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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
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Don't talk to me."
"Why not?"
"Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Just because itβs taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!
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Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.
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It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
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What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.
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Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.
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Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.
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Iβm never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never."
"Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.
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Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
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Constant vigilance!
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Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?
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Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore
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Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days."
"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred.
"That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"
"It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it.
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Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?
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By Gryffindor, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
Would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin
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You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
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Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
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I love magic!
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Who're you going with, then?" said Ron.
"Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment.
"What?" said Ron, taken aback. "You've already asked her?"
"Good point," said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, "Oi! Angelina!"
Angelina, who had been chatting with Alicia Spinnet near the fire, looked over at him.
"What?" She called back.
"Want to come to the ball with me?"
Angelina gave Fred a sort of appraising look.
"All right, then," she said, and she turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting with a bit of a grin on her face.
"There you go," said Fred to Harry and Ron, "piece of cake.
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I am what I am, anβ Iβm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,β my olβ dad used ter say, βthereβs some whoβll hold it against you, but theyβre not worth botherinβ with.
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I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
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I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
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I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.
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Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
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I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.
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Next time thereβs a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!
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But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
βHermione, Nevilleβs right β you are a girl. . . .β
βOh well spotted,β she said acidly.
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Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.
On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.
Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.
The pines were roaring on the height,
The wind was moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light.
The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale;
The dragon's ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.
The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.
Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!
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She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school...
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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...
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Aaah ... said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawneyβs mystical whisper, when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry...
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You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.
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Well, Iβm sure youβll find someone somewhere whoβll have you.
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Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time
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Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
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Oh, shut up Weatherby.
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He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls....
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Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore.
"I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.
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No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
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Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.
'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.
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Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
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She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
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Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
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Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
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Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.
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There you go, Harry!β Ron shouted over the noise. βYou werenβt being thick after all β you were showing moral fiber!
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No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does.
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Play to your strengths."
"I havenβt got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself.
"Excuse me," growled Moody, "youβve got strengths if I say youβve got them. Think now. What are you best at?
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Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!
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Where's the fun without a bit of risk?
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As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.
It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them.
"Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?"
"Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye!
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We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
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Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
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Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?
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Enjoying it? I donβt reckon heβd come home if Dad didnβt make him. Heβs obsessed. Just donβt get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouchβ¦as I was saying to Mr. Crouchβ¦ Mr. Crouch is of the opinionβ¦ Mr. Crouch was telling meβ¦ Theyβll be announcing their engagement any day now.
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Hello, Professor McGonagall,β said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
βWhat β what are you doing?β said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferretβs progress through the air.
βTeaching,β said Moody.
βTeach β Moody, is that a student?β shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms.
βYep,β said Moody.
βMoody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!β said Professor McGonagall weakly.
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Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!
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Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy β Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!
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The king picked up his goblet, swirling the wine inside. 'I didn't receive word that your legion was here.'
"They're not."
Chaol braced for the execution order, praying he wouldn't be the one to do it. The king said, "I told you to bring them, General."
"Here, I was thinking you wanted the plesure of my company.
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What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?β
βOh no, Ron,β came Fredβs voice, very sarcastically. βNo, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.
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Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry.
"How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?"
"Lasso one?" Ron suggested.
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As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.
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Accio Firebolt!
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I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.
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Whatβs that?β said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding.
βBouillabaisse,β said Hermione.
βBless you,β said Ron.
βItβs French,β said Hermione.
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You know your mother, Malfoy?β said Harry βThat expression sheβs got, like sheβs got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?
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Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever theyβve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
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Hagrid, look what Iβve got for relatives!β Harry said furiously. βLook at the Dursleys!β
βAn excellent point,β said Professor Dumbledore. βMy own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, Iβm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .
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Youβre JOKING!β said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since Moodyβs arrival suddenly broke. Nearly everyone laughed, and Dumbledore chuckled appreciatively.
βI am not joking, Mr. Weasley,β he said, βthough now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar...β
Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly.
βEr β but maybe this is not the time... no...β said Dumbledore.
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And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!
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Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again.
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You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione.
"Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.
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As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
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Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.
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You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
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Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.
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At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.
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Course Dumbledore trusts you,β growled Moody. βHeβs a trusting man, isnβt he? Believes in second chances. But me β I say there are spots that donβt come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, dβyou know what I mean?
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Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
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Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it.
"Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes."
Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.
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I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and the end of end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasleyβs 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 Dursleysβ address in minute writing.
βShe did put enough stamps on, then,β said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasleyβs was a mistake anyone could make.
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Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
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He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.
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This is mad,β said Ron. βWeβre the only ones left who havenβt got anyone β well, except Neville. Hey β guess who he asked? Hermione!β
βWhat?β said Harry, completely distracted by this startling news.
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He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.
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We should get a move on you know... ask someone. He's right. We don't want to end up with a pair of trolls."
Hermione let out a sputter of indignation. "A pair of... what excuse me?"
"Well - you know," said Ron shrugging. "I'd rather go alone than with - with Eloise Midgen, say."
"Her acne's loads better lately - and she's really nice."
"Her nose's off-centre," said Ron.
"Oh I see," Hermione said bristling. "So basically you're going to take the best-looking girl who'll have you even if she's completely horrible?"
"Er - yeah that sounds about right." said Ron.
"I'm going to bed," Hermione snapped and she swept off toward the girls' staircase without another word.
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