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She nodded impatiently, not taking her eyes off her potion, which was still deep purple, though according to the book ought to be turning a light shade of lilac by now.
Harry crushed his bean with the flat side of the dagger. To his astonishment, it immediately exuded so much juice he was amazed the shriveled bean could have held it all.
Hastily scooping it all into the cauldron he saw, to his surprise, that the potion immediately turned exactly the shade of lilac described by the textbook.
His annoyance with the previous owner vanishing on the spot, Harry now squinted at the next line of instructions. According the book, he had to stir counterclockwise until the potion turned clear as water. According to the addition the previous owner made, however, he ought to add a clockwise stir after every seventh counterclockwise stir. Could the old owner be right twice?

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budge," Mrs. Weasley was saying anxiously, standing over Hermione with her wand in her hand and a copy of The Healer's Helpmate open at "Bruises, Cuts, and Abrasions." "This has always worked before, I just can't understand it."
"It'll be Fred and George's idea of a funny joke, making sure it can't come off," said Ginny.
"But it's got to come off!" squeaked Hermione. "I can't go around looking like this forever!"
"You won't, dear, we'll find an antidote, don't worry," said Mrs. Weasley soothingly.
"Bill told me W Fred and George are very amusing!" said Fleur, smiling serenely.
"Yes, I can hardly breathe for laughing," snapped Hermione.
She jumped up and started walking round and round the kitchen, twisting her fingers together.
"Mrs. Weasley, you're quite, quite sure no owls have arrived this morning?"

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raised his eyes to the upside down face. All of the Death Eaters were looking up at the captive now, as though they had been given permission to show curiosity. As she revolved to face the firelight, the woman said in a cracked and terrified voice, "Severus! Help me!"

"Ah, yes," said Snape as the prisoner turned slowly away again.

　　　"And you, Draco?" asked Voldemort, stroking the snake's snout with his wand-free hand. Draco shook his head jerkily. Now that the woman had woken, he seemed unable to look at her anymore.

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audience, this is one of the saddest weeks that has come to humanity in a hundred years. A senseless war seems inevitably forced upon hundreds of millions of people. The whole world still prays for some miracle that might deliver us. For war means the killing of millions of the best and the most courageous of men who might contribute something to human progress. It means the kil1ing and starvation ofmil1ions of women and children. It means another quarter of a century of impoverishment for the whole world. And it will likely be a long war, it is possible that the brave people of Poland may be overrun in a few months, but there seems no point of access from which an overwhelming attack can be delivered from the British and French on one side, to the Germans on the other, which might quickly end this war. It's like1y to be a war of slow attrition, and the fate of Poland will depend upon its ending. The air defenses of France and England, their greatly

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not Rowling's. "Joanne is a complete perfectionist with her book and this mistake crept in during the typesetting stage," publicity director Katie Collins told the Mirror. The book, the fourth in the series about Harry Potter the schoolboy wizard, has been a worldwide phenomenon with the largest initial print run in history. Total sales of the Potter series run into millions of copies. The success of the book has catapulted Rowling to the top of the list of Britain's highest paid women. And another Harry Potter secret is out of the bag. The Mirror reported that Rowling had let slip the title of the fifth book -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- during an interview on a television show in the U.S.

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are live," said Texarkana resident Nita Fran Hutcheson, who has had no water or electricity at her home since Monday. Hutcheson said she and her daughter were bundled up in as many clothes as they could pull on and they had dressed their Yorkshire terrier in doll's clothes. American singer Michael Jackson salutes the crowd as he receives his Millennium World Music award during a ceremony late May 10. 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson, along with Rock 'n' roll bad boys Aerosmith, and singer/songwriter Paul Simon and are among the latest crop of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, organizers announced on Tuesday.

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A spokesman for Traficant said he had no plans of becoming a Republican, but may declare himself an independent. The Senate and House each held opening day sessions of several hours. The Senate reconvenes on Thursday. The House recessed until Saturday when the two chambers will hold a joint session to count the Electoral College votes that will formally make Bush the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential race. Democrats and Republicans have already drawn battle lines over matters from tax cuts to education to some sort of power sharing in the Senate, where the two parties are split, 50-50. "It is quite often not easy to find consensus ... but we must try," Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi declared.

