Hermione had just come in, wearing her dressing gown and carrying Crookshanks, who was looking very grumpy, with a string of tinsel tied around his neck.“Don’t bring him in here!” said Ron, hurriedly snatching Scabbers from the depths of his bed and stowing him in his pajama pocket.But Hermione wasn’t listening. She dropped Crookshanks onto […]
Death Fic At last, exhausted, Harry climbed into bed, twitched the hangings of his four-poster shut to block out a ray of moonlight, lay back, and felt himself almost instantly drifting off to sleep. . . .He had a very strange dream. He was walking through a forest, his Firebolt over his shoulder, following something […]
Madam Pomfrey now came walking briskly up the dark ward to Harry’s bed. He turned to look at her. She was carrying the largest block of chocolate he had ever seen in his life. It looked like a small boulder.“Ah, you’re awake!” she said briskly. She placed the chocolate on Harry’s bedside table and began […]
“Which of you can tell me how we distinguish between the werewolf and the true wolf?” said Snape. Everyone sat in motionless silence; everyone except Hermione, whose hand, as it so often did, had shot straight into the air.“Anyone?” Snape said, ignoring Hermione. His twisted smile was back. “Are you telling me that Professor Lupin […]
Hagrid turned around and hurried back toward his cabin, his face buried in his handkerchief. “Look at him blubber!” Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had been standing just inside the castle doors, listening.“Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?” said Malfoy. “And he’s supposed to be our teacher!”Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward […]
“IT WASN’T A NIGHTMARE!” Ron yelled. “PROFESSOR, I WOKE UP, AND SIRIUS BLACK WAS STANDING OVER ME, HOLDING A KNIFE!”Professor McGonagall stared at him. “Don’t be ridiculous, Weasley, how could he possibly have gotten through the portrait hole?”“Ask him!” said Ron, pointing a shaking finger at the back of Sir Cadogan’s picture. “Ask him if […]
He squeezed Buckbeak’s sides with his heels. Harry and Hermione jumped back as the enormous wings rose once more. . . . The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. […]
“I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” Hamlet, act 3 scene 4 “And thirdly,” said Uncle Vernon, his mean little eyes now slits in his great purple face, “we’ve told Marge you attend St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.”“What?” Harry yelled.“And you’ll be sticking to that […]
but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two’d value yer friend more’n broomsticks or rats. Tha’s all.” Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (p. 111). Pottermore Publishing. Kindle Edition. Harry put his hand on Ron’s arm to keep him silent, “Hagrid? How many things do you treasure in this hut. Don’t […]
HarryMadam PomphreySeverus Snape BAMF Pomphrey Malingering: to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) Malfoy’s Malingering “There’s nothing wrong with your arm,” he hissed at Malfoy.Malfoy smirked across the table.“Weasley, you heard Professor Snape; cut up these roots.”Ron seized his knife, pulled Malfoy’s roots toward him, and began to chop […]
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