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hd_writersWe hope you enjoyed our canon quizzes as much as we had fun preparing them for you! Under the cut are the answers to the second canon qualification quiz featuring humorous quotes from the Harry Potter books. I did not have time to put them in the order they appeared on the quiz, but each quote is organized by book and chapter and should be readily recognizable. So scan through them, have another giggle, and give it up for JKR's quirky sense of humor! Thanks for playing our canon qualification game.
HUMOR CANON QUALIFICATION QUIZ
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
01. ‘Would you care for a sherbet lemon?’ [Dumbledore]
‘A what?’
‘A sherbet lemon. They’re a kind of Muggle sweet I’m rather fond of.’
‘No, thank you,’ said Professor McGonagall coldly, as though she didn’t think this was the moment for sherbet lemons.
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
02. ‘So put me on! Don’t be afraid!
And don’t get in a flap!
You’re in safe hands (though I have none)
For I’m a Thinking Cap!’
Chapter 7 The Sorting Hat
03. ‘I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.’
Chapter 9 The Midnight Duel
04. ‘Don’t play,’ said Hermione at once.
‘Say you’re ill,’ said Ron.
‘Pretend to break your leg,’ Hermione suggested.
‘Really break your leg,’ said Ron.
Chapter 13: Nicholas Flamel
05. ‘AAAAAAAAAAARGH!’
Chapter 15: The Forbidden Forest
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
06. ‘Did you really?’ said Mr Weasley eagerly. ‘Did it go all right? I-I mean,’ he faltered, as sparks flew from Mrs Weasley’s eyes, ‘that-that was very wrong, boys – very wrong indeed ...’
Chapter 3: The Burrow
07. ‘Tut, tut – hardly any of you remembered that my favourite colour is lilac. I say so in Year with a Yeti. And a few of you need to read Wanderings with Werewolves more carefully – I clearly state in chapter twelve that my ideal birthday gift would be harmony between all magic and non-magic peoples – though I wouldn’t say no to a large bottle of Ogden’s Old Firewhisky!’ He gave them another roguish wink.
[...]
‘... but Miss Hermione Granger knew my secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and market my own range of hair-care potions – good girl! In fact –’ he flipped her paper over, ‘full marks! Where is Miss Hermione Granger?’
Chapter 6: Gilderoy Lockhart
08. Malfoy and some of the other Slytherins cheered. Hermione was dancing on tiptoes. ‘Do you think he’s all right?’ she squealed through her fingers.
‘Who cares?’ said Harry and Ron together.
Chapter 11: The Duelling Club
09. [I]n March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in Greenhouse Three. This made Professor Sprout very happy.
‘The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,’ she told Harry.
Chapter 14: Cornelius Fudge
10. Myrtle goggled at them.
‘You’re alive,’ she said blankly to Harry.
‘There’s no need to sound so disappointed,’ he said grimly, wiping flecks of blood and slime off his glasses.
‘Oh, well ... I’d just been thinking. If you had died, you’d have been welcome to share my toilet,’ said Myrtle, blushing silver.
Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
11. She seemed to be swelling with inexpressible anger – but the swelling didn’t stop. Her great red face started to expand, her tiny eyes bulged and her mouth stretched too tightly for speech. Next second, several buttons burst from her tweed jacket and pinged off the walls – she was inflating like a monstrous balloon, her stomach bursting free of her tweed waistband, each of her fingers blowing up like a salami ...
Chapter 2: Aunt Marge's Big Mistake
12. ‘Stop it! Stop it!’ cried the manager, poking the walking stick through the bars and knocking the books apart. ‘I’m never stocking them again, never! It’s been bedlam! I thought we’d seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of The Invisible Book of Invisibility – cost a fortune, and we never found them ...’
Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron
13. ‘I’m dying!’ Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. ‘I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!’ ♥
Chapter 6: Talons and Tea Leaves
14. ‘This is a useful little spell,’ he told the class over his shoulder. ‘Please watch closely.’
He raised the wand to shoulder height, said ‘Waddiwasi!’ and pointed it at Peeves.
With the force of a bullet, the wad of chewing gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeves’s left nostril; he whirled right way up and zoomed away, cursing.
