I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
J. K. RowlingEverybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
J. K. RowlingFor a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.
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