OOP:Favorite Lines...

[dorapye]

No: HPFGUIDX 87415

Geoff <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> Geoff:
> I think McGonagall is an absolute master at the put down, 
> especially when it comes to Dolores Umbridge...

dorapye:

Yes, I love McGonagall's rebuffs to Umbridge - hurrah for 
McGonagall! One of my favourite McGonagall lines, though, is not 
*to* Umbridge but *about* her, when she is explaining to the kids 
about their OWLs:

OotP p 625 (UK Edition):

"....'Our new - Headmistress -' Professor McGonagall  pronounced the 
word with the same look on her face that Aunt Petunia had whenever 
contemplating a bit of stubborn dirt '- has asked the Heads of 
Houses to tell their students that cheating will be punished 
severely - because, of course, your examination results will reflect 
upon the Headmistress's new regime at the school -'

Professor McGonagall gave a tiny sigh; Harry saw the nostrils of her 
sharp nose flare.

'-however, that is no reason for you not to do your very best. You 
have your own futures to think about.'"

I love that 'tiny sigh' and that purposeful 'however'. 

The line I find funniest in OotP though comes from Ernie MacMillan, 
when discussing exam revision, with Ron, of all people:

OotP p623 (Uk Edition)

"'How many hours d'you think you're doing a day?' he demanded of 
Harry and Ron as they queued  outside Herbology, a manic gleam in 
his eyes.
'I dunno,' said Ron. 'A few.'
'More or less than eight?'
'Less, I s'pose,' said Ron, looking slightly alarmed..."

And the line that makes me cry? When Harry says to Dumbledore that 
Aunt Petunia doesn't love him, and of course, this is no great earth 
shattering fact, and we've known that Harry must have known this for 
years, but still, to hear a child or young person say, so baldly, so 
irrefutably, so matter-of-factly, that their 'parent' does not love 
them...it breaks my heart.

Just my faves, anyway.
dorapye