[HPforGrownups] Re: What is your all-time favorite line(s) from the book?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aquariajade <toberead at e...>" 
<toberead at e...> wrote:
> My favorite line from the books is:
> 
> "I like a healthy breeze around my privates, thanks." - GoF
> 
> I can not get past this scene without laughing.
> 
> What are your favorites?

       Snape's sallow skin had gone the color of sour milk.
       "And did the Headmaster tell you the circumstances in which your 
father saved my life?" he whispered.  "Or did he consider the details too 
unpleasant for precious Potter's delicate ears?"
       Harry bit his lip.  He didn't know what had happened and didn't want 
to admit it - but Snape seemed to have guessed the truth.
       "I would hate for you to run away with a false idea of your father, 
Potter," he said, a terrible grin twisting his face.  "Have you been 
imagining some act of glorious heroism?  Then let me correct you - your 
saintly father and his friends played a highly amusing joke on me that would 
have resulted in my death if your father hadn't got cold feet at the last 
moment.  There was nothing brave about what he did.  He was saving his own 
skin as much as mine.  Had their joke succeeded, he would have been expelled 
from Hogwarts." (PoA, 285 - US)

Ah!  Snape at his best: wicked and cruel!  *sigh* I love him!  Can you even 
imagine how excited Snape must have been to finally be able to tell Harry 
that?

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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