Chapter 7: The Boggart in the Wardrobe
15. ‘No. Professor Dumbledore managed to convince Fudge that I was trying to save your lives.’ He sighed. ‘That was the final straw for Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard. [...]’
Chapter 22: Owl Post Again
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
16. ‘Ouch! Fred, no – go back, go back, there’s been some kind of mistake – tell George not to – OUCH! George, no, there’s no room, go back quickly and tell Ron –’
‘Maybe Harry can hear us, Dad – maybe he’ll be able to let us out –’
There was a loud hammering of fists on the boards behind the electric fire.
‘Harry? Harry, can you hear us?’
The Dursleys rounded on Harry like a pair of angry wolverines.
‘What is this?’ growled Uncle Vernon. ‘What’s going on?’
‘They – they’ve tried to get here by Floo powder,’ said Harry, fighting a mad desire to laugh. ‘They can travel by fire – only you’ve blocked the fireplace – hang on –’
Chapter 4: Back to the Burrow
17. ‘Just put them on, Archie, there’s a good chap, you can’t walk around like that, the Muggle on the gate’s already getting suspicious –’
‘I bought this in a Muggle shop,’ said the old wizard stubbornly. ‘Muggles wear them.’
‘Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,’ said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.
‘I’m not putting them on,’ said old Archie in indignation. ‘I like a healthy breeze round my privates, thanks.’
Chapter 8: The Quidditch World Cup
18. ‘Mr Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the castle has this year been extended to include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty-seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr Filch’s office, if anybody would like to check it.’
Chapter 12: The Triwizard Tournament
19. ‘Oh – sorry, Neville!’ Fred shouted, over all the laughter. ‘I forgot – it was the custard creams we hexed –’
Within a minute, however, Neville had moulted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal. He even joined in laughing.
‘Canary Creams!’ Fred shouted to the excitable crowd. ‘George and I invented them – seven Sickles each, bargain!’
Chapter 21: The House-Elf Liberation Front
20. Neville and Ginny were dancing nearby – he could see Ginny wincing frequently as Neville trod on her feet – and Dumbledore was waltzing with Madame Maxime. He was so dwarfed by her that the top of his pointed hat barely tickled her chin; however, she moved very gracefully for a woman so large. Mad-Eye Moody was doing an extremely ungainly twostep with Professor Sinistra, who was nervously avoiding his wooden leg.
Chapter 23: The Yule Ball
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
21. ‘What did he do to you, Diddy?’ Aunt Petunia said in a quavering voice, now sponging sick from the front of Dudley’s leather jacket. ‘Was it – was it you-know-what, darling? Did he use – his thing?’
Chapter 2: A Peck of Owls
22. Once again the lift doors opened and four or five witches and wizards got out; at the same time, several paper aeroplanes swooped into the lift. Harry stared up at them as they flapped idly around above his head; they were a pale violet colour and he could see Ministry of Magic stamped along the edge of their wings.
‘Just inter-departmental memos,’ Mr Weasley muttered to him. ‘We used to use owls, but the mess was unbelievable ... droppings all over the desks ...’
Chapter 7: The Ministry of Magic
23. ‘You applied first for the Defence Against the Dark Arts post, I believe?’ Professor Umbridge asked Snape.
‘Yes,’ said Snape quietly.
‘But you were unsuccessful?’
Snape’s lip curled.
‘Obviously.’
Chapter 17: Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four
24. IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHERE TO GO, INCAPABLE OF NORMAL SPEECH OR UNABLE TO REMEMBER WHY YOU ARE HERE, OUR WELCOMEWITCH WILL BE PLEASED TO HELP.
Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
25. ‘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 occurred 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 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.’
Chapter 23: Christmas on the Closed Ward
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
26. ‘What do you like me to call you when we’re alone together?’
Even by the dim light of the lantern Harry could tell that Mrs Weasley had turned bright red; he himself felt suddenly warm around the ears and neck, and hastily gulped soup, clattering his spoon as loudly as he could against the bowl.
‘Mollywobbles,’ whispered a mortified Mrs Weasley into the crack at the edge of the door.
