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"Fat' is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain... I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? 'You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!' 'Well,' I said, slightly nonplussed, 'the last time you saw me I'd just had a baby.'
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j-k-rowling
girls
fat
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J.K. Rowling |
9932e76
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Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.
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j-k-rowling
mcgonagall
peeves
poltergeist
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J.K. Rowling |
b67b01a
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Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
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prisoner-of-azkaban
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
dd329f9
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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voldemort
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
8981ef4
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You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
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harry-potter
j-k-rowling
dumbledore
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J.K. Rowling |
ffda576
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"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see it, then." She sat down. Ron looked taken aback. "Er -- all right." He cleared his throat. He waved his wand, but nothing happened. Scabbers stayed gray and fast asleep. "Are you sure that's a real spell?" said the girl. "Well, it's not very good, is it? I've tried a few simple spells just for practice and it's all worked for me. I've learned all our course books by heart, of course."
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magic
scabbers
j-k-rowling
hermione-granger
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
aaa0fda
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And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me --' 'JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall. 'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest --
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professor-mcgonagall
order-of-the-phoenix
jordan
j-k-rowling
quidditch
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J.K. Rowling |
cf08659
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Killing rips the soul apart.
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j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
1af7301
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.
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writing
inspirational
writing-inspiration
j-k-rowling
writers
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a68ce72
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There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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harry-potter
order-of-phoenix
j-k-rowling
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J. K. Rowling |
05e2050
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"Hello, Professor McGonagall," said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher. "What -- what are you doing?" said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret's progress through the air. "Teaching," said Moody. "Teach -- Moody, " shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms. "Yep," said Moody. "Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!" said Professor McGonagall weakly."
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harry-potter
goblet-of-fire
moody
j-k-rowling
mcgonagall
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J.K. Rowling |
0fa7619
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"Hermione, if Harry's seen a Grim, that's -- that's bad," he said. "My -- my uncle Bilius saw one and -- and he died twenty-four hours later!" "Coincidence," said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice. "You don't know what you're talking about!" said Ron, starting to get angry. "Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!" "There you are, then," said Hermione in a superior tone. "They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim's not an omen, it's the cause of death! And Harry's still with us because he's not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I'd better kick the bucket then!"
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harry-potter
hermione
ron
prisoner-of-azkaban
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
58ce3c3
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"I love you, Hermione," said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let Lavender hear you saying that." "I won't," said Ron into his hands. "Or maybe I will . . . then she'll ditch me . . ."
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love
hermione
ron
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
085c051
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"NO!" The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound."
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harry-potter
voldemort
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
b3cafba
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Get up, you useless lump, get up!
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humor
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
4081359
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He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric's Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.
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love
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
3622f1a
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But Death was cunning.
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j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
ae7fffd
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"Yeah," said Ron, "and lucky Harry doesn't lose his head in a crisis -- 'there's no wood,' ."
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j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
e1a1784
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At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.
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harry-potter
badass
j-k-rowling
dumbledore
powerful
power
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J.K. Rowling |
7530abe
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Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless --unless they've got to.
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harry-potter
page-215
the-bribe
deathly-hallows
j-k-rowling
parents
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J.K. Rowling |
ed393b9
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"You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there." He held out his hand to shake Harry's, but Harry didn't take it. "I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks," he said coolly."
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harry-potter
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
3332e90
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"But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now."
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harry-potter
inspiring
coolest
dobby
best-quotes-ever
j-k-rowling
powerful
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J.K. Rowling |
9b1c5ad
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"No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really."
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harry-potter
friends
trust
love
hermione
dedication
j-k-rowling
powerful
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J.K. Rowling |
724f540
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"He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see."
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harry-potter
friends
death
love
dobby
why
j-k-rowling
sad
loyalty
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J.K. Rowling |
a762615
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It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel -- past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...
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harry-potter
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
030df7a
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"No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."
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harry-potter
loss
death
so-many-feels
fred
depressing
why
j-k-rowling
sad
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J.K. Rowling |
de62398
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Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.
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harry-potter
best-character-ever
best-quotes-ever
awesome
badass
j-k-rowling
dumbledore
saved
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J.K. Rowling |
83b4c00
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By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.
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harry-potter
humor
professor-trelawney
order-of-the-phoenix
j-k-rowling
harry
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J.K. Rowling |
0646491
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Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
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death
the-casual-vacancy
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
64c1aa4
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The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...
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pain
harry-potter
life
wisdom
j-k-rowling
negativity
hard-times
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Brandi L. Bates |
70b074a
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In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.
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wallflower
j-k-rowling
self-esteem
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Robert Galbraith |
bec0852
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Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
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harry-potter
uncle-vernon
awesome
j-k-rowling
dumbledore
power
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J.K. Rowling |
6e3ecd8
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Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
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harry-potter
the-cave
the-coolest
j-k-rowling
dumbledore
fearless
powerful
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J.K. Rowling |
3f20d00
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"Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand..."
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harry-potter
old-wand
neville
j-k-rowling
sad
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J.K. Rowling |
d647256
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Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.
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harry-potter
friends
stand-up-for-friends
hagrid
j-k-rowling
powerful
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J.K. Rowling |
1c8a156
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"Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore"
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harry-potter
mouth-organ
half-blood-prince
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
ef693cb
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Training for the ballet, Potter?
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harry-potter
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
a9c5a42
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Hasn't your experience with the Time-Turner taught you anything, Harry? The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed...
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harry-potter
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
e7fbd8e
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For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within
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j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
43bbbfa
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Wenn wir traumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehort. <3
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prisoner-of-azkaban
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |
9587212
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"We want to fight." "And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely."
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fiction
fantasy
humor
fallen-legion
laura-kreitzer
potterverse
timeless-series
j-k-rowling
paranormal
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Laura Kreitzer |
38c5a6b
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Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.
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harry-potter
love
horcruxes
page-509
half-blood-prince
j-k-rowling
dumbledore
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J.K. Rowling |
abdb103
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You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.
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the-crimes-of-grindelwald
the-right-thing
newt-scamander
j-k-rowling
popularity
right-and-wrong
power
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J.K. Rowling |
e47c1b8
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I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.
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harry-potter
chapter-26
half-blood-prince
page-578
j-k-rowling
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J.K. Rowling |