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John Tiffany
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July 19 - July 19, 2021
People always look when you three are together. And apart. People always look at you.
The trio
I’m a Granger-Weasley, you’re a Potter — everyone will want to be friends with us, we’ve got the pick of anyone we want.
And he’s my cousin. (As they turn.) Rose Granger-Weasley. Nice to meet you.
“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
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.
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.
DUMBLEDORE: 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. I
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.
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.
