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Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.
I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se nombra.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.
Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.
Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
Harry, we saw Uranus up close!” said Ron, still giggling feebly. “Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus — ha ha ha —
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.
Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.
Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life.
If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.
I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.
You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.
There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.