Harry Potter: The Complete Collection (1-7)

because Fred Weasley could not be dead,

‘No Unforgivable Curses from you, Potter!’ he

‘After all this time?’ ‘Always,’ said Snape.

You don’t learn from your mistakes, Riddle, do you?’ ‘You dare –’ ‘Yes, I dare,’ said Harry, ‘I know things you don’t know, Tom Riddle.

‘Doesn’t matter. They don’t want to spill too much pure blood, so they’ll torture us a bit if we’re mouthy but they won’t actually kill us.’

‘People expect you to have cooler friends than us,’ said Luna, once again displaying her knack for embarrassing honesty.

That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.

didn’t their stupidity and carelessness prove how unwise it was, ever, to trust?

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew – and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents – that t