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by
J.K. Rowling
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January 17 - January 24, 2023
‘Lily Evans. One of the brightest I ever taught. Vivacious, you know. Charming girl. I used to tell her she ought to have been in my house. Very cheeky answers I used to get back, too.’
‘Mollywobbles,’
Sirius’s brother Regulus only managed a few days as far as I can remember.’
‘Yes sir.’ ‘There’s no need to call me “sir”, Professor.’
it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at The Burrow.
he caught a sudden waft of that flowery smell he had picked up in Slughorn’s dungeon. He looked round and saw that Ginny had joined them.
‘Two of spades: conflict,’ she murmured, as she passed the place where Harry crouched, hidden. ‘Seven of spades: an ill omen. Ten of spades: violence. Knave of spades: a dark young man, possibly troubled, one who dislikes the questioner –
On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.
‘Dangling people upside-down by the ankle?’ said Hermione. ‘Who puts their time and energy into making up spells like that?’
If you went out and got a bit of snogging done yourself you wouldn’t mind so much that everyone else does it!’
still trying not to think about Ginny any more than he could help, despite the fact that she kept cropping up in his dreams in ways that made him devoutly thankful that Ron could not perform Legilimency.
d’you think she overheard you being rude about Filch? I’ve always thought there might be something going on between them …’
arguing about whether or not Filch and Madam Pince were secretly in love with each other.
Ron’s disastrous first attempt, during which he somehow managed to give himself a spectacular handlebar moustache;
Harry inhaled half his mead up his nose as he started to laugh.
Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since.’ ‘Yeah, well, passing over Fred’s left buttock –’ ‘I beg your pardon?’ said Fred’s voice as the twins entered the kitchen.
you remind me a lot of James. He called it my “furry little problem”
‘Oh, that one had a great vogue during my time at Hogwarts,’
it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry.’
stick to Malfoy like a couple of wart plasters.’
why,’ asked Snape, ‘does it have the name “Roonil Wazlib” written inside the front cover?’ Harry’s heart missed a beat. ‘That’s my nickname,’ he said. ‘Your nickname,’ repeated Snape. ‘Yeah … that’s what my friends call me,’ said Harry.
‘I am not worried, Harry,’ said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. ‘I am with you.’
not Hagrid … not Hagrid too …
‘Kill me like you killed him, you coward –’
Harry reached out, straightened the half-moon spectacles upon the crooked nose and wiped a trickle of blood from the mouth with his own sleeve.
To the Dark Lord I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B.
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.
Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him,
