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J.K. Rowling
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May 25 - June 2, 2017
Uncle Vernon might still have been able to make his deal — if it hadn’t been for the owl.
for a short, plump, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a saber-toothed tiger.
Bless them, they’ll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it’s staring them in the face.
I will be taking up the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!”
It would have been better if he had shouted. Harry hated the disappointment in his voice. For some reason, he was unable to look Dumbledore in the eyes, and spoke instead to his knees.
He had been expelled from Hogwarts in his third year, but Harry had never found out why — any mention of the matter and Hagrid would clear his throat loudly and become mysteriously deaf until the subject was changed.
a voice to chill the bone marrow, a voice of breathtaking, ice-cold venom. “Come . . . come to me. . . . Let me rip you. . . . Let me tear you. . . . Let me kill you. . . .”
And then I had another slug attack all over a Special Award for Services to the School.
He was pale as smoke, and Harry could see right through him to the dark sky and torrential rain outside.
A highly polished collection of chains and manacles hung on the wall behind Filch’s desk.
“That Vanishing Cabinet was extremely valuable!”
there was a large puddle of water on the floor;
“Really, Severus,” said Professor McGonagall sharply, “I see no reason to stop the boy playing Quidditch.
Ginny Weasley seemed very disturbed by Mrs. Norris’s fate.
“They’ll catch the maniac who did it and have him out of here in no time.
We will return, if you please, to history, to solid, believable, verifiable fact!”
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin would help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. . . .
I’ve never seen her so upset, crying her eyes out,
“Oh, come on, no teacher’s going to fall for that,” said Ron. “They’d have to be really thick. . . .”
“I never thought I’d see the day when you’d be persuading us to break rules,”
“If he knew what he means to us, to the lowly, the enslaved, we dregs of the magical world!
“It means,” said Dumbledore, “that the Chamber of Secrets is indeed open again.”
“So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . .” He shook his head. “You know what, Harry? If he doesn’t stop trying to save your life he’s going to kill you.”
Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught,
Enemies of the Heir, Beware. Potter had some sort of run-in with Filch. Next thing we know, Filch’s cat’s attacked. That first year, Creevey, was annoying Potter at the Quidditch match, taking pictures of him while he was lying in the mud. Next thing we know — Creevey’s been attacked.”
Ginny didn’t find it amusing either. “Oh, don’t,” she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was planning to attack next,
Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .”
Harry couldn’t explain, even to himself, why he didn’t just throw Riddle’s diary away.
while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he’d had when he was very small, and had half-forgotten.
Hot all over at the thought of being given a valentine in front of a line of first years, which happened to include Ginny Weasley,
Ginny was staring from the diary to Harry, looking terrified.
“Half-blood, sir,” said Riddle. “Muggle father, witch mother.”
the Ministry of Magic is even now talking about closing the school. We are no nearer locating the — er — source of all this unpleasantness. . . .” Riddle’s eyes had widened. “Sir — if the person was caught — if it all stopped —
a tall wizard with long, sweeping auburn hair and a beard called to Riddle from the marble staircase. “What are you doing, wandering around this late, Tom?” Harry gaped at the wizard. He was none other than a fifty-years-younger Dumbledore.
Tom Riddle had turned Hagrid in because he was faced with the prospect of a Muggle orphanage if the school closed. Harry now knew exactly how he had felt.
“I expect you’d have Father’s vote, sir, if you wanted to apply for the job — I’ll tell Father you’re the best teacher here, sir —” Snape smirked as he swept off around the dungeon,
Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.
“The thing that lives in the castle,” said Aragog, “is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others. Well do I remember how I pleaded with Hagrid to let me go, when I sensed the beast moving about the school.”
Just then, Ginny Weasley came over and sat down next to Ron. She looked tense and nervous, and Harry noticed that her hands were twisting in her lap.
Powerful enough to start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start pouring a little of my soul back into her . . .”
“Voldemort,” said Riddle softly, “is my past, present, and future, Harry Potter. .
“You’re not,” he said, his quiet voice full of hatred. “Not what?” snapped Riddle. “Not the greatest sorcerer in the world,” said Harry, breathing fast. “Sorry to disappoint you and all that, but the greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore.
Harry seized the basilisk fang on the floor next to him and plunged it straight into the heart of the book.
Her bemused eyes traveled from the huge form of the dead basilisk, over Harry, in his blood-soaked robes, then to the diary in his hand.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar.
You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked students. 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.”
“Master has given a sock,”
his and Ron’s four hundred points for Gryffindor securing the House Cup for the second year running,
