Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
J. K. RowlingWell โ I was lucky once, wasn't I?โ said Harry, pointing at his scar. โI might get lucky again.
J. K. RowlingWhen the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyoneโs got? Of course he isnโt. . . . Itโll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.
J. K. RowlingI thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
J. K. RowlingI think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
J. K. RowlingWhy was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.
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