He could have sworn, too, that he felt something brush against his side, a gentle something like a draught or bird wings, but looking down he saw nothing there. Do you have any evidence that any such meetings continued?'Īs Dumbledore spoke, Harry heard a rustle behind him and rather thought Kingsley whispered something. 'Well,' said Dumbledore, surveying her with polite interest over the top of his interlocked fingers, 'they certainly would be, if they had continued after the Decree came into effect. If the first meeting was not illegal, all those that have happened since most certainly are.' 'That's all very fine, Headmaster,' she said, smiling sweetly, 'but we are now nearly six months on from the introduction of Educational Decree Number Twenty-four. Fudge remained motionless in mid-bounce, his mouth hanging open. Percy looked as though he had been struck in the face by something very heavy. If you remember, the Ministry Decree banning all student societies was not put into effect until two days after Harrys Hogsmeade meeting, so he was not breaking any rules at all in the Hog's Head.' I am merely pointing out that Dolores is quite wrong to suggest that such a group was, at that time, illegal. 'Cornelius, I do not deny - and nor, I am sure, does Harry -that he was in the Hog's Head that day, nor that he was trying to recruit students to a Defence Against the Dark Arts group. Then he saw, to his astonishment, that Dumbledore was smiling gently, too.
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