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Children welcome former US President Bill Clinton when he visited the American School, in Wassenaar, The Netherlands Tuesday March 13, 2001. Clinton was on his first post-presidential appearance outside the United States.
Lunch with Bill Clinton comes cheaper than a presidential pardon - but would still set you back more than $10,000 (￡7,000). That was what a dozen guests paid for the privilege of a more or less intimate luncheon with the former president in the Netherlands yesterday, when Mr Clinton made his first foray outside the United States since leaving the White House. Nosy reporters with money on their minds were barred from Mr Clinton’s address to European businessmen, who paid up to 3,000 guilders (￡800) a seat to hear a 45-minute talk on "Reshaping the Future

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and an inspiring rendition of "I've Seen It All" (from Dancer in the Dark) by Bj?rk, who wore the evening's most interesting dress - a stuffed white swan wrapped around her waist and neck.In other music-related awards, Cameron Crowe picked up the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Almost Famous, his love letter to rock and roll. Kate Hudson, who plays a "band aid" in the film, was the favorite for the Best Supporting Actress award, but lost to Marcia Gay Harden (from Pollock). Hudson, 21, was accompanied by her husband, Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes.Chinese-born composer Tan Dun, who also was nominated for Best Song, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for the martial arts fantasy Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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in paleontology are used to showing pieces of rubble, "says Norell. "This fossil is fantastic." Under a microscope, the herringbone pattern of feathers can clearly be seen sprouting from the creature's arms, he says. Scientists say the dinosaur didn't fly because the forearms aren't long enough in relation to the rest of the body.Still SkepticalDespite the new find, a small group of paleontologists remain skeptical that birds evolved from dinosaurs because the feathered dinosaur fossils don't predate the time when birds are said to have evolved, which most scientists say is about 150 to 180 million years ago. Alan Feduccia, a paleontologist at the University of North Carolina, is one a few paleontologists who reject the bird-from-dino theory."A lot of things look like feathers," he says. "Where ever birds came from, it's much earlier [than the new fossil]. There's this timing problem."

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The flamingo has long elegant legs, a long neck and bright colors. The grebe is a squat, duck-like bird. Appearances suggest they're not related, genetics tell a different story.
That's sort of what happened to two independent research teams at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Wisconsin. Using very different approaches, the two teams studied the genetic nature of a wide range of aquatic birds, and some of the results were downright "astonishing," says evolutionary biologist Blair Hedges of Penn State's Eberly College of Science, leader of one of the teams.For example, the elegant flamingo, with its stork-like legs, long neck and brilliant colors, turns out to have a really strange bedfellow in its family tree. The flamingo's closest relative, according to the researchers, is not another long-legged shore bird. It's a grebe.

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taking a trip to Anoka, Minn., a town just north of Minneapolis-St. Paul that touts itself as the "Halloween Capital of the World."
The town's claim to Halloween fame stems from efforts to keep mischievous young people in line on the holiday. In the years after World War I, many young people, including those in Anoka (pop. 18,000), enjoyed playing pranks on Halloween.But when the Anoka pranksters corralled a herd of cows down Main Street in 1919, the local merchants had seen enough. The next year, in 1920, the city started a Halloween festival believed to be the first ever in the United States. Organizers held parties and parades, giving idle hands something to do, and parents a chance to keep an eye on them. The tradition has been going strong ever since.In her quest for decorating ideas for the ghoulish holiday, Good Morning America's gardening and lifestyle editor Rebecca Kolls visited Anoka to join the festivities and to offer her own decorating ideas. To add a ghoulish

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直播视频由红外摄像设备拍摄。视频画面显示，神九升空后，整流罩发生脱离，神九继续飞行。飞出一段距离后，在4分11秒左右时，前方突然出现两个紧密相随的发光体。发光体从画面右下方而来，迅速向神九左上方掠过，随后消失。

发光体出现的时间约为1秒。从画面上来看，它与神九方向相反，直扑神九而来，视觉上的速度比神九还要快。

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这段视频被捕捉到后，在网上广泛传播，引发热议。有网友称，外星人存在的话题已经听过很多，很可能是外星人的飞碟。

