Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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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