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by
J.K. Rowling
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June 5 - June 23, 2025
If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clock on Sunday. If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we’ll come and get you at five o’clock on Sunday anyway.
“It would’ve been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier and make it look like an accident. . . . Shame his mother likes him. . . .”
“Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry. . . .”
“Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.”
“I’ve been promoted,” Percy said before Harry could even ask, and from his tone, he might have been announcing his election as supreme ruler of the universe.
Big bones . . . the only thing that’s got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.”
“An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .”
“Myrtle!” Harry said in outrage, “I’m — I’m not wearing anything!”
“What d’you do, sneak up here in the evenings to watch the prefects take baths?” “Sometimes,” said Myrtle, rather slyly, “but I’ve never come out to speak to anyone before.” “I’m honored,” said Harry darkly. “You keep your eyes shut!”
Where There’s a Wand, There’s a Way.
Dobby cannot let Harry Potter lose his Wheezy!”
They went into Gladrags Wizardwear to buy a present for Dobby, where they had fun selecting the most lurid socks they could find, including a pair patterned with flashing gold and silver stars, and another that screamed loudly when they became too smelly.
If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
if you’re talking about me among yourselves, call me Snuffles,
“Winky is getting through six bottles a day now,” Dobby whispered to Harry.
Decent people are so easy to manipulate,
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
“Knew he was goin’ ter come back,” said Hagrid, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked up at him, shocked. “Known it fer years, Harry. Knew he was out there, bidin’ his time. It had ter happen. Well, now it has, an’ we’ll jus’ have ter get on with it. We’ll fight. Migh’ be able ter stop him before he gets a good hold. That’s Dumbledore’s plan, anyway. Great man, Dumbledore. ’S long as we’ve got him, I’m not too worried.”
“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.
“Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
Rita Skeeter” — Hermione’s voice trembled with quiet triumph — “is an unregistered Animagus. She can turn —” Hermione pulled a small sealed glass jar out of her bag. “— into a beetle.”
time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead,
