It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.
It was better than Harry had expected. As for Dumbledore’s writing to the Dursleys, that was nothing. Harry knew perfectly well they’d just be disappointed that the Whomping Willow hadn’t squashed him...
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.
Is that a Sneakoscope? said Hermione interestedly, standing up for a better look. Yeah … mind you, it’s a very cheap one, Ron said. It went haywire just as I was tying it to Errol’s leg to send it to...
I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, wourked out the truth...And they didn´t desert me at all. Instead they did something...
I thought we’d seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of the Invisible Book of Invisibility — cost a fortune, and we never found them. . .
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.
I suppose he is asleep? said Ron quietly as the witch slid the compartment door closed. I mean — he hasn’t died, has he? No, no, he’s breathing, whispered Hermione
I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even, said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .He made wild motions with his arms as t...
I can not remember telling my parents that I was studying classics, they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have bee...
I am sorry too, said Lupin. Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.
How’s Norbert doin’?Norbert? Charlie laughed. The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.Wha—Norbert’s a girl?
How d’you spell ‘belligerent’? said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. It can’t be B — U — M —No, it isn’t, said Hermione. And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either.
Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to t...
He sounds exactly like Moody, said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. 'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls....
Has Ron saved a goal yet? asked Hermione, peering over the top of Well, he can do it if he doesn't think anyone’s watching him, said Fred, rolling his eyes. So all we have to do is ask the crowd to tu...
Harry uttered an inarticulate yell of rage: In that instant, he cared not whether he lived or died. Pushing himself to his feet again, he staggered blindly toward Snape, the man he now hated as much a...
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.