Itโs so difficult to describe [depression] to someone whoโs never been there, because itโs not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But itโs that cold absence of feeling โ that really hollowed-out feeling.
J. K. RowlingGringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide โ except perhaps Hogwarts.
J. K. RowlingMy word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. 'If you insist.
J. K. RowlingHarry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death Eaterโs hood, and last heard that manโs voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. He could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater.
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