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need something that’s in blood. Hemogoblins, I think it’s called.’
The other wizards looked at him.
The Dean shrugged.’Search me,’ he said.’Hemo-goblins. That’s what it said. It’s all to do with people having iron in their blood.’ ‘I’m damn sure I’ve got no iron goblins in my blood,’ said the Senior-Wrangler.
‘At least they’re better than zombies,’ said the Dean.’A much better class of people. Vampires don’t go shuffling around the whole time.’ ‘People can be turned into zombies, you know,’ said the Lecturer in Recent work. No. 95, Spikefish liver and Dum-dum root . . . didn’t work. No. 96 -‘ ‘What are you talking about?’ the Archchancellor demanded. ‘I was simply pointing out the intrinsic unlikelihood of -‘ ‘Shut up,’ said the Archchancellor, matter-of-factly.’Seems to me . . . seems to me . . . look, death must be going on, right? Death has to happen. That’s what bein’ alive is all about. You’re alive, and then you’re dead. It can’t just stop happening.’
‘But he didn’t turn up for Windle, ‘ the Dean pointed out.Runes, in conversational tones.’You don’t even need magic. Just the liver of a certain rare fish and the extract of a particular kind of root. One spoonful, and when you wake up, you ‘re a zombie.’ ‘What type of fish?’ said the Senior Wrangler.‘How shauld I know?’‘How should anyone know, then?’ said the Senior Wrangler nastily.’Did someone wake up one morning and say, hey, here’s an idea, I’ll just turn someone into a zombie, all I’ll need is some rare fish liver and a piece of root, it’s just a matter of finding the right one? You can see the queue outside the hut, can’t you? No. 94, Red Stripefish liver and Maniac root . . . didn’t
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