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Queenie: People are easiest to read when they're hurting.
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J.K. Rowling |
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Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.
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J.K. Rowling |
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c6d0627
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Albus Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there. "Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" "Thank you!" He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered. Harry didn't know whether to laugh or not. "Is..
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potter
harry
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J.K. Rowling |
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4d059e4
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Albus Dumbledore had gotten to his feet. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there. "Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" "Thank you!" He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered. Harry didn't know whether to laugh or not. "Is..
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potter
harry
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J.K. Rowling |
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b7f6b40
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Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!" "Of course I haven't!" said Harry indignantly. "He killed my mum and dad!" "You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore loudly."
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J.K. Rowling |
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0e32929
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Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.
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J.K. Rowling |
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54e4536
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Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there."
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tonks
nymphadora-tonks
remus-lupin
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J.K. Rowling |
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e2fd23c
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Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy -- he didn't feel much like singing.
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J.K. Rowling |
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a87f96f
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There," she said softly. "Now he could be sleeping."
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dobby
luna-lovegood
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J.K. Rowling |
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fc31f43
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Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck."
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plant
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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217479e
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This is mad," said Ron. "We're the only ones left who haven't got anyone -- well, except Neville. Hey -- guess who he asked? !" " ?" said Harry, completely distracted by this startling news. "Yeah, I know!" said Ron, some of the color coming back into his face as he started to laugh. "He told me after Potions! Said she's always been really nice, helping him out with work and stuff -- but she told him she was already going with someone. Ha!..
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yule
hermione
ron
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J.K. Rowling |
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2e172f3
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Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!
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humor
pg-399
hp4
yule-ball
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J.K. Rowling |
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da3a0c2
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Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!
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inspirational
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J.K. Rowling |
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15483ce
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Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. "How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested."
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J.K. Rowling |
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9d02478
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Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back
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harry-potter
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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497c281
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Yeah," said Harry. "No more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly . . ." "And from now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell -- I'm just chucking them in the bin where they belong."
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harry-potter
funny
o-w-l-s
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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f4dbaac
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They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry. "Want to come upstairs and practice?" "No, thanks," said Harry. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it -- it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said."
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humor
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J.K. Rowling |
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1069521
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Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.
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J.K. Rowling |
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04bddce
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He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.
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J.K. Rowling |
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69982b9
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I haven't got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even," said Fred, looking over at Ron's crumpled figure. "Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . ." He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. "Well, I'll save it for parties, eh?" --
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J.K. Rowling |
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d25e583
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Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same."
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same
teach
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J.K. Rowling |
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5e35511
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The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.
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J.K. Rowling |
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5721163
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A week after Fred and George's departure, 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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humor
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J.K. Rowling |
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bb5c312
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Once again I must ask too much of you, Harry.
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J.K. Rowling |
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1285b82
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Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
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J.K. Rowling |
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cc8f60e
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Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?
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J.K. Rowling |
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89f9961
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Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they have noticed we broke into Gringotts.
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gringotts
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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3ca6a6d
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Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Who Lived." None of the Death Eaters moved. They were waiting. Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and Bellatrix was panting, and Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his-- Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child, wondering what would..
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harry-potter
the-end
voldemort
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J.K. Rowling |
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d101beb
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Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life...
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hogwarts
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J.K. Rowling |
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db0e48c
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He's gone, Harry told himself. He's gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He's gone and he's not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again.
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ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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c75c67c
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Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn't even sure why he was feeling so angry. "Don't sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn't I?" he said heatedly. "I know what went on, all right? And I didn't get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because -- because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right --..
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J.K. Rowling |
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0d2c4c6
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Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it," Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. "I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they'd use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters."
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sirius-black
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J.K. Rowling |
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5df35db
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How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
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loss
growing-up
memory
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J.K. Rowling |
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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 |
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1f241d5
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That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruffly that if was the proudest moment of his life. Aunt Petunia burst into tears and said she couldn't believe it was her Ickle Dudleykins, he looked so handsome and grown-up. Harry didn't trust himself to speak. He thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying n..
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J.K. Rowling |
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5a1da1f
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He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, ... the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world
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J.K. Rowling |
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06b99e9
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Play Quidditch at all?" "No," Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch could be. " do -- Father says it's a crime if I'm not picked to play for my House, and I must say, I agree. Know what House you'll be in yet?" "No," said Harry, feeling more stupid by the minute. "Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I'll be in Slytherin, all our family have been -- imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave..
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harry-potter
wizards
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J.K. Rowling |
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795274c
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First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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harry-potter
third-task
triwizard-tournament
sphinx
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J.K. Rowling |
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764be94
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But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.
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J.K. Rowling |
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2d68f3d
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I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?
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malfoy
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J.K. Rowling |
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c14b6f9
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Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
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J.K. Rowling |
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669db09
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There are all kinds of courage," said Dumbledore, smiling. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
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J.K. Rowling |
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6777546
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Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy -- Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!
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humor
ron
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J.K. Rowling |
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f1e1ee7
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As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
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nymphadora-tonks
remus-lupin
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J.K. Rowling |