OOP: Favorite Lines

[Melissa Worcester]

No: HPFGUIDX 65373

I finally finished the book last night. While I was reading I kept a paper with the book and jotted down my favorite quotes as I went. I covered 3 sides of notebook pages with quotes, but I'll try to only share the best ones here.

Definite spoilers.

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"Ministry of Magic?" bellowed Uncle Vernon. "People like you in government? Oh, this explains everything, everything, no wonder the country's going to the dogs . . . ."

[I got the impression that Vernon knows a lot less about the wizarding world than Petunia, that she hasn't shared whatever knowledge she has with him. I can't wait to find out more about what she knows, etc.]

"Very clean, aren't they, these Muggles?" said the witch called Tonks.
[and a few min. later as they went upstairs]
"Funny place," she said, "it's a bit *too* clean, d'you know what I mean? Bit unnatural. Oh, this is better," she added, as they entered Harry's bedroom. . . .

Ron: "You two just Apparated on my knees!"
One of the Twins: "Yeah, well, it's harder in the dark."

"Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."
"You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?"

[I really enjoyed the development of Ginny's character, or rather how it was revealed in this book. I think she'll make a really good match for Harry.]

"She's been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren't looking," said Hermione from behind her tottering pile of Ancient Rune books.

Ron: "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode!"

Harry: "That's what they should teach us here . . . how girls' brains work . . . it'd be more useful than Divination anyway. . . ."

"You can't tell me you've stopped having funny dreams," Hermione said now, "because Ron told me last night you were muttering in your sleep again. . . "
Harry threw Ron a furious look. Ron had the grace to look ashamed of himself.

He [Harry] also suspected that part of his mind -- the part that often spoke in Hermione's voice -- now felt guilty on the occasions it strayed down that corridor ending in the black door, and sought to wake him before he could reach journey's end.

There were still deep welts on his [Ron's] forearms where the brains tentacles had wrapped around him. According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else, though since she has started applying copious amounts of Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction, there seemed to be some improvement.

He was -- he has always been -- a marked man. It was just that he had never really understood what that meant . . . .
[This reminded me of something Hagrid said near the beginning of book 1: "Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard."]

"I was afraid of death," said Nick. "I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn't to have. . . . Well, that is neither here nor there. . . . In fact, *I* am neither here nor there. . . ."

[and this one, more than anything else in the book, made me long for book 6:]
Harry imagined sitting in his bedroom in Privit Drive in six weeks' time, waiting for his O.W.L. results.

Melissa

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