J.K. Rowling quote: "Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were Harry’s only living relatives. They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot."

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
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Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...
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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...
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As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies l...
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Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her lef...
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Excellent,” said Lupin, looking up as Tonks and Harry entered.
“We’ve got about a minute...
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Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school frie...
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You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But yo...
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And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder...
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You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even tho...
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And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex! - James Potter
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And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!
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I will if you go out with me, Evans
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Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes.
“You’re less lik...
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Quelli che ci amano non ci lasciano mai veramente.
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My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp...
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Then you should have died!" Roared Black. "Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have do...
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I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thou...
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Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously th...
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Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”

A bearlike black dog had appeared...
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Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
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Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?
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You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .
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But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep...
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He's not a child!" said Sirius impatiently.

"He's not an adult either!" said Mrs. Weasley...
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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
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You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!
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He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
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Remus Lupin: I am not being ridiculous. Tonks deserves somebody young and whole.
Mr. Weasley: B...
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What you fear most of all is-fear.
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I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and ...
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Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been...
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Loony, Loopy Lupin.
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Harry -- yer a wizard.
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Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many peop...
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Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as...
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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Well, that won’t matter if they turn out to cure seasickness or something, will it?” said Ron, g...
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thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing . . . maybe you’ve got to attack him while he’s i...
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Well, I can certainly see why we’re trying to keep them alive,” said Malfoy sarcastically. “Wh...
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Now, Ron, the Sorting’s much more important than food,” said Nearly Headless Nick as “Madley, ...
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Bagman swore loudly. ‘Damn them!’ he said, looking quite distracted,
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Malfoy got Hermione!” Ron said. “Look!” He forced Hermione to show Snape her teeth — she was...
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I might be seeing you all sooner than you think,” said Charlie, grinning, as he hugged Ginny good-...
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Yeah, well, yeh get weirdos in every breed. I’m not sayin’ there isn’t the odd elf who’d tak...
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Right little ray of sunshine, aren’t you?” said Ron. “You and Professor Trelawney should get t...
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He wrenched the hangings shut around his four-poster, leaving Harry standing there by the door, star...
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Ron’s voice now joined the others’. “What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “O...
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sporadic howls from the ghoul who lived in the attic.
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Bill and Charlie both had their wands out, and were making two battered old tables fly high above th...
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Sirius shook his head and said, “She’s got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If y...
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The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with pe...
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What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry...
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Don’t you?” said Moody quietly. “It’s very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter’s name in...
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He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville’s snores, ...
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Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?’ Dumbledore asked calmly.
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Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief.
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Dobby non può permettere che Harry Potter si perde il suo rosso!
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Lo, Fawkes,’ said Harry quietly. He stroked the phoenix’s beautiful scarlet and gold plumage. Fa...
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Oh,’ said Mr Crouch, looking over at Percy in mild surprise. ‘Yes – thank you, Weatherby.’ F...
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Good one,” said Ron, copying it down. “Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don’t you...
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Myrtle," Harry said slowly, "how am I supposed to breathe?"

At this, Myrtle's eyes filled...
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I asked you,” said Moody quietly, “whether he forgave the scum who never even went to look for h...
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It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now … nine ...
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Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange t...
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giants. They can’t all be horrible. . . . It’s the same sort of prejudice that people have to...
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Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?” he asked calmly.
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A curly-haired third-year Hufflepuff girl to whom Harry had never spoken in his life asked him to go...
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He wanted to end it on his terms, that’s all. . . .
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Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive wi...
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They sat down at the Gryffindor table and helped themselves to lamb chops and potatoes. Hermione beg...
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Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with ...
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Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just...
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I like a healthy breeze ’round my privates, thanks.
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Moody limped around the table and bent down; Harry thought he was reading the S.P.E.W. notebook, unt...
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Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange t...
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Well, they’re okay!” said Ron angrily, looking at Harry’s robes. “Why couldn’t I have some...
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Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret …
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Aaah, ’at’s be’er,’ said Ron, with his mouth full of mashed potato.
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Harry scanned the table more carefully. Tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was sitt...
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The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them. “Wangoballwime?” “Sorry?...
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Listen,” said Harry firmly. “If you don’t take it, I’m throwing it down the drain. I don’t...
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It’s got to be a pretty boring life, hasn’t it, being a hat?
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You know, house-elves get a very raw deal!” said Hermione indignantly. “It’s slavery, that’s...
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He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out O...
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There was no hope . . . no help to be had. And as he heard Voldemort draw nearer still, he knew o...
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That woman’s got it in for the Ministry of Magic!” said Percy furiously. “Last week she was sa...
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You are blinded,” said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, hi...
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I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, ...
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E' strano, ma quando si ha paura di qualcosa, e si darebbe tutto per rallentare il tempo, quest'ulti...
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Snape, of course, would no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry.
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But I had my wand hidden up my sleeve," he assured Padma Patil,... [Ron revising the story in the 2n...
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A week ago, Harry would have said finding a partner for a dance would be a cinch compared to taking ...
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Curiosity is not a sin,” he said. “But we should exercise caution with our curiosity . . . ye...
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Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find his Wheezy—"
"Find my what?"
"—and take ...
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Well, if they’re any bigger than this lot, even Hagrid won’t be able to handle them,” said Har...
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Not going to have a very good month, are you?” she said sardonically as Crookshanks curled up in h...
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I haven’t got a clue what this lot’s supposed to mean,” he said, staring down at a long list o...
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You all righ'?"
"Yeah,"
"No yeh're not... 'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be.
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Harry had been picturing his parents’ deaths over and over again for three years now, ever since h...
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Not a week has passed since I became headmaster of this school when I haven’t had at least one owl...
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That’s not the song it sang when it Sorted us,” said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. �...
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Death,
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Oh it was my pleasure, dears,” said Mrs. Weasley. “I’d invite you for Christmas, but … well,...
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He speaks over two hundred! Mermish and Gobbledegook and Troll …” “Anyone can speak Troll,” ...
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Acıyı bir süreliğine uyuşturmak, sonunda onu hissettiğinde daha da büyük acı çekmene yol a...
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Ah, this is your cousin, is it, Harry?” said Mr. Weasley, taking another brave stab at making conv...
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The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this. It is possible that some of your parents wi...
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Thought I’d send this with Pig anyway. Harry stared at the word “Pig,” then looked up at the t...
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What’s that?” said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood besid...
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The school nurse had seen what Aunt Petunia’s eyes — so sharp when it came to spotting fingerpri...
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I will settle, in the short term,” said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, “for...
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if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very l...
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Mrs. Weasley glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner. Harry liked this clock. It was complete...
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It’s all in Hogwarts, A History. Though, of course, that book’s not entirely reliable. A Revised...
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So, Harry,' said Dumbledore quietly. "Before you got lost in my thoughts, you wanted to tell me some...
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He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand,’ said Dumbledore curtly. ‘Understanding i...
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I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry,' said Dumbledore, twiddling ...
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Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the H...
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The truth is generally preferable to lies...
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Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to b...
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If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clo...
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Oh, shut up, Weatherby.
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Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear...
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Kill the spare.

-Voldemort
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What would come, would come...and he would have to meet it when it did.
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What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to himself) was someone like — some...
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Who’s avoiding you?” said Ron, sitting down next to them. “Wish you would,” said Fred, looki...
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We’ve been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually ...
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Harry -
I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of st...
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He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to him or hit him, both seemed quite appealing...
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But I think Durmstrang must be somewhere in the far north," said Hermione thoughtfully. "Somewhere v...
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Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.
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So...you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up m...
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Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you’re searching, ...
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Harry took a deep, steadying breath and then said, “Okay, I can’t see the World Cup. Can I go no...
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A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poison...
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Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"

"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
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He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip...
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Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri...
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The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
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But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
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Giggling should be made illegal.
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OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble st...
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There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
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Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me...
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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ...
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Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint...
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Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
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Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
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We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
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I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING

He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
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Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
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She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
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I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
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He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
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You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
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I hate being poor.
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As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
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Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
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Play to your strengths."

"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
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Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
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No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
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She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
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You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
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Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
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Oh, shut up Weatherby.
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Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
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He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
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Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
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Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
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Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
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Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
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Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
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Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
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She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
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Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were Harry’s only living relatives. They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot.

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Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were Harry’s only living relatives. They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot.

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