Tell me one last thing, said Harry. Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES. . . . BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES . . . AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE W...
Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely d...
Someone's dead, said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here...
Someone laughed behind Harry. Turning, he saw Fred, George, and Lee Jordan hurrying down the staircase, all three of them looking extremely excited. Done it, Fred said in a triumphant whisper to Harry...
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
Some of the books the Ministry’s confiscated — Dad’s told me — there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone who read spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives. And some old witch in Bat...
Socks are Dobby’s favorite, favorite clothes, sir! he said, ripping off his odd ones and pulling on Uncle Vernon’s. I has seven now, sir. . . . But sir . . . he said, his eyes widening, having pulled...
So light a fire! Harry choked. Yes...of course...but there's no wood! ... HAVE YOU GONE MAD! Ron bellowed. ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!
So all I’ve got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone, Harry went on feverishly, then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off. … Well, I suppose Bane’ll be happy.
So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?Yep, said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. Then you get P...
Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where we...
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, t...
Ron: [mimicking Hermione] It's Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR. She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends!
Ron, said Hermione in a dignified voice, dipping the point of her quill into her ink pot, you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles! said Hermione. We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —What’s...
Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.
Ron held up his badge. Mrs Weasley let out a shriek just like Hermione’s. ‘I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! Oh, Ron, how wonderful! A prefect! That’s everyone in the family!’ ‘What are Fred and...
Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry.Don’t sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn’t I? he...