Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.

'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.


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If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clo...
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Oh, shut up, Weatherby.
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Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear...
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Kill the spare.

-Voldemort
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What would come, would come...and he would have to meet it when it did.
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What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to himself) was someone like — some...
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Who’s avoiding you?” said Ron, sitting down next to them. “Wish you would,” said Fred, looki...
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We’ve been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually ...
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Harry -
I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of st...
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He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to him or hit him, both seemed quite appealing...
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But I think Durmstrang must be somewhere in the far north," said Hermione thoughtfully. "Somewhere v...
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Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.
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So...you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up m...
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Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you’re searching, ...
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Harry took a deep, steadying breath and then said, “Okay, I can’t see the World Cup. Can I go no...
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A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poison...
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Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"

"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
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He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip...
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Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri...
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The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
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But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
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Giggling should be made illegal.
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OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble st...
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There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
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Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me...
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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ...
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Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint...
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Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
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Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
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We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
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I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
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Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
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She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
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I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
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He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
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You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
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I hate being poor.
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As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
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Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
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Play to your strengths."

"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
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Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
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No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
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She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
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You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
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Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
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Oh, shut up Weatherby.
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Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
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He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
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Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
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Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
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Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
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Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
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Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
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She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
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But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
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I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
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Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
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I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
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You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
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I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
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We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
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Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
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Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
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I love magic!
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Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
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Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
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He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
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Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
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I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
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Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
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Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
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Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
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Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
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I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
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Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
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Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?
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