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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.
I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.
What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.
So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.
How’s Norbert doin’?” Norbert?” Charlie laughed. “The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.” Wha—Norbert’s a girl?
Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.
Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.
"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."
From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.
Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.
I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.
Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.
'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'
And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?
Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.
Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.
You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.
Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore