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Merlin's beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.
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According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher."
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Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there -- the walls and the chairs and the children's pictures on the walls -- meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.
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mourn
lost
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J.K. Rowling |
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afa9930
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Hey, Mr English guy! I think your egg is hatching. - Jacob Kowalski
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Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.
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J.K. Rowling |
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Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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What exactly are you so happy about?' Harry asked her. 'Oh Harry, don't you see?' Hermione breathed. 'If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!
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quibbler
streisand-effect
hermione
umbridge
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It's alright" said a dreamy voice from beside Harry as Ron vanished into the coach's dark interior. "You're not going mad or anything. I can see them too." "Can you?" said Harry desperately, turning to Luna. He could see the bat-winged horses reflected in her wide, silvery eyes. "Oh yes," said Luna, "I've been able to see them since my first year here. They've always pulled the carriages. Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am." Smiling f..
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harry-potter
jk-rowling
magical
luna-lovegood
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Well ... when we were in our first year, Harry -- young, carefree, and innocent --" Harry snorted. He doubted whether Fred and George had ever been innocent. "-- well, more innocent than we are now -- we got into a spot of bother with Filch." "We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason --" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual --" "-- detention --" "-- disembowelment --" "--..
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. "I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?" "Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical whispe..
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humor
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I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather -- just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother -- why, its brother gave you that scar.
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J.K. Rowling |
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And what in the name of Merlin's most baggy Y Fronts was that about?
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Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
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contentment
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You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.
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I just wondered where you --" Ron broke off, shrugging. "Nothing. I'm going back to bed." "Just thought you'd come nosing around, did you?" Harry shouted. He knew that Ron had no idea what he'd walked in on, knew he hadn't done it on purpose, but he didn't care -- at this moment he hated everything about Ron, right down to the several inches of bare ankle showing beneath his pajama trousers."
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goblet
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a65553b
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He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.
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J.K. Rowling |
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Worst that can happen is Hagrid'll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.
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Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were?"
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hagrid
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Oh, he'll , I'm sure. . . . The usual empty words, the usual slithering out of action . . . oh, on the Dark Lord's orders, of course!
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severus-snape
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And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.
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imagination
privilege
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One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch ..
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humanity
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misattributed-plutarch
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said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster."
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J.K. Rowling |
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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
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truth
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The kitchen door opened and the entire Weasley family, plus Hermione, came inside, all looking very happy, with Mr Weasley walking proudly in their midst dressed in a pair of striped pyjamas covered by a mackintosh. "Cured!" he announced brightly to the kitchen at large. "Completely cured!" He and all the other Weasleys froze on the threshold, gazing at the scene in front of them, which was also suspended in mid-action, both Sirius and Snap..
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Do you mean to tell me', he growled a the Dursleys, 'that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin' abou' - about ANYTHING?' Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks were'nt bad. 'I know some things,' he said. ' I can, you know, do maths and stuff.' But Hagrid simply waved his hand and said, 'About our world, I mean. Your world. My world. Yer' parents world.' 'What world?' Hagrid looked at though he..
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harry-potter
hagrid
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He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.
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Yes, alive," said Fudge. "That is -- I don't know -- is a man alive if he can't be killed? I don't really understand it, and Dumbledore won't explain properly -- but anyway, he's certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he's alive."
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death
prime-minister
fudge
walking
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9eaf422
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Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.
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Oh, don't lie, Harry," she said impatiently. "Ron and Ginny say you've been hiding from everyone since you got back from St. Mungo's." "They do, do they?" said Harry, glaring at Ron and Ginny. Ron looked down at his feet but Ginny seemed quite unabashed. "Well, you have!" she said. "And you won't look at any of us!" "It's you lot who won't look at me!" said Harry angrily. "Maybe you're taking it in turns to look and keep missing each other,..
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Wotcher, Harry!
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I'll understand, of course, if you want to stay with your aunt and uncle,' said Sirius. 'But...well...think about it. Once my name's cleared...if you wanted a...a different home...' Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Harry's stomach. 'What - live with you?' he said, accidentally cracking his head on a bit of rock protruding from the ceiling. 'Leave the Dursleys?' 'Of course. I thought you wouldn't want to' said Sirius quickly. ..
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sirius
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Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.
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He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.
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Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?" "What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you."
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history
hogwarts
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52f82ba
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Well, that was a bit stupid of you," said Ginny angrily, "seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels." Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he turned on the spot to face her. "I forgot," he said. "Lucky you," said Ginny coolly. "I'm sorry," Harry said, and he meant it."
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There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
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OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!" Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing."
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a50bd09
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In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. "The moment they start trying to move into each other's pots, we'll know they're fully mature," she told Harry."
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J.K. Rowling |
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Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter's really putting it through its paces now, see it turn -- Chang's Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt's precision-balance is really noticeable in these long --" "JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!"
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Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.
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Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat."
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La vigilia di Natale, Harry ando a letto pregustando le leccornie e i divertimenti dell'indomani, ma senza aspettarsi nessun regalo. Ma al suo risveglio, il mattino seguente di buon'ora, la prima cosa che vide ai piedi del suo letto fu un un mucchio di pacchetti. "Buon natale" gli fece Ron ancora assonnato, mentre Harry si buttava giu dal letto e si infilava la vestaglia. "Anche a te" gli rispose "Ma... Hai visto che roba? Ho ricevuto dei r..
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Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?"
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Some of the books the Ministry's confiscated -- Dad's told me -- there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone who read spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could ! You just had to wander around with your nose in it, trying to do everything one-handed. And --" "All right, I've got the point," said Harry."
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