The Gurdyroot

Emma Watson - age 11 and age 23

It was true that Harry wasn’t going back to Privet Drive for Christmas. Professor McGonagall had come around the week before, making a list of students who would be staying for the holidays, and Harry had signed up at once. He didn’t feel sorry for himself at all; this would probably be the best Christmas he’d ever had.

“I’m the only one like me.” - Jacob Kowalski

A mischievous, yet adorable creature that look like a cross between a mole and a duck-billed platypus who like to steal shiny things. These animals have a magical pouch that allows them to store their treasures. 

“Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.”

We live in the shadows for too long.

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone - Chapter Twelve: The Mirror of Erised   “The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?” Harry thought. Then he said slowly, “It shows us what we want … whatever we want …” “Yes and no,” said Dumbledore quietly. “It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. You, who have never known your family, see them standing around you. Ronald Weasley, who has always been overshadowed by his brothers, sees himself standing alone, the best of all of them. However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.”

You’re in for a rough night, Potter. Regrowing bones is a nasty business.

the golden trio // harry potter

James Potter [right before crashing his broom into a tree] (via incorrectmarauderquotes)

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

SLYTHERIN: “The mistake you make, don’t you see, is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself.” -George Orwell (Keep the Aspidistra Flying)

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.