Where are you heading, if youโve got the choice?โ James lifted an invisible sword. โโGryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!โ Like my dad.โ Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. โGot a problem with that?โ โNo,โ said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. โIf youโd rather be brawny than brainy โโ โWhereโre you hoping to go, seeing as youโre neither?โ interjected Sirius.
J. K. RowlingHarry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death Eaterโs hood, and last heard that manโs voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. He could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater.
J. K. RowlingAm I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.
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