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Chapter 21, p.455
"He's got Crabbe and Goyle transforming into girls?" guffawed Ron. "Blimey... No wonder they don't look too happy these days.... I'm surprised they don't tell him to stuff it...."
"Well, they wouldn't, would they, if he's shown them his Dark Mark?" said Harry.
"Hmmm... the Dark Mark we don't know exists," said Hermione skeptically, rolling up Ron's dried essay before it could come to any more harm and handing it to him.
"We'll see," said Harry confidently.
"Yes, we will," Hermione said, getting to her feet and stretching. "But, Harry before you get all excited, I still don't think you'll be able to get into the Room of Requirement without knowing what's there first. And I don't think you should forget" - she heaved her bag onto her shoulder and gave him a very serious look - "that what you're supposed to be concentrating on is getting that memory from Slughorn. Good night."

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Chapter 22, p.473-474
The bell rang overhead in the castle and both Hermione and Ron jumped to their feet, looking terrified.
"You'll do fine," Harry told them both, as they headed toward the entrance hall to meet the rest of the people taking their Apparition Test. "Good luck."
"And you too!" said Hermione with a significant look, as Harry headed off to the dungeons.
There were only three of them in Potions that afternoon: Harry, Ernie, and Malfoy.
"All too young to apparate just yet?" said Slughorn genially. "Not turned seventeen yet?"
They shook their heads.

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Chapter 22, p.475-476
"Harry!" cried Hermione as she climbed through the portrait hole. "Harry, I passed!"
"Well done !" he said. "And Ron?"
"He - he just failed," whispered Hermione, as Ron came slouching into the room looking most morose. "It was really unlucky, a tiny thing, the examiner just spotted he'd left half an eyebrow behind....

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Chapter 24, p. 529-530
"Harry," said Hermione, "how can you still stick up for that book when that spell -"
"Will you stop harping on about the book!" snapped Harry. "The Prince only copied it out! It's not like he was advising anyone to use it! For all we know, he was making a note of something that had been used against him!"
"I don't believe this," said Hermione. "You're actually defending -"
"I'm not defending what I did!" said Harry quickly. "I wish I hadn't done it, and not just because I've got a dozen detentions. You know I wouldn've used a spell like that, not even on Malfoy, but you can't blame the Prince, he hadn't written 'try this out, it's really good' - he was just making notes for himself, wasn't he, not for anyone else...."
"Are you telling me," said Hermione, "that you're going to go back - ?"
"And get the book? Yeah, I am," said Harry forcefully. "Listen, without the Prince I'd never have won the Felix Felicis. I'd never have known how to save Ron from poisoning, I'd never have -"
"- got a reputation for Potions brilliance you don't deserve," said Hermione nastily.
"Give it a rest, Hermione!" said Ginny, and Harry was so amazed, so grateful, he looked up. "By the sound of it, Malfoy was trying to use an Unforgivable Curse, you should be glad Harry had something good up his sleeve!"
"Well, of course I'm glad Harry wasn't cursed!" said Hermione, clearly stung. "But you can't call Sectumsempra spell good, Ginny, look where it's landed him! And I'd have thought, seeing what this has done to your chances in the match -"
"Oh, don't start acting as though you understand Quidditch," snapped Ginny, "you'll only embarrass yourself."

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Chapter 30, p.650-652
Ron seemed to struggle with himself for a moment, then he said loudly to Hermione, "Look, let me go back and hit Percy!"
"No," she said firmly, grabbing his arm.
"It'll make me feel better!"
Harry laughed. Hermione grinned a little, though her smile faded as she looked up at the castle.
"I can't bear the idea that we might never come back," she said softly. "How can Hogwarts close?"
"Maybe it won't," said Ron. "We're not in any more danger here than we are at home, are we? Everywhere's the same now. I'd even say Hogwarts as safer, there are more wizards inside to defend the place. What d'you reckon, Harry?"
"I'm not coming back even if it does reopen," said Harry.
Ron gaped at him, but Hermione said sadly, "I knew you were going to say that. But then what will you do?”
"I'm going back to the Dursleys' once more, because Dumbledore wanted me to," said Harry. "But it'll be a short visit, and then I’ll be gone for good."
"But where will you go if you don't come back to school?"
"I thought I might go back to Godric's Hollow," Harry muttered. He had had the idea in head ever since the night of Dumbledore's death. "For me, it started there, all of it. I've just got a feeling I need to go there. And I can visit my parents' graves, I'd like that."
"And then what?” said Ron.
"Then I've got to track down the rest of the Horcruxes, haven't I?" said Harry, his eyes upon Dumbleore's white tomb, reflected in the water on the other side of the lake. "That’s what he wanted me to do, that’s why he told me all about them. If Dumbledore was right - and I’m sure he was - there are still four of them out there. I've got to find them and destroy them, and then I've got to go after the seventh bit of Voldemort's soul, the bit that's still in his body, and I'm the ne who's going to kill him. And if I meet Severus Snape along the way," he added, "so much better for me, so much worse for him."
There was a long silence. The crowd had almost disappeared now, the stragglers giving the monumental figure of Grawp a wide berth as he cuddled Hagrid, whose howls of grief were still echoing across the water.
"We'll be there, Harry," said Ron.
"What?"
"At your aunt and uncle's house," said Ron. "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going."
"No -" said Harry quickly; he had not counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking this most dangerous journey alone.
"You said to us before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We’ve had time, haven't we?"
"We're with you whatever happens," said Ron. "But, mate, you're going to have to come round my mum and dad's house before we do anything else, even Godric's Hollow."

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