J.k. Rowling Quotes

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?''No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

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

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Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless..

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So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?”“Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to.”“He will not be single-handed!” said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes.“Oh yes he will, Minerva!” said Dumbledore sharply. “Hogwarts needs you!

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You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team? said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains.

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I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan

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Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this? Harry asked.Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him! said Lavender fretfully.Is he? said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.

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One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

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Yeah,” said Harry. “No more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly .

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Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —”“That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

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I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

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Albus Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there.Welcome! he said. 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!Thank you!He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered. Harry didn't know whether to laugh or not.“Is he — a bit mad?” he asked Percy uncertainly.Mad? said Percy airily. He's a genius! Best wizard in the world! But he is a bit mad, yes. Potatoes, Harry?

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At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability.

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You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. “They really know their stuff. . . .”“Oh, they only know flashy stuff that’s no real use to anyone,” said Hermione disparagingly.“No real use?” said Ron in a strained voice. “Hermione, they’ve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . .

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Listen, Harr,y can I have a go on it? Can I?I don't think anyone should ride that broom just yet! said Hermoine shrilly.Harry and Ron looked at her.What d'you think Harry's going to do with it - sweep the floor? said Ron.

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Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

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Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

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Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

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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.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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

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Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

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He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here...

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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

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I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

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Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

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An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart. . . .Harry’s eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn’t see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder . . .And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn’t . . . a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him —

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I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

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He must have known I'd want to leave you.No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

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I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

~ J.k. Rowling

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

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You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

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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 for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi.(...)They couldn´t keep me company as humans, so they kept me company as animals.

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All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that.

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If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.'No offence, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic.

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Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

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By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

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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. (Albus Dumbledore)

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Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

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