"I'd do your fly by hand, though," Ron advised Harry, sniggering when Harry immediately checked it. "Here's your present. Unwrap it up here, it's not for my mother's eyes."
"A book?" said Harry as he took the rectangular parcel. "Bit of a departure from tradition, isn't it?"
"This isn't your average book," said Ron. "It's pure gold: Twelve Fail-Safe ( Read more... )

"'It was stupid, thinking it was him,' he muttered. 'I mean, I knew he was dead.'
'You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that ( Read more... )

"'Sir, there are some things I'd like to know, if you can tell me... things I want to know the truth about ( Read more... )

"according to madam pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else..."

-- j.k. rowling, harry potter and the order of the phoenix

"You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even though he's been bitten! She doesn't care ( Read more... )

"And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ( Read more... )

"The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom...I wish I could..."

-- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

"'Every guest in this Hall,' said Dumbledore, and his eyes lingered upon the Durmstrang students, 'will be welcomed back here at any time, should they wish to come. I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord ( Read more... )

♥"The Sorting Hat could see Slytherin's power in me, and it ( Read more... )

♥Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel - Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig ( Read more... )