Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.
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 closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.
Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ββ¦then I declare you bonded for life.
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
I wish...I wish I were dead...β βAnd what use would that be to anyone?
And Death spoke to them βββ βSorry,β interjected Harry, βbut Death spoke to them?β βItβs a fairy tale, Harry!β βRight, sorry. Go on.
And anyway, itβs not as though Iβll never see Mum again, is it?
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.
Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'
Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you try to tell the Moon it's made of cheese you can argue for days and it won't change the Moon! What you're talking about is rationalization, like starting with a sheet of paper, moving straight down to the bottom line, using ink to write 'and therefore, the Moon is made of cheese', and then moving back up to write all sorts of clever arguments above. But either the Moon is made of cheese or it isn't. The moment you wrote the bottom line, it was already true or already false. Whether or not the whole sheet of paper ends up with the right conclusion or the wrong conclusion is fixed the instant you write down the bottom line.
I only want power so I can get books.
Look,' he says, 'have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can't actually start it?' 'Oh totally. All the time - if I had a grain of self-restraint I never would've been able to read the last Harry Potter book. The anticipation was painful. You know like what if it does live up to the last ones? What if it's not what I hope it'll be?
The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'
I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Harry Potter is awesome.
