Sometimes you’ve got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you’ve got to think about the greater good!
If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of Voldemort.
Mr. H. Potter The Cupboard under the Stairs 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging Surrey.
Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief.
I don’t mean to be rude – ” he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. “ – yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often,” Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely. “Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. Ah, and this must be Petunia.
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.
I would trust Hagrid with my life,” said Dumbledore.
Ah,” said Dumbledore gently, “yes. Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.
There was courage in no disguising the animal you happened to be.
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 whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.
That’s not the song it sang when it Sorted us,” said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. “Sings a different one every year,” said Ron. “It’s got to be a pretty boring life, hasn’t it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one.
Ron’s voice now joined the others’. “What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.
If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clock on Sunday. If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we’ll come and get you at five o’clock on Sunday anyway.
Thought I’d send this with Pig anyway. Harry stared at the word “Pig,” then looked up at the tiny owl now zooming around the light fixture on the ceiling. He had never seen anything that looked less like a pig. Maybe he couldn’t read Ron’s writing.
I never know,” Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, “what’s the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?” “Stalagmite’s got an ‘m’ in it,” said Hagrid. “An’ don’ ask me questions just now, I think I’m gonna be sick.
I didn’t think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.
For one brief, the great black dog reared onto its hind legs and placed its front paws on Harry’s shoulders, but Mrs. Weasley shoved Harry away toward the train door hissing, “For heaven’s sake act more like a dog, Sirius!
Albus Dumbledore didn’t seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.
Snape made them all nervous, breathing down their necks while they tried to remember how to make a Forgetfulness potion.
Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.