The Quotable JKR

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7687

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Sarah Rettger <ara_kel at y...> wrote:
>  
> It doesn't surpise me that every one of these
> quotations was taken straight from the mouth of
> Professor Dumbledore.  I've always thought JKR did
> some of her best writing with him.  If it had been up
> to me, though, one more quotation would have been
> included in the friendship category: "But from that
> moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. 
> There are some things you can't share without ending
> up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot
> mountain troll is one of them."

Cool thread, Sarah!  I'm a quote fanatic myself... here's some more 
I'd have in my sig here if I didn't read this list solely on the 
web.  The first few are quotes, but the bottom two are "Three 
Musketeers" type passages about the Trio in action... as much as I 
talk ship, their friendship is what made me like the series in the 
first place:

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"No good sittin' worryin' about it," Hagrid said.  "What's comin' 
will come, and we'll meet it when it does."

--p. 719, GoF, 1st Amer. ed
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"It does not do to dwell in dreams and forget to live, remember that."
(Dumbledore)

--p. 214, SS, paperback, 34th Amer. ed
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"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared (Sirius) Black.  "DIED RATHER 
THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!"

--p. 375, PoA, 23rd Amer. ed.

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"We start by recruiting members," said Hermione happily.  "I thought 
two Sickles to join--that buys a badge--and the proceeds can fund our 
leaflet campaign.  You're treasurer, Ron--I've got you a collecting 
tin upstairs--and Harry, you're secretary, so you might want to write 
down everything I'm saying now, as a record of our first meeting."

There was a pause in which Hermione beamed at the pair of them, and 
Harry sat, torn between exasperation at Hermione and amusement at the 
look on Ron's face.

--p. 225, GoF, 1st Amer. ed. (Scholastic)

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(This one's too long for a sig... but if they cut it from the movie 
or fumble it up, I'll scream!  It's the epitome of Harry, Ron, and 
Hermione's personalities and interaction... I think it's one of my 
favorites in all of the books.  I fell out of my chair howling when I 
first read it... a snippet of this is over at Yahoo on my member 
page.)

"Stop moving!" Hermione ordered them.  "I know what this is--it's 
Devil's Snare!"

"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," 
snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling 
around his neck.

"Shut up, I'm trying to remember how to kill it!" said Hermione.

"Well, hurry up, I can't breathe!"  Harry gasped, wrestling with it 
as it curled around his chest.

"Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare... what did Professor Sprout say?--it 
likes the dark and the damp..."

"So light a fire!" Harry choked. 

"Yes--of course--but there's no wood!" Hermione cried. 

"HAVE YOU GONE MAD?" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?" 

"Oh, right!" said Hermione, and she whipped out her wand and waved 
it...

--p. 277-278, SS, paperback, 24th Amer. ed (Scholastic)

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I've got loads more, but I'll shut up before I'm kicked off 
list.  :)  Are there any more that are favorites?

--Ebony