There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.


J.K. Rowling

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"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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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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Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
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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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