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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Harry, we saw Uranus up close!” said Ron, still giggling feebly. “Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus — ha ha ha —"

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-" "By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?"

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate."

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