"J. K. Rowling - 06 Harry Potter and The half blood Prince" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rowling J. K)

'Now, wait just one moment!' Fudge had vanished in a shower
of green sparks.

Whatever the press and the opposition might say, the
Prime Minister was not a foolish man. It had not escaped his
notice that, despite Fudge's assurances at their first meeting,
they were now seeing rather a lot of each other, nor that
Fudge was becoming more flustered with each visit. Little
though he liked to think about the Minister for Magic (or, as
he always called Fudge in his head, the Other Minister), the
Prime Minister could not help but fear that the next time
Fudge appeared it would be with graver news still. The sight,
therefore, of Fudge stepping out of the fire once more, looking
dishevelled and fretful and sternly surprised that the
Prime Minister did not know exactly why he was there, was
about the worst thing that had happened in the course of this
extremely gloomy week.

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'How should I know what's going on in the -er
-wizard
ing
community?' snapped the Prime Minister now. 'I have a
country to run and quite enough concerns at the moment
without '

'We have the same concerns,' Fudge interrupted. 'The
Brockdale bridge didn't wear out. That wasn't really a hurricane.
Those murders were not the work of Muggles. And
Herbert Chorley's family would be safer without him. We are
currently making arrangements to have him transferred to
St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. The
move should be effected tonight.'

'What do you ... I'm afraid I ... what?' blustered the Prime
Minister.

Fudge took a great, deep breath and said, 'Prime Minister, I
am very sorry to have to tell you that he's back. He Who Must
Not Be Named is back.'

'Back? When you say "back" ... he's alive? I mean '

The Prime Minister groped in his memory for the details of
that horrible conversation of three years previously, when
Fudge had told him about the wizard who was feared above
all others, the wizard who had committed a thousand terrible
crimes before his mysterious disappearance fifteen years