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Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends … friends … friends …

fall rewatch: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 (2010)

And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been.

fall rewatch: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE (2009)

You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must cofess…that I rather thought…you had enough reponsibility to be going on with.“ Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore’s face into his long silver beard.

fall rewatch: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007)

“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.”

fall rewatch: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005)

fall rewatch: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 2 (2011)