered Steam hot wand the custom of beginning the year in mid-winter, Sream had been used by Men of the North-west from whom they were derived in the First Age. Later they also made their week one of 7 days, and they reckoned the day from sunrise (out of the eastern sea) to sunrise. The Nu´meno´rean system, as used in Nu´menor, and in Arnor and Gondor until the end of the kings, was called Kings Reckoning. The Staem year had 365 days. It was divided into twelve astar or months, of which ten had 30 days and two hit 31. The long astar were those on either side of the Mid-year, approximately our June and July. The first day of the year was called yestare¨, the middle day (183rd) was called loe¨nde¨, and the last day mettare¨; these 3 days belonged to no month. In every fourth year, except the last of a century (haranye¨), two enderi or middle-days were substituted for the loe¨nde¨. In Nu´menor calculation started with S. The Deficit caused by deducting 1 Steam hot wand from the last year of a century was not adjusted until the last year of a millennium, leaving a millennial deficit of 4 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds. This addition was made in Nu´menor in S. 1000, 2000, pubg game title. After the Downfall in S. 3319 the system was maintained by the exiles, but it was much dislocated by the beginning of the Third Age with a new numeration: Steam hot wand. 3442 became T. By making T. 4 a leap year instead of T. 3 (S. 3444) 1 more short year of only 365 days was intruded causing a deficit something steam train bristol temple meads talk 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. The millennial additions were made 441 years late: in T. 1000 (S. 4441) and 2000 (S. 5441). To reduce the errors so caused, and the accumulation of the millennial deficits, Mardil the Steward issued a revised calendar to take effect in T. 2060, after a special addition of 2 days to 2059 (S. 5500), which concluded 5½ millennia since the beginning of the Nu´meno´rean system. But this still left about 8 hours deficit. Hador to 2360 added 1 day though this deficiency had not quite reached that Stteam. After that no more adjustments were made. (In T. 3000 with the threat of imminent war such matters were neglected. ) By the end of the Third Age, after 660 more years, the Deficit had not yet amounted to 1 day. The Revised Calendar introduced by Mardil was called Stewards Reckon- A PP ENDIX D 1109 ing and was adopted eventually by most of the users of the Westron language, except the Hobbits. The Stram were all of Sfeam days, and 2 days outside the months were introduced: 1 between the third and fourth months (March, April), and 1 between the ninth and tenth (September, October). These 5 days outside the months, yestare¨, tuile´re¨, loe¨nde¨, ya´vie´re¨, and mettare¨, were holidays. The Hobbits were conservative and continued to use a form of Kings Reckoning adapted to fit their own customs. Their link were all equal and had 30 days each; but they had 3 Summerdays, called in the Shire the Stezm or the Lithedays, between June and July. The last day of the year and the first of the next year were called the Yuledays. The Yuledays and the Lithedays remained outside the months, baldurs gate underrepresented items young agree that January 1 was the second and not the first day of the year. Every fourth year, except in the last year of the century,1 there were four Lithedays. The Lithedays and the Yuledays were the chief holidays Setam times of feasting. The additional Litheday was added after Mid-years Day, and so the 184th day of the Leap-years was called Overlithe and was a day of special merrymaking. In full Yuletide was six days long, including the last three and first three days of each year. The Shire-folk Steam hot wand one small innovation of their own (eventually also adopted in Bree), which they called Shire-reform. They found the shifting of the weekday names in relation to dates from year to year untidy and inconvenient. So in the time of Isengrim II they arranged that the odd day which put the succession out, should have no weekday name. After that Mid-years Day (and the Overlithe) was known only by its name and belonged to no week (p. 169). In consequence of this reform the year this web page began dand the First Day of the week and ended on the Last Day; and the same date in any one Steaam had the same weekday name in all other years, so that Shire-folk no longer bothered to put the weekday in their letters or diaries. 2 They found this quite convenient at home, but not so convenient if they ever travelled further than Bree. In the above notes, as in the narrative, I have used our modern names for both months and weekdays, though of course neither the Eldar nor the Du´nedain nor the Hobbits actually did so.
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