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June 5 - June 14, 2025
The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.
“He’s not your son,” said Sirius quietly. “He’s as good as,” said Mrs. Weasley fiercely. “Who else has he got?” “He’s got me!”
He had been touched by what she had said about his being as good as a son,
Said Hufflepuff, “I’ll teach the lot, And treat them just the same.”
Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest, And taught them all she knew,
For our Hogwarts is in danger From external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her Or we’ll crumble from within. I have told you, I have warned you. . . .
“We were all in the D.A. together,” said Neville quietly. “It was all supposed to be about fighting You-Know-Who, wasn’t it? And this is the first chance we’ve had to do something real — or was that all just a game or something?”
“Well, I’b going do find dem wid you,” said Neville firmly.
“There’s nothing you can do, Harry . . . nothing. . . . He’s gone.”
“SHE KILLED SIRIUS!” bellowed Harry. “SHE KILLED HIM — I’LL KILL HER!”
“We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom,”
your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness —”
Let him kill us. . . . End it, Dumbledore. . . . Death is nothing compared to this. . . . And I’ll see Sirius again. . . . And as Harry’s heart filled with emotion, the creature’s coils loosened, the pain was gone,
There was a terrible hollow inside him he did not want to feel or examine, a dark hole where Sirius had been, where Sirius had vanished. He did not want to have to be alone with that great, silent space, he could not stand it —
“I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE —”
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
“You have now lost your mother, your father, and the closest thing to a parent you have ever known. Of course you care.”
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young .
Professor Snape grew worried that you still believed Sirius to be a captive of Lord Voldemort’s. He alerted certain Order members at once.”
In the meantime he, Professor Snape, intended to search the forest for you.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
you can still call home the place where your mother’s blood dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed
You fought a man’s fight. I was . . . prouder of you than I can say.
“I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed.
I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you mo...
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have watched you struggling under more burdens than any student who has ever passed through this school, and I could not bring myself to add another — the greatest one of all.”
The other was Neville Longbottom.”
It was your heart that saved you.”
It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever. Sirius seemed a million miles away already,
“You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess . . . that I rather thought . . . you had enough responsibility to be going on with.”
tear trickling down Dumbledore’s face into his long silver beard.
And yet sitting here on the edge of the lake, with the terrible weight of grief dragging at him, with the loss of Sirius so raw and fresh inside, he could not muster any great sense of fear.
He sat there for a long time, gazing out at the water, trying not to think about his godfather
Use it if you need me, all right?
He had been convinced, for a whole, shining minute, that he was going to see Sirius, talk to him again. . . .
“I still feel very sad about it sometimes. But I’ve still got Dad. And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?” “Er — isn’t
