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Snape looked back at Harry, who stared at him, frantic to communicate without words. Voldemort’s got Sirius in the Department of Mysteries, he thought desperately. Voldemorts got Sirius …

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            You’re more like them then you know, Harry.                                          In time you’ll come to see just how much.”

‘What d'you mean?’ ‘You’ve never been on the receving end of one of her b a t - b o g e y h e x e s, have you?’

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His hand was warm and callused, and his touch made her shiver. His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything that Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. “Marry me,” he said. “Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.”

“THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!”

“The Yule Ball is of course a chance for us all to — er — let our hair down.”

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“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song…”

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, ‘It unscrews the other way.’