Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Lord Frederick Leighton The Garden of the Hesperides painting

Lord Frederick Leighton The Garden of the Hesperides painting
Lord Frederick Leighton The Fisherman and the Syren painting
Lord Frederick Leighton Solitude painting
Harry remained within the confines of the Burrow's gardenover the next few weeks. He spent most of his days playing two-a-side Quidditch in the Weasleys' orchard (he and Hermione against Ron and Ginny; Hermione was dreadful and Ginny good, so they were reasonably well matched) and his evenings eating triple helpings of everything Mrs. Weasley put in front of him.
It would have been a happy, peaceful holiday had it not been for the stones of disappearances, odd accidents, even of deaths now appearing almost daily in the Prophet. Sometimes Bill and Mr. Weasley brought Homenews before it even reached the paper. To Mrs. Weasley’s displeasure, Harry's sixteenth birthday celebrations were marred by grisly tidings brought to the party by Remus Lupin, who was looking gaunt and grim, his brown hair streaked liberally with gray, his clothes more ragged and patched than ever.

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