Merlinโs beard, Harry, you made me jump,โ said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. โHow did you get out of the castle?โ โI think Filch mustโve forgotten to lock the doors,โ said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.
J. K. RowlingHe [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasleyโs letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleysโ address in minute writing. โShe did put enough stamps on, then,โ said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasleyโs was a mistake anyone could make.
J. K. RowlingHe was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godricโs Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.
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