nullius in verba

More shameless Harry Potter fanart for Toronto Fanexpo this year! I was painting this… and realized both these characters are dead :(

Prints will be available on Etsy soon for those interested!

Initial scribble:

ARIES: “My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”

TAURUS: “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.”

GEMINI: “My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”  

CANCER: “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”  LEO: “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” 

VIRGO: “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”  

LIBRA: “Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”  

SCORPIO: “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

SAGITTARIUS: “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice.”

CAPRICORN: “I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,“ said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.” 

AQUARIUS: “We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”