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by
John Tiffany
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May 18 - May 22, 2024
“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
what does my opinion matter anymore? I am paint and memory, Harry, paint and memory.
A Patronus is a magical charm, a projection of all your most positive feelings, and takes the shape of the animal with whom you share the deepest affinity. It is a gift of light. If you can conjure a Patronus, you can protect yourself against the world. Which, in some of our cases, seems like a necessity sooner rather than later.
People say parenting is the hardest job in the world — they’re wrong — growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.
you’re kind, Scorpius. To the depths of your belly, to the tips of your fingers.
The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better.
I bloody love you, Hermione Granger, and whatever time says — I’d like the opportunity to say so in front of lots of other people.
Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of
humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show them your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.
Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. Paint . . . and memory . . . and love.
it is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past.
Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons not what they needed, but what we needed. We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.
People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are — have always been — heroic in really quiet ways.
Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger. (She turns towards him. He smiles.) And I’m mildly enjoying it.
The child of Bellatrix Lestrange and you. I was born in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts. A battle you are going to lose. I have come to save you.
I’ve never fought alone, you see. And I never will.
A lot of people have tried to hurt me — but my son! You dare hurt my son!
HARRY flinches as green light flashes around the auditorium. ALBUS takes his hand. HARRY grasps hold of it. He needs it.
HARRY flinches as green light flashes around the auditorium. ALBUS takes his hand. HARRY grasps hold of it. He needs it.
Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead .
Hard though it is to leave yeh. I want yeh to know — yeh won’t be forgotten — not
Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry. Hello, Harry Potter. I’m Rubeus Hagrid. And I’m gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not. ’Cos yeh’ve had it tough, not that yeh know it yet. An’ yer gonna need friends.
