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J.K. Rowling
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March 23 - March 23, 2020
The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead which was shaped like a bolt of lightning.
‘The poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your head down it – it might be sick.’
‘Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh’ve got yer mum’s eyes.’
‘It’s what we call non-magic folk like them. An’ it’s your bad luck you grew up in a family o’ the biggest Muggles I ever laid eyes on.’
Something very painful was going on in Harry’s mind. As Hagrid’s story came to a close, he saw again the blinding flash of green light, more clearly than he had ever remembered it before – and he remembered something else, for the first time in his life – a high, cold, cruel laugh.
Codswallop,
that. Never mess with goblins, Harry.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to
seven hundred and thirteen.’
‘Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle,
Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions.
Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC. A
it’s really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course.’
No two Ollivander wands are the same,
It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather – just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother – why, its brother gave you that scar.’
He Who Must Not Be Named did great things – terrible, yes, but great.’
He didn’t know what he was going to – but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.
Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon’s blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.
lots of bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth.
‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!’
It looked as though Harry had found out where the grubby little package from vault seven hundred and thirteen was.
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
‘I know a jinx when I see one, Hagrid, I’ve read all about them! You’ve got to keep eye contact, and Snape wasn’t blinking at all, I saw him!’
The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.
‘Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?’
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now, why don’t you put that admirable Cloak back on and get off to bed?’
He’s a centaur.’
Lord Voldemort showed me how wrong I was. There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it …
the place I should be was the one I had just left.
After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure. You
the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.’
Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.’
‘The truth.’ Dumbledore sighed. ‘It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
‘Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign … to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever. It is in your very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.’
‘There are all kinds of courage,’ said Dumbledore, smiling. ‘It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. I therefore award ten points to Mr Neville Longbottom.’