Chapter 5: An Excess of Phlegm
27. ‘There has been much talk on that very subject even amongst the ghosts,’ interrupted Nearly Headless Nick, inclining his barely connected head towards Harry so that it wobbled dangerously on its ruff. ‘I am considered something of a Potter authority; it is widely known that we are friendly. I have assured the spirit community that I will not pester you for information, however. “Harry Potter knows that he can confide in me with complete confidence,” I told them. “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[.]
Chapter 8: Snape Victorious
28. ‘Do you remember me telling you we are practising nonverbal spells, Potter?’
‘Yes,’ said Harry stiffly.
‘Yes sir.’
‘There’s no need to call me “sir”, Professor.’
Chapter 9: The Half-Blood Prince
29. ‘You filthy hypocrite! What about you and Lavender, thrashing around like a pair of eels all over the place?’ demanded Ginny.
Chapter 25: The Seer Overheard
30. ‘Master Malfoy moves with a nobility that befits his pure blood,’ croaked Kreacher at once. ‘His features recall the fine bones of my mistress and his manners are those of –’
‘Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!’ squeaked Dobby angrily. ‘A bad boy who – who –’
Chapter 21: The Unknowable Room
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
31. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, ‘Wow – we’re identical!’
Chapter 4: The Seven Potters
32. ‘Remove this foul addition at once! Remove it, I say! You are ruining a great work of art! Where am I? What is going on?’
Chapter 15: The Goblin's Revenge
33. ‘All right,’ said Hermione, disconcerted. ‘Say the Cloak existed ... what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?’
‘What of it?’
‘Well, how can that be real?’
‘Prove that it is not,’ said Xenophilius.
Hermione looked outraged.
‘But that’s – I’m sorry, but that’s completely ridiculous! How can I possibly prove it doesn’t exist? Do you expect me to get hold of – of all the pebbles in the world, and test them? I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!’
‘Yes, you could,’ said Xenophilius. ‘I am glad to see that you are opening your mind a little.’
Chapter 21: The Tale of the Three Brothers
34. ‘While the diadem bestows wisdom,’ she said, with an obvious effort to pull herself together, ‘I doubt that it would greatly increase your chances of defeating the wizard who calls himself Lord –’
‘Haven’t I just told you, I’m not interested in wearing it!’
Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts
35. ‘Is this the moment?’ Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. ‘OI! There’s a war going on here!’
Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts
HUMOR CANON QUALIFICATION QUIZ
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
01. ‘Would you care for a sherbet lemon?’ [Dumbledore]
‘A what?’
‘A sherbet lemon. They’re a kind of Muggle sweet I’m rather fond of.’
‘No, thank you,’ said Professor McGonagall coldly, as though she didn’t think this was the moment for sherbet lemons.
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
02. ‘So put me on! Don’t be afraid!
And don’t get in a flap!
You’re in safe hands (though I have none)
For I’m a Thinking Cap!’
Chapter 7 The Sorting Hat
03. ‘I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.’
Chapter 9 The Midnight Duel
04. ‘Don’t play,’ said Hermione at once.
‘Say you’re ill,’ said Ron.
‘Pretend to break your leg,’ Hermione suggested.
‘Really break your leg,’ said Ron.
Chapter 13: Nicholas Flamel
05. ‘AAAAAAAAAAARGH!’
Chapter 15: The Forbidden Forest
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
06. ‘Did you really?’ said Mr Weasley eagerly. ‘Did it go all right? I-I mean,’ he faltered, as sparks flew from Mrs Weasley’s eyes, ‘that-that was very wrong, boys – very wrong indeed ...’
Chapter 3: The Burrow
07. ‘Tut, tut – hardly any of you remembered that my favourite colour is lilac. I say so in Year with a Yeti. And a few of you need to read Wanderings with Werewolves more carefully – I clearly state in chapter twelve that my ideal birthday gift would be harmony between all magic and non-magic peoples – though I wouldn’t say no to a large bottle of Ogden’s Old Firewhisky!’ He gave them another roguish wink.
[...]
‘... but Miss Hermione Granger knew my secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and market my own range of hair-care potions – good girl! In fact –’ he flipped her paper over, ‘full marks! Where is Miss Hermione Granger?’
Chapter 6: Gilderoy Lockhart
08. Malfoy