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She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderl...

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Jasper FfordeOne of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I ...

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If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...

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Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo ...

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In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...

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My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

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These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that histo...

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I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

They've given Harry the attributes of pistachio nuts and crack cocaine without the health risks (ope...

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David Mitchell (author)Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does ...

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I only want power so I can get books.

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This i...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Ending up with that gigantic outsized brain must have taken some sort of runaway evolutionary proces...

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Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back ove...

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The Headmaster told Professor Flitwick that this was, indeed, a secret and delicate matter of which ...

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Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about eve...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark sid...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way,...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can'...

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Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophist...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Pr...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J...

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How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps a...

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You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak

What's life without a little risk?-Sirius Black

Professor Moody!" said a shocked voice.Professor McGonagall was coming down the marble staircase wit...

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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ev...

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No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So wh...

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You might belong in Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart. Their daring nerve and chivalry set G...

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Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry ha...

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Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it," Mr. Weasley said i...

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Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig...

Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone.He will only be gone from the school when none here or loyal to...

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Why would anyone bother making door-keys shrink?’ said George.‘Just Muggle-baiting,’ sighed Mr Weasl...

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The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.' - Sirius Black

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?''Yes,' said Harry.'You called her a liar?''Yes.''...

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications ...

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If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

Those who want power do not deserve it.And those who deserve power do not want it.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you hom...

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I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter

But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can'...

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What is life without a little risk?" -Sirius Black

We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon....

In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again...

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An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of...

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Harry: "Have you…" he began. "I mean, who … has anyone you known ever died?" "Yes," said Luna simply...

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Harry Potter set Dobby free!" "Least I could do, Dobby", said Harry, grinning. "Just promise never t...

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Yes,' said Dumbledore. 'He'll have that scar for ever.''Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledo...

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Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

I don't care if you fall off your broom as long as you catch the Snitch first.

You don't seem to need many qualifications to liaise with Muggles; all they want is an OWL in Muggle...

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We don't need magic to change the world.

Hagrid!" Harry called, holding on to the bike for dear life. "Hagrid—Accio Hagrid!

His memory's gone", said Ron. "The Memory Charm backfired. Hit him instead of us. Hasn't got a clue ...

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If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU!

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room."Merlin's pants?" repeated ...

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You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.

Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you" - said Dumbledore

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.

Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everythi...

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My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the w...

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Harry moved toward the fire, butjust as he reached the edge of the hearth, Mr. Weasley put out ahand...

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The ones that love us never really leave us.

I don't want to stay here overnight,' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. '...

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I've got two neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, "tha...

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In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind ba...

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You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy... I don't think I've heard you joke since you ...

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Harry dreamed he was back in the DA room. Cho was accusing him of luring her there under false prete...

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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living (...).

By attempting to kill you, Voldemort himself singled out the remarkable person who sits here in fron...

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The plan, which I really hope I fulfilled, is that the reader, like Harry, would gradually discover ...

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Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten hi...

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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...

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We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nur...

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Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That w...

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You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

Okay," said Harry, staring at it, "Pear Drop. Er – Licorice Wand. Fizzing Whizbee. Drooble's Best Bl...

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Why spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?

Tell Albus - tell Albus Severus - I'm proud he carries my name.

They think I'm a waste of space, actually, but I'm used to—""I don't think you're a waste of space."...

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Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly...

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A thousand years or more ago,When I was newly sewn,There lived four wizards of renown,Whose name are...

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Spiders... the spiders... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance!

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.