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by
J.K. Rowling
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June 8 - June 11, 2022
He died as he lived: working always for the greater good
‘Always the tone of surprise,’
I open at the close.
‘Always the tone of surprise,’
Let nothing tarnish your memories of Albus Dumbledore!’
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
but the whole of the rest of his life was devoted to fighting the Dark Arts!
Never the whole truth! Never!’
‘I know he loved you.’
‘I love her like a sister and I reckon she feels the same way about me.
‘You – complete – arse – Ronald – Weasley!’
‘He must’ve known you’d always want to come back.’
And then he greeted Death as an old friend,
The three of them spoke at the same time; Hermione said, ‘the Cloak,’ Ron said, ‘the wand,’ and Harry said, ‘the stone.’
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them.
‘I don’t know what we’d do without you.’
Hallows versus Horcruxes?
but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to,
for every drop of his sweat and every blister felt like a gift to the elf who had saved their lives.
Here lies Dobby, a Free Elf.
‘I’ll speak to Griphook first.’
‘Mudblood, and proud of it!
‘You’ll be godfather?’
He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.
It was of Ron and Hermione that he thought as he whispered, ‘Expecto patronum!’
‘Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice,’
‘You actually are joking, Perce … I don’t think I’ve heard you joke since you were
the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
The green eyes found the black,
‘In the case of Harry and Lord Voldemort, to speak of one is to speak of the other.’
‘I have spied for you, and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter –
‘After all this time?’ ‘Always,’ said Snape.
Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here …
‘You’ll stay with me?’ ‘Until the very end,’
He tethered you to life while he lives!’
‘Hallows, not Horcruxes.’
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.’
