(Pre-Intermediate) Nearly Headless Nick

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Dialogue:
«Hello, Nick,» said Harry.
«Hello, hello,» said Nearly Headless Nick.
«You look troubled, young Potter,» said Nick, folding a transparent letter.
«So do you,» said Harry.
«Ah,» Nearly Headless Nick waved an elegant hand, «a matter of no importance. . . . It’s not as though I really wanted to join. . . . Thought I’d apply, but apparently I ’don’t fulfill requirements’ -»
«But you would think, wouldn’t you,» he said suddenly, «that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt?»
«Oh — yes,» said Harry, surprised.
«I mean, nobody wishes more that my head had come off properly, I mean, it would have saved me a great deal of pain and ridicule. However -» Nearly Headless Nick shook his letter open and read furiously: «’We can only accept huntsmen whose heads have parted company with their bodies. It is with the greatest regret, therefore, that I must inform you that you do not fulfill our requirements. With very best wishes, Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore.’»
Nearly Headless Nick took several deep breaths and then said, in a far calmer tone, «So — what’s bothering you? Anything I can do?»

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