Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Chapter 15 Part 3

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Chapter 15 Part 3

It was easy, once out of the party, to pull his Invisibility Cloak out of his pocket and throw it over himself, for the corridor was quite deserted. What was more difficult was finding Snape and Malfoy. Harry ran down the corridor, the noise of his feet masked by the music and loud talk still issuing from Slughorn’s office behind him. Perhaps Snape had taken Malfoy to his office in the dungeons … or perhaps he was escorting him back to the Slytherin common room. … Harry pressed his ear against door after door as he dashed down the corridor until, with a great jolt of excitement, he crouched down to the keyhole of the last classroom in the corridor and heard voices. “… cannot afford mistakes, Draco, because if you are expelled —” “I didn’t have anything to do with it, all right?” “I hope you are telling the truth, because it was both clumsy and foolish. Already you are suspected of having a hand in it.” “Who suspects me?” said Malfoy angrily. “For the last time, I didn’t do it, okay? That …