The Dark Arts• Quote
“The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.”… Read MoreA Dark Twin• Quote
An Obscurus grows in the absence of love as a dark twin, an only friend. Read MoreAnyone We Know Dead?• Quote
“Anyone we know dead?” asked Ron in a determinedly casual voice; he posed the same question every time Hermione opened her paper. Read MoreThe Dead We Have Loved• Quote
“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?”… Read MoreDeath as Adventure• Quote
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”… Read MoreDeath and Darkness• Quote
“There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look… Read MoreNo decent wizard• Quote
“There are powers Dumbledore doesn’t … powers no decent wizard …”… Read MoreDeep, Impenetrable Magic• Quote
“This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry. But trust me… the time may come when you will be very glad you saved Pettigrew’s life.”… Read MoreDementors of reality• Quote
And the child that has been protected from the Dementors in fiction, I would argue, is much more likely to fall prey to them later in life in reality. Read MoreWill we die?• Quote
“Will we die, just a little?”… Read MoreThen You Should Have Died• Quote
“THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!” roared Black. “DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”… Read MoreDifferences of Habit and Language• Quote
“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”… Read MoreDifficult Emotional Issues• Quote
How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library. Read MoreDisapproval of Cowards is Praise• Quote
“The disapproval of cowards is praise to the brave. Your name will be written in glory when wizards rule the world.” (CG57)… Read MoreDisobliging Habit Of Time• Quote
It was a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. Read MoreDobby's Creative Attempts To Save Harry• Quote
“So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm….” He shook his head. “You know what, Harry? If he doesn’t stop trying to save your life he’s going to kill you.”… Read MoreDoctors or Healers?• Quote
“Doctors?” said Ron, looking startled. “Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? Nah, they’re Healers.”… Read MoreA dose of pain• Quote
“… Perhaps another little dose of pain?”… Read MoreWhen In Doubt...• Quote
“When in doubt, go to the library.”… Read MoreAbout Draco the refined bully• Quote
We’ve all met him [Draco]. He is the bully of the most refined type … he’s a snob. He’s a bigot and he’s a bully, and as I say, in the most refined sense, he knows exactly what will hurt people and the scary thing is, but the predictable thing is… Read MoreDumbledore and bumblebees• Quote
Some of [the names] are invented. Voldemort is an invented name. Malfoy is an invented name. Quiddich is invented. But I also collect them from all kinds of places, maps, street names, names of people I meet, old books on saints. Mrs. Norris, people will recognize comes from Jane Austen. Dumbledore… Read MoreDumbledore And Chocolate Frog Cards• Quote
“But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog cards,” said Bill, grinning. Read MoreYet Dumbledore goes to the hilltop• Quote
At the moment when he answers Snape’s call, he cannot know that Snape isn’t going to try and kill him. He can’t know that Snape will have the moral or physical courage to change course, let alone help defeat Voldemort. Yet still, Dumbledore goes to the hilltop. — J.K. Read MoreDumbledore Would Have Said That It Was Love• Quote
Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out… though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love…. Read MoreDumbledore's Got Style• Quote
“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts… but you cannot deny he’s got style….”… Read MoreIt Does Not Do To Dwell On Dreams• Quote
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”… Read More
The Dark Arts
• Quote
“The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.”… Read More
A Dark Twin
• Quote
An Obscurus grows in the absence of love as a dark twin, an only friend. Read More
Anyone We Know Dead?
• Quote
“Anyone we know dead?” asked Ron in a determinedly casual voice; he posed the same question every time Hermione opened her paper. Read More
The Dead We Have Loved
• Quote
“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?”… Read More
Death as Adventure
• Quote
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”… Read More
Death and Darkness
• Quote
“There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look… Read More
Deep, Impenetrable Magic
• Quote
“This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry. But trust me… the time may come when you will be very glad you saved Pettigrew’s life.”… Read More
Will we die?
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“Will we die, just a little?”… Read More
Then You Should Have Died
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“THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!” roared Black. “DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”… Read More
Differences of Habit and Language
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“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”… Read More
Difficult Emotional Issues
• Quote
How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library. Read More
Disapproval of Cowards is Praise
• Quote
“The disapproval of cowards is praise to the brave. Your name will be written in glory when wizards rule the world.” (CG57)… Read More
Disobliging Habit Of Time
• Quote
It was a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. Read More
Dobby's Creative Attempts To Save Harry
• Quote
“So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm….” He shook his head. “You know what, Harry? If he doesn’t stop trying to save your life he’s going to kill you.”… Read More
Doctors or Healers?
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“Doctors?” said Ron, looking startled. “Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? Nah, they’re Healers.”… Read More
A dose of pain
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“… Perhaps another little dose of pain?”… Read More
When In Doubt...
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“When in doubt, go to the library.”… Read More
About Draco the refined bully
• Quote
We’ve all met him [Draco]. He is the bully of the most refined type … he’s a snob. He’s a bigot and he’s a bully, and as I say, in the most refined sense, he knows exactly what will hurt people and the scary thing is, but the predictable thing is… Read More
Dumbledore And Chocolate Frog Cards
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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,” said Bill, grinning. Read More
Dumbledore Would Have Said That It Was Love
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Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out… though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love…. Read More
Dumbledore's Got Style
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“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts… but you cannot deny he’s got style….”… Read More
It Does Not Do To Dwell On Dreams
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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”… Read More