也有网友发出疑问：每次火箭、飞船发射以及自然灾害发生时，都会出现一些关于UFO和超自然现象的问题，真假难以判断。

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thousand middle school children waving miniature Chinese and Olympics flags attended the ceremony, which also marks the first time the flame has been carried on the mainland."This shows how fast our country has progressed," said 14-year-old Wang Xirui. "I'm so happy to be here. It makes any Chinese proud."Many roads were closed off and curious onlookers lined up to see what was going on. Several waved flags. One street banner read "Pass the flame, united the world."Chinese NBA star Yao Ming will carry the torch to ignite a ceremonial cauldron before a celebration at the palace, organizers said.Other torchbearers include former Olympic table tennis champion Deng Yaping and gymnast Sang Lan, paralyzed from the waist down in a fall.The torch is to be carried 46,800 miles across six continents, 27 countries and 33 cities by about 11,000 runners.It is scheduled to travel to New Delhi next.

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A monkey enjoys a drink and fruits and vegetables during the annual Monkey festival in Thailand. The festival has been hosted since 1989 by a local businessman who believes the monkeys were...
A monkey enjoys a drink and fruits and vegetables during the annual Monkey festival in Thailand.The festival has been hosted since 1989 by a local businessman who believes the monkeys were behind his family's good fortune.A total of 2,000 kilograms of fruits were offered to the monkeys roaming the area.
you think you receive a lot of spam, it could be far worse. You could be Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.Dubbed the "Most Spammed Person in the World" last week, Gates receives...
If you think you receive a lot of spam, it could be far worse. You could be Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.Dubbed the "Most Spammed Person in the World" last week, Gates receives nearly four million emails daily, most of which are junk emails. Luckily, as Microsoft chairman, Gates has access to anti-spam technology to filter unsolicited emails. Consequently, unlike your inbox, few of the spam emails actually made it through to his inbox.

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yes, I know we can get through it, I'm sure we can.RHETT: Not we, my dear, you. I'm leaving you here. SCARLETT: You're what? Rhett, where are you going? RHETT: I'm going, my dear, to join the army. SCARLETT: Oh, you're joking. I could kill you for scaring me so.RHETT: I'm very serious, Scarlett. I'm going to join up with our brave lads in gray. SCARLETT: But they're running away. RHETT: Oh, no, they'll turn and make a last stand, if I know anything about them. And when they do, I'll be with them. I'm a little late, but better late than... SCARLETT: Rhett, you must be joking. RHETT: Selfish to the end, aren't you? Thinking of your own precious hide with never a thought for the noble cause.SCARLETT: Rhett, how could you do this to me, and why should you go now that, after it's all over and I need you, why? Why?RHETT: Why? Maybe it's because I've always had a weakness for lost causes, once they're really lost. Or maybe, maybe I'm ashamed of myself. Who knows?

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When anne came downstairs again, the Island, as well as all Canada, was in the throes of a campaign preceding a general election. Gilbert, who was an ardent Conservative, found himself caught in the vortex, being much in demand for speech-making at the various county rallies. Miss Cornelia did not approve of his mixing up in politics and told Anne so.
"Dr. Dave never did it. Dr. Blythe will find he is making a mistake, believe me. Politics is something no decent man should meddle with."
"Is the government of the country to be left solely to the rogues then?" asked Anne.
"Yes--so long as it's Conservative rogues," said Miss Cornelia, marching off with the honors of war. "Men and politicians are all tarred with the same brush. The Grits have it laid on thicker than the Conservatives, that's all--considerably thicker. But Grit or Tory, my advice

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"Anne has settled his name," answered Gilbert.
"James Matthew--after the two finest gentlemen I've ever known--not even saving your presence," said Anne with a saucy glance at Gilbert.
Gilbert smiled.
"I never knew Matthew very well; he was so shy we boys couldn't get acquainted with him--but I quite agree with you that Captain Jim is one of the rarest and finest souls God ever clothed in clay. He is so delighted over the fact that we have given his name to our small lad. It seems he has no other namesake."
"Well, James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing," said Miss Cornelia. "I'm glad you didn't load him down with some highfalutin, romantic name that he'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather. Mrs. William Drew at the Glen has

