J.K. Rowling quote: "Would the realization of Sukhvinder’s desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother’s implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?"

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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Would the realization of Sukhvinder’s desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother’s implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?

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