THE JOURNEY FROM PLATFORM
NINE AND THREE-QUARTERS
Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the
twelve uses of dragon’s blood, and his work on alchemy
with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore
enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.
Harry turned the card back over and saw, to his astonishment, that
Dumbledore’s face had disappeared.
“He’s gone!”
“Well, you can’t expect him to hang around all day,” said Ron.
“He’ll be back. No, I’ve got Morgana again and I’ve got about six
of her . . . do you want it? You can start collecting.”
Ron’s eyes strayed to the pile of Chocolate Frogs waiting to be
unwrapped.
“Help yourself,” said Harry. “But in, you know, the Muggle
world, people just stay put in photos.”
“Do they? What, they don’t move at all?” Ron sounded amazed.
“Weird !”
Harry stared as Dumbledore sidled back into the picture on his
card and gave him a small smile. Ron was more interested in eating
the frogs than looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards,
but Harry couldn’t keep his eyes off them. Soon he had not only
Dumbledore and Morgana, but Hengist of Woodcraft, Alberic
Grunnion, Circe, Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes
away from the druidess Cliodna, who was scratching her nose, to
open a bag of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.
“You want to be careful with those,” Ron warned Harry. “When
they say every flavor, they mean every flavor — you know, you get
all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and mar-
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