“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
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HARRY POTTER: E L ORDINE DELLA FENICE
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Joanne K. Rowling
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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“Would you like a cough drop Dolores?”
“Accio Brain!”
“Give her hell from us, Peeves.”
“You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!”
“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...”
“But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help hi...”
“But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.”
“You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Thr...”
“Time is Galleons, little brother.”
“It unscrews the other way.”
“By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.”
“The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...”
“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
“My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.”
“And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?”
“You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.”