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‘And may I thank the forty-six people who have so far sent me cards!
Harry would have given all the gold in Gringotts to evaporate on the spot.
Tom after my father, Marvolo after my grandfather.’
‘When in doubt, go to the library.’
‘That remains to be seen,’
‘you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.’
This snake, which may reach gigantic size, and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad.
‘Ginny Weasley opened the Chamber of Secrets. She strangled the school roosters and daubed threatening messages on the walls. She set the serpent of Slytherin on four Mudbloods, and the Squib’s cat.’
TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE
I AM LORD VOLDEMORT
‘Twice – in your past, in my future – we have met.
‘So. Your mother died to save you. Yes, that’s a powerful counter-charm.
Both half-bloods, orphans, raised by Muggles.
Let’s match the powers of Lord Voldemort, heir of Salazar Slytherin, against famous Harry Potter, and the best weapons Dumbledore can give him.’
‘Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four.’
‘What interests me most,’ said Dumbledore gently, ‘is how Lord Voldemort managed to enchant Ginny, when my sources tell me he is currently in hiding in the forests of Albania.’
‘Very few people know that Lord Voldemort was once called Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago, at Hogwarts.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
‘Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,’
‘You must have shown me real loyalty down in the Chamber. Nothing but that could have called Fawkes to you.’
His own very rare gift, Parseltongue … resourcefulness … determination … a certain disregard for rules,’
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.’
Very strange tales they told me, too.
‘Oh, no one will be able to do that,’ said Dumbledore, smiling at Harry.
He had been thirteen years old, without realising it, for a whole hour.
Percy, who was in his seventh and final year at Hogwarts, was looking particularly smug.
Broomstick Servicing Kit.
But a reckless rage had come over Harry.
‘Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard.
‘But it’ll be fascinating to study them from the wizarding point of view,’
‘I don’t go looking for trouble,’ said Harry, nettled. ‘Trouble usually finds me.’
‘The new password’s Fortuna Major!’
He had touched a nerve.
‘It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.’
‘Cracking Keeper,’ said Fred.
‘Fortuna Major,’ said Harry listlessly.
Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
Black was best man when James married Lily.
Norbert was the baby dragon Hagrid had once won in a game of cards.
‘Scurvy cur,’
‘Have you been imagining some act of glorious heroism?
O.W.Ls (Ordinary Wizarding Levels). Percy was getting ready to sit his N.E.W.Ts (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests),
Sirius is Padfoot. Peter is Wormtail. James was Prongs.’
Sirius here played a trick on him which nearly killed him,
‘There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,’
‘But I have no power to make other men see the truth,
‘We’ve gone back in time,’ Hermione whispered, lifting the chain off Harry’s neck in the darkness. ‘Three hours back …’
‘It’s called a Time-Turner,’
Nobody’s supposed to change time, nobody!
‘Pettigrew owes his life to you.
