“But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents' moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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