The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score,โ Harry recited. โSo โ thatโs sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isnโt it?โ โWhatโs basketball?โ said Wood curiously. โNever mind,โ said Harry quickly.
J. K. RowlingOr yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
J. K. RowlingGinny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.
J. K. RowlingMany prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
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