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第9章 地底脱险

Ecc 5:7 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

Deu 24:7 If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Dumbledore’s betrayal was almost nothing. Of course there had been a bigger plan: Harry had simply been too foolish to see it, he realized that now. He had never questioned his own assumption that Dumbledore wanted him alive. Now he saw that his life span had always been determined by how long it took to eliminate all the Horcruxes. Dumbledore had passed the job of destroying them to him, and obediently he had continued to chip away at the bonds tying not only Voldemort, but himself, to life! How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter, and whose death would not be a calamity, but another blow against Voldemort.

doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings

Dumbledore cleared his throat.

Deu 3:28 But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.

e I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

deposit, in the local savings-bank, the sum of five-and-twenty

dress and which was lady—came sailing in. I had a dim