If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.' 'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club.

And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

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