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"Of course it must be hard for you to leave Mr. Moore," said Anne, in a matter-of-fact tone. She had decided that it would be best to mention Dick Moore occasionally as an accepted fact, and not give undue morbidness to the subject by avoiding it. She was right, for Leslie's air of constraint suddenly vanished. Evidently she had been wondering how much Anne knew of the conditions of her life and was relieved that no explanations were needed. She allowed her cap and jacket to be taken, and sat down with a girlish snuggle in the big armchair by Magog. She was dressed prettily and carefully, with the customary touch of color in the scarlet geranium at her white throat. Her beautiful hair gleamed like molten gold in the warm firelight. Her sea-blue eyes were full of soft laughter and allurement. For the moment, under the influence of the little house of dreams, she was a girl again--a girl forgetful of the past and its bitterness. The atmosphere of the many loves that had sanctified the little house was all about her; the companionship of two healthy, happy, young folks of her own generation encircled her; she felt and yielded to the magic

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will do everything I can for her," said Anne. Her interest in Leslie Moore, which had been vivid ever since she had seen her driving her geese down the hill, was intensified a thousand fold by Miss Cornelia's narration. The girl's beauty and sorrow and loneliness drew her with an irresistible fascination. She had never known anyone like her; her friends had hitherto been wholesome, normal, merry girls like herself, with only the average trials of human care and bereavement to shadow their girlish dreams. Leslie Moore stood apart, a tragic, appealing figure of thwarted womanhood. Anne resolved that she would win entrance into the kingdom of that lonely soul and find there the comradeship it could so richly give, were it not for the cruel fetters that held it in a prison not of its own making.
"And mind you this, Anne, dearie," said Miss Cornelia, who had not yet wholly relieved her mind, "You mustn't think Leslie is an infidel because she hardly ever goes to church--or even that she's a Methodist. She can't take Dick to church, of course--not that he ever troubled church much in his best days. But you just remember that she's a real strong Presbyterian at heart, Anne, dearie."

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Anne. "No matter what deeper joys may come to us later on we'll never again have just the same delightful, irresponsible existence we've had here. It's over forever, Phil."
"What are you going to do with Rusty?" asked Phil, as that privileged pussy padded into the room.
"I am going to take him home with me and Joseph and the Sarah-cat," announced Aunt Jamesina, following Rusty. "It would be a shame to separate those cats now that they have learned to live together. It's a hard lesson for cats and humans to learn."
"I'm sorry to part with Rusty," said Anne regretfully, "but it would be no use to take him to Green Gables. Marilla detests cats, and Davy would tease his life out. Besides, I don't suppose I'll be home very long. I've been offered the principalship of the Summerside High School."
"Are you going to accept it?" asked Phil.

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the gayest of all the gay revellers that night, and told Gilbert unregretfully that her card was full when he came to ask her for a dance. Afterwards, when she sat with the girls before the dying embers at Patty's Place, removing the spring chilliness from their satin skins, none chatted more blithely than she of the day's events.
"Moody Spurgeon MacPherson called here tonight after you left," said Aunt Jamesina, who had sat up to keep the fire on. "He didn't know about the graduation dance. That boy ought to sleep with a rubber band around his head to train his ears not to stick out. I had a beau once who did that and it improved him immensely. It was I who suggested it to him and he took my advice, but he never forgave me for it."
"Moody Spurgeon is a very serious young man," yawned Priscilla. "He is concerned with graver matters than his ears. He is going to be a minister, you know."
"Well, I suppose the Lord doesn't regard the ears of a man," said

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"I shall always remember him," said Miss Maria solemnly. "I can see him, this minute, standing there before that fire, with his hands under his coat-tails, beaming on us."
Miss Maria took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes; but Miss Patty came resolutely back from the regions of sentiment to those of business.
"I shall leave the dogs where they are, if you will promise to be very careful of them," she said. "Their names are Gog and Magog. Gog looks to the right and Magog to the left. And there's just one thing more. You don't object, I hope, to this house being called Patty's Place?"
"No, indeed. We think that is one of the nicest things about it."

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You have sense, I see," said Miss Patty in a tone of great satisfaction. "Would you believe it? All the people who came here to rent the house wanted to know if they couldn't take the name off the gate during their occupation of it. I told them roundly that the name went with the house. This has been Patty's Place ever since my brother Aaron left it to me in his will, and Patty's Place it shall remain until I die and Maria dies. After that happens the next possessor can call it any fool name he likes," concluded Miss Patty, much as she might have said, "After that -- the deluge." "And now, wouldn't you like to go over the house and see it all before we consider the bargain made?"
Further exploration still further delighted the girls. Besides the big living-room, there was a kitchen and a small bedroom downstairs. Upstairs were three rooms, one large and two small. Anne took an especial fancy to one of the small ones, looking out into the big pines, and hoped it would be hers. It was papered in pale blue and had a little, old-timey toilet table with sconces for candles. There was a diamond-paned window with a seat under the blue muslin frills that would be a satisfying spot for studying or dreaming.

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直播视频由红外摄像设备拍摄。视频画面显示，神九升空后，整流罩发生脱离，神九继续飞行。飞出一段距离后，在4分11秒左右时，前方突然出现两个紧密相随的发光体。发光体从画面右下方而来，迅速向神九左上方掠过，随后消失。

发光体出现的时间约为1秒。从画面上来看，它与神九方向相反，直扑神九而来，视觉上的速度比神九还要快。

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疑为外星人飞碟

这段视频被捕捉到后，在网上广泛传播，引发热议。有网友称，外星人存在的话题已经听过很多，很可能是外星人的飞碟。

也有网友发出疑问：每次火箭、飞船发射以及自然灾害发生时，都会出现一些关于UFO和超自然现象的问题，真假难以判断。

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"Since I've got pretty good myself I don't mind his being gooder so much. If I can keep on I'll catch up with him some day, both in legs and goodness. 'Sides, Paul's real nice to us second primer boys in school. He won't let the other big boys meddle with us and he shows us lots of games."
"How came Paul to fall into the brook at noon hour yesterday?" asked Anne. "I met him on the playground, such a dripping figure that I sent him promptly home for clothes without waiting to find out what had happened."
"Well, it was partly a zacksident," explained Davy. "He stuck his head in on purpose but the rest of him fell in zacksidentally. We was all down at the brook and Prillie Rogerson got mad at Paul about something. . .she's awful mean and horrid anyway, if she is pretty. . .and said that his grandmother put his hair up in curl rags every night. Paul wouldn't have minded what she said, I guess, but Gracie Andrews laughed, and Paul got awful red, 'cause Gracie's his girl, you know. He's clean gone on her. . .brings her flowers and carries her books as far as the shore road.

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It really began the night before with a restless, wakeful vigil of grumbling toothache. When Anne arose in the dull, bitter winter morning she felt that life was flat, stale, and unprofitable.
She went to school in no angelic mood. Her cheek was swollen and her face ached. The schoolroom was cold and smoky, for the fire refused to burn and the children were huddled about it in shivering groups. Anne sent them to their seats with a sharper tone than she had ever used before. Anthony Pye strutted to his with his usual impertinent swagger and she saw him whisper something to his seat-mate and then glance at her with a grin.
Never, so it seemed to Anne, had there been so many squeaky pencils as there were that morning; and when Barbara Shaw came up to the desk with a sum she tripped over the coal scuttle with disastrous results. The coal rolled to every part of the room, her slate was broken into fragments, and when she picked herself up, her face, stained with coal dust, sent the boys into roars of laughter.

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One evening at sunset, Jane Andrews, Gilbert Blythe, and Anne Shirley were lingering by a fence in the shadow of gently swaying spruce boughs, where a wood cut known as the Birch Path joined the main road. Jane had been up to spend the afternoon with Anne, who walked part of the way home with her; at the fence they met Gilbert, and all three were now talking about the fateful morrow; for that morrow was the first of September and the schools would open. Jane would go to Newbridge and Gilbert to White Sands.
"You both have the advantage of me," sighed Anne. "You're going to teach children who don't know you, but I have to teach my own old schoolmates, and Mrs. Lynde says she's afraid they won't respect me as they would a stranger unless I'm very cross from the first. But I don't believe a teacher should be cross. Oh, it seems to me such a responsibility!"
"I guess we'll get on all right," said Jane comfortably. Jane was not troubled by any aspirations to be an influence for good. She meant to earn her salary fairly, please the trustees, and get her name on the School Inspector's roll of honor. Further ambitions Jane had none. "The main thing will be to keep order and a teacher has to be a little cross to do that. If my pupils won't do as I tell them I shall punish them."