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"Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the door to the ramparts burst open once more and there stood Snape, his wand clutched in his hand as his black eyes swept the scene, from Dumbledore slumped against the wall, to the four Death Eaters, including the enraged werewolf, and Malfoy."We've got a problem, Snape," said the lumpy Amycus, whose eyes and wand were fixed alike upon Dumbledore, "the boy doesn't seem able -"But somebody else had spoken Snape's name, quite softly."Severus ..."The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading. Snape said nothing, but walked forwards and pushed Malfoy roughly out of the way. The three Death Eaters fell back without a word. Even the werewolf seemed cowed. Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face."Severus ... please ..."Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. "Avada Kedavra!"

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..."I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...”“Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?"

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop''How did you...''Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly..."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?"

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable."Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"An Unbreakable Vow" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have... Are you sure"Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean"Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..."I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!"

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter"Yes," said Harry stiffly."Yes, sir."There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!”“Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!”“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Don't count your owls before they are delivered."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?"

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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