“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
J.K. Rowling
- Year
- 2005
- Genres
- young adult fiction, fantasy, adventure fiction
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Harry did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behaviour, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way.
J.K. Rowling
I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.
J.K. Rowling
“I’d love to go with you as friends! Nobody’s ever asked me to a party before, as a friend!”
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“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
J.K. Rowling
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
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“You prat Ron, look at the state of her!” “Ginny, don’t call Ron a prat, you’re not the captain of this team—” “Well, you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.”
J.K. Rowling