Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.? And what will you give me in return, Severus?? In – in return? Anything.
Why, dear boy, we don’t send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.
The only way out is through.
Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.
Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?
Well, I can certainly see why we’re trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn’t want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
What do I care how ’e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!
I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.
I tell you, that dragon’s the most horrible animal I’ve ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you’d think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
And it’s Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle – Flint alongside her – poke him in the eye, Angelina – it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
Oh, it can’t be a reference to the fact Harry’s a great Seeker, that’s way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.