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“But as he sprinted toward the dais, Lupin grabbed Harry around the chest, holding him back. “There’s nothing you can do, Harry —” “Get him, save him, he’s only just gone through!” “It’s too late, Harry —” “We can still reach him —” Harry struggled hard and viciously, but Lupin would not let go. . . . “There’s nothing you can do, Harry . . . nothing. . . . He’s gone.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Remembered that I am not Dumbledore, who forgave your insolence and insubordination? You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It’s time you learned some respect!” “It’s time you earned it,” said Harry.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. .”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Laura, who had intruded into my sacred space and now made herself at home there.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice