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 | | Filch took his dinner in his usual melancholy fashion; and having counted all of the heads in the hall twice to make certain none were missing, and then beguiled the rest of the early evening prowling the corridors with Mr. |
 | | Filch then remembered that he had recently heard young Bertha Jorkins bragging in a loud and stupid fashion about how she had, finally in her last year, managed to discover a means of shortcutting from the third floor. |
 | | Filch could not feel it himself, but this was clearly the case; for though the ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the shakings of suppressed laughter. |
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