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by
J.K. Rowling
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August 19 - August 21, 2018
“All right,” said Harry, “all right .
Uncle Vernon sat back down, breathing like a winded rhinoceros
“Bad Dobby!
There’s a loophole in the law, you’ll find. . . . As long as he wasn’t intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn’t
“Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!” shouted Mrs. Weasley.
Ron’s old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies.
This is one of my favorite sentences in the entire book.
“I went on the Underground —” “Really?” said Mr. Weasley eagerly. “Were there escapators? How exactly —”
IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE WE’LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT BACK HOME.”
“Why,” demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, “have you outlined all Lockhart’s lessons in little hearts?”
“Signed photos? You’re giving out signed photos, Potter?” Loud and scathing, Draco Malfoy’s voice echoed around the courtyard.
“Everyone line up!” Malfoy roared to the crowd. “Harry Potter’s giving out signed photos!”
“Weasley would like a signed photo, Potter,” smirked Malfoy. “It’d be worth more than his family’s whole house —”
“Who’s giving out signed photos?”
Pinned to Lockhart’s side and burning with humiliation, Harry saw Malfoy slide smirking back into the crowd. “Come on then, Mr. Creevey,” said Lockhart, beaming at Colin. “A double portrait, can’t do better than that, and we’ll both sign it for you.”
“You’d better hope Creevey doesn’t meet Ginny, or they’ll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.”
The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase “Harry Potter fan club.”
“Harry,” said Hagrid abruptly as though struck by a sudden thought. “Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I’ve heard you’ve bin givin’ out signed photos. How come I haven’t got one?”
“I
have not been giving out signed photos,” he said hotly. “If Lockhart’s still spreading that around —”
“If yeh ask me, she wouldn’ say no ter a signed —” “Oh, shut up,” said Harry. Ron snorted with laughter
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
“You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago — the precise date is uncertain — by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age. The four school Houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin.
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin would help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. .
“Time to split up the dream team, I think,” he sneered. “Weasley, you can partner Finnigan. Potter —” Harry moved automatically toward Hermione. “I don’t think so,” said Snape, smiling coldly. “Mr. Malfoy, come over here. Let’s see what you make of the famous Potter. And you, Miss Granger — you can partner Miss Bulstrode.”
“Serpensortia!”
“Oh, Potter, you rotter, oh, what have you done, You’re killing off students, you think it’s good fun —”
Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, “Make way for the Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through. .
INQUIRY AT THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC Arthur Weasley, Head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, was today fined fifty Galleons for bewitching a Muggle car.
“Is Lockhart the smarmiest bloke you’ve ever met, or what?” Ron said to Harry as they left the infirmary and started up the stairs toward Gryffindor Tower.
His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”
“you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.
help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. . . . Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
Draco Malfoy was strutting around the school as though he had just been appointed Head Boy.
“Well, er, if you must know, Ginny, er, walked in on me the other day when I was — well, never mind — the point is, she spotted me doing something and I, um, I asked her not to mention it to anybody. I must say, I did think she’d keep her word. It’s nothing, really, I’d just rather —” Harry had never seen Percy look so uncomfortable.
“Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four.”
“I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling. “You will both receive Special Awards for Services to the School and — let me see — yes, I think two hundred points apiece for Gryffindor.”
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
