Late at night, Harry sat at the desk in his bedroom, casually flipping through the stack of the latest newspapers thrown on the table. He had been sitting there for nearly four hours, until the street outside gradually grew dark. Dumbledore's letter had mentioned that he would come to Number 4, Privet Drive at eleven o'clock to take him to Number 12, Grimmauld Place to spend the rest of the holidays with Sirius Black. This was undoubtedly good news. The only problem was that the second hand moved too slowly, forcing him to distract himself by reading the newspapers to make the impending wait less agonizing.
The front-page headline of the first newspaper read: *Scrimgeour Succeeds Fudge*.
Most of the front page was occupied by a large black-and-white photograph of a man waving at Harry as he read the paper.
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