Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling

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Important Quotations Explained

1. “I’d never have believed this. . . . The man who taught me to fight dementors—a coward.”


2. “Wands only choose witches or wizards. You are not a witch. I have your responses to the questionnaire that was sent to you here—”


3. “We thought you knew what you were doing! . . . We thought Dumbledore had told you what to do, we thought you had a real plan!”


4. But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents’ moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing.


5. “But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?”
   “For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!
From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe: She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window.


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