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Humanism, Part II
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“F
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awkes,”
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 said Albus Dumbledore, his voice cracking, “help him, please
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A brilliant creature of red-gold shuffled into the field of vision, looking
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The meaningless chirps slid off the emptiness, there was nothing onto which
 they could hold.
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“You're noisy,” said the voice, “you should die.”
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“Chocolate,” Albus Dumbledore said, “you need chocolate, and your friends
 
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 but I dare not take you back
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Then a shining raven came, and spoke in Professor Flitwick's voice; whereupon
 Albus Dumbledore gasped in sudden comprehension, and cursed aloud at his
 own stupidity.
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The empty thing laughed at that, for it had retained the capacity to be
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And a moment later they had all vanished in another flash of fire.
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It was only a moment, it seemed, between when Flitwick's raven had flown
 to elsewhere, and when Albus Dumbledore reappeared in another crack of
 red and golden fire with Harry in his arms; but somehow in that time Hermione
 had already managed to fill her hands with chocolate.
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Before Hermione even got there, chocolate had zoomed off the table and straight
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Harry spat the chocolate back out again.
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“Go away,” said a voice so empty it wasn't even cold.
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…
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Everything seemed to freeze, everyone who had been moving toward Harry halted,
 all movements broken by the shock of those two dead words.
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Then: “No,” said Albus Dumbledore, “I will not,” and time resumed again,
 even as another piece of chocolate zoomed off the table and into Harry's
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Hermione was close enough now that she could see Harry's expression become
 more hateful, as his mouth chewed with a mechanical, unnatural rhythm.
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The Headmaster's voice was grim as iron.
 “Filius, call Minerva, tell her she must come at speed.”
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Professor Flitwick whispered to his silver raven, and it flew into the air
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Another piece of chocolate floated into Harry's mouth, and the mechanical
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There were more students gathering around where the Headmaster watched over
 Harry with grim eyes: Neville, Seamus, Dean, Lavender, Ernie, Terry, Anthony,
 none of them daring to approach any closer than Hermione had.
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“What can we do?” said Dean in a trembling voice.
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” said the dry voice of Professor Quirrell.
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“No!” interrupted the Headmaster.
 “Let him be surrounded by his friends.”
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Harry swallowed his chocolate, and said in that empty voice, “They're stupid.
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” as another piece of chocolate entered his mouth.
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Hermione saw the looks of shock that crossed their faces.
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“He doesn't mean it, does he?” Seamus said it like he was begging.
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“You don't understand,” Hermione said, her voice breaking, “
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--” and she shut up before she said anything more, but she 
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She saw from the look on his face that Neville understood, and she also
 saw that the others didn't.
 If Harry had really never thought anything like that, then being exposed
 to a Dementor for less than a minute wouldn't have made him say it.
 That's what they were probably thinking.
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Less than a minute of Dementor exposure couldn't create a whole new evil
 person inside you out of nothing.
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But if that person was 
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Does the Headmaster know?
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Hermione looked up at the Headmaster, and found that Albus Dumbledore was
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Words came into her mind.
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Do not speak of it,
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 said the will of Dumbledore to her.
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You know,
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 thought Hermione.
 
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About his dark side.
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I know.
 But this is beyond even that.
 Fawkes's song cannot reach him, where he is lost.
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I have a plan,
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Patience.
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Something about the tenor of that thought made Hermione nervous.
 
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What sort of plan?
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It is better that you not know,
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A fair point,
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I am about to tell you; steel yourself so as not to react.
 Are you ready? Good.
 I am going to pretend to cast the Killing Curse on Professor McGonagall
 
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 DO NOT REACT, Hermione!
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That took work.
 The Headmaster really was crazy! That wouldn't bring Harry 
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, he'd 
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But that is not true darkness,
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That is protectiveness, that is love.
 Fawkes will be able to reach him, then.
 And when Harry sees that Minerva is alive after all, it will return him
 fully.
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The thought came to Hermione
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I doubt that will work,
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and you may not like the way he reacts if you try.
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She hadn't really meant that seriously! It was too
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Then her eyes moved, breaking gaze with the Headmaster, going to the boy
 looking around with empty, despising eyes as his mouth kept chewing and
 swallowing bar after bar of chocolate without effect.
 Her heart wrenched, and suddenly a lot of things didn't seem to matter,
 only that there was a chance.
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There was a compulsion to chew and swallow chocolate.
 The response to compulsion was killing.
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People had gathered around and stared.
 That was annoying.
 The response to annoyance was killing.
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Other people were chattering in the background.
 That was insolent.
 The response to insolence was to inflict pain, but since none of them were
 useful, killing them would be simpler.
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Killing all those people would be difficult.
 But many of them didn't trust Quirrell, who was strong.
 Finding exactly the right trigger could cause them all to kill each other.
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Then a person leaned over into the field of vision and did something completely
 strange, something that belonged to a foreign mode of thought, for which
 there was only a single response stored anywhere
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She heard the gasps around her, and they didn't matter, she maintained the
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She heard the gasps around her, and they didn't matter, she maintained the
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And Harry's arms came up and pushed her away, and his lips yelled, “
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“I think he'll be all right now,” the Headmaster said, looking at where
 Harry was crying in great wretched sobs as Fawkes crooned over him.
 “Excellently done, Miss Granger.
 Do you know, not even I would have expected that to actually work?”
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The phoenix's song wasn't meant for her, Hermione knew, but she could still
 be soothed by it, which she needed, because her life was officially over.
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