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Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.

I think it's the books that you read when you're young that live with you forever.

My brother Albus wanted a lot of

our family's house.

Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time

Filch and Madam Pince were secretly in love with each other.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you, said Dumbledore quietly.

Wake up, Mr No-Maj . . . With

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

from his current place of safety on

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brains.

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

Words have power.

I like a quiet life, you know me.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At

Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood

Offend Dobby!" choked the elf. "Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard - like an equal -

Until the very end

Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped cut, like a bolt of lightning.

When there's strife and when there's trouble Call on Peevsie, he'll make double!' The

That suggests that what you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise, Harry.

Bagman swore loudly. 'Damn them!' he said, looking quite distracted,

Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

Harry didn't see how he could - yet he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds.

Early next morning, Harry woke with a plan fully formed in his mind, as though his sleeping brain had been working on it all night.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

She's as nutty as squirrel poo.

Harry, did you ever even open A History of Magic?

Our Headmaster is taking a short break,' said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.

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.

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

Ah," said Dumbledore gently, "yes. Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

The cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.

To the well organized mind, death is just the beginning of the next adventure.

You shouldn't have done that.

Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts.

House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales

Let muggles manage without us!

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.

It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumours.

Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue, said Sirius.

She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ...

Did you know - then?" asked Harry.
"Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

His feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.

Harry couldn't blame them.

Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see.

To hurt is as human as breathe.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am
-Luna Lovegood

( ... ) "to have a hairy heart" has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfeeling witch or wizard.

Snape, of course, would no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry.

... and you're kind, Scorpius. To the depths of your belly, to the tips of your fingers.

I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.

Several people in green robes were

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough ...

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel - Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

I set out for your parents' house straightaway.

Death comes for us all in the end.

Size is no guarantee of power.

It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.

Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good ...

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Giggling should be made illegal.

NO!
The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.

My brain surprises even me sometimes.

He was finding it hard at the moment to decide whether he wanted to be with people or not.

Karkus seemed ter be quite int'rested in what

He yearned not to feel ... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him ...

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Will you stay with me?"
"Until the very end.

Do I look stupid? snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

Don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer. . . .

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

The forest hides many secrets.

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.

Its okay Ginny. Don't be upset. We'll send you a toilet seat or something. Fred and George said to Ginny

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

My life was nothing but misery at this place and now people come along ruining my death!

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again ... and again ... and again ...

My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice." - Newt Scamander

Fellow seems quite unbalanced," said Fudge, staring after him. "I'd watch out for him if I were you, Dumbledore.

the wizard prison,

I think you're working and learning until you die.

he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

Well, it is a bit long, dear," said Mrs. Weasley gently.