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“Moody limped around the table and bent down; Harry thought he was reading the S.P.E.W. notebook, until he muttered, ‘Nice Cloak, Potter.’ Harry stared at him in amazement. The large chunk missing from Moody’s nose was particularly obvious at a few inches’ distance. Moody grinned. ‘Can your eye – I mean, can you –?’ ‘Yeah, it can see through Invisibility Cloaks,’ Moody said quietly. ‘And it’s come in useful at times, I can tell you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina