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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into t...more

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Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrain from saying. Which, given everythin...more

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Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.

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Lily’s smile was widest of all. She pushed her long hair back as she drew close to him, and her green eyes, so like his, searched his face hungrily, a...more

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By attempting to kill you, Voldemort himself singled out the remarkable person who sits here in front of me, and gave him the tools for the job! It is...more

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Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?

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The Death Eaters were waiting for us,” Harry told her. “We were surrounded the moment we took off — they knew it was tonight — I don’t know what happe...more

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He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's f...more

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So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing...more

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No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.

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Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

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Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears.‘…then I declare you bonded for life.

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She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He close...more

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There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the m...more

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And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and chil...more