Джоан Роулинг — HARRY POTTER and the Order of the Phoenix

Гарри Поттер — 5

  “The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. ...

&  'Listening to the news,' said Harry in a resigned voice.
    His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
    'Listening to the news! Again?
    'Well, it changes every day, you see,' said Harry.

&  'We're not stupid, you know,' said Uncle Vernon.
    ' Well, that's news to me,' said Harry...

&  'How do you remember stuff like that?' asked Ron, looking at her in admiration.
    'I listen, Ron,' said Hermione, with a touch of asperity.
    'So do I, but I still couldn't tell you exactly what -'

&  'I think we ought to elect a leader,' said Hermione.
    'Harry's leader'.
    'Yes, but I think we ought to vote on it properly. It makes it formal and it gives him authority.'

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&  '...Just stay put while the grown-ups sort it out, Harry! We won't bother telling you anything, though, because your tiny little brain might not be able to cope with it!'
    'You know,' said Phineas Nigellus, even more loudly than Harry, 'this is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occured to you, my poor puffed-up popinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you are alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise what the Dark Lord may be planning -'
    'He is planning something to do with me, then?' said Harry swiftly.
    'Did I say that?' said Phineas Nigellus, idly examining his silk gloves. 'Now. if you will excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonising ... good-day to you.'

&  Do it today or later you'll pay!
    If you've dotted the "i"s and crossed the "t"s then you may do whatever you please!

&  'Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily — weak people, in other words — they stand no chance against his powers!'

&  'So the Daily Prophet exists to tell people what they want to hear, does it?' said Hermione scathingly.
    'The Prophet exists to sell itself, you silly girl'.

&  'Look — you upset Cho when you said you were going to meet me, so she tried to make you jealous. It was her way of trying to find out how much you liked her.'
    'Is that what she was doing?' said Harry... 'Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?'
    'Girls don't often ask questions like that,' said Hermione.

&  '...Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old man are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgotten, lattely...'

&  'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike...'

  ... Instead, he smiled, raised a hand in farewell, turned around and led the way out of the station towards the sunlit street, with Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and Dudley hurrying along in his wake.”

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