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How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —” “No, it isn’t,” said Hermione. “And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
Joanne Rowling
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It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Joanne Rowling
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But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
Joanne Rowling
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Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.
Joanne Rowling
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For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.
Joanne Rowling
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
Joanne Rowling
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Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.
Joanne Rowling
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
Joanne Rowling
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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!
Joanne Rowling
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Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Death comes for us all in the end.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’ at Defense Against the Dark Arts.” He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. “You’re actually disappointed, aren’t you?
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se nombra.
Joanne Rowling
