Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Chapter 7

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Chapter 7: The Slug Club
Harry is becoming obsessed with what Malfoy was doing and decides that the incident in the robe store was because he had become a Death Eater and was hiding the Dark Mark on his arm. Harry convinces Mr Weasley to investigate Malfoy further before getting on the train to Hogwarts.

Harry travels to school with Neville and Luna but is constantly harrassed by younger girls who admire him. Professor Slughorn invites Harry and Neville to have lunch with him in the teacher's compartment along with other students connected to important families. One of them is Gryffindor student Cormac McLaggen. During questions from Slughorn, Harry refuses to reveal anything about the prophecy, but it is clear that the whole lunch is about Slughorn trying to suck up to the students and prove himself as important. Malfoy is upset that he wasn't invited to lunch, but tries to dismiss it as unimportant.

Harry sneaks into Malfoy's carriage under his invisibility cloak and hides up in a luggage rack to eavesdrop. Malfoy is lying with his head in Pansy Parkinson's lap. Draco lets on that he is one some sort of job for the Dark Lord and that he might not even go back to school the following year. When the others leave, Malfoy stays behind. He had seen Harry's foot under the cloak, and then paralyzes him with a spell, punches and kicks him in the face, and covers him with the invisibility cloak so that Harry will be trapped and hidden, probably to be transported back to London on the train with nobody finding him.

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