We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reasonโ" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usualโ" "โdetentionโ" "โdisembowelmentโ
J. K. RowlingIt is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J. K. RowlingSuch loyalty is admirable, of course,โ said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, โbut Dumbledore is gone, Harry. Heโs gone.โ โHe will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,โ said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.
J. K. RowlingHe might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.
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