Joanne Rowling Quotes
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They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small!" said Hagrid. "Small?" said Hermione. "Small?" "Hermione, I couldn't leave him," said Hagrid, tears now trickling down his bruised face into his beard. "See -- he's my brother!
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He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.
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Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
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I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.
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Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
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Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.
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When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.
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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.
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We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet.
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Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.
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I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?
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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.