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He hurried to his car and set off for home, hoping that he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.
~~~Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things - terrible, yes, but great."
~~~Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."
~~~Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it...."
~~~Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"...the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
~~~Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"Dear me, what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"
~~~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"So Dobby stopped us getting on the train and broke your arm..." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you."
~~~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"Am I a professor? Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?"
~~~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?"
~~~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~~~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"We don't send people to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts!"
~~~Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you die, you need not hand it in."
~~~Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"Ah, well, people can be a bit stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.
~~~Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"Godfather?" sputtered Uncle Vernon. "You haven't got a godfather!"
"Yes, I have," said Harry brightly. "He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...."
~~~Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive," said Malfoy sarcastically. "Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?"
~~~Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
~~~Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"There you go, Harry!" Ron shouted over the noise. "You weren't being thick after all - you were showing moral fiber!"
~~~Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"If you want to knmow what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
~~~Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
He wanted to touch it, to find out what it felt like, but nearly four years' experience of the magical world told him that sticking his hand into a bowl full of some unknown substance was a very stupid thing to do.
~~~Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"Listening to the news! Again?"
"Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging war on the house, which was putting up a very good fight....
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
And then, to see them surrounded by all those other happy faces...Benjy Fenwick, who had been found in bits, and Gideon Prewett, who had died like a hero, and the Longbottoms, who had been tortured into madness...all waving happily out of the photograph forevermore, not know that they were doomed.... Well, Moody might find that interesting...he, Harry, found it disturbing....
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"She's an awful woman," said Hermione in a small voice. "Awful. You know, I was just saying to Ron when you came in...we've got to do something about her."
"I suggested poison," said Ron grimly.
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"You'd think a bit of kissing would cheer her up," said Ron, grinning.
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter...or at least, most minds are...."
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"Well - it's just that you seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to - what's the phrase? 'Come quietly.' I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."
~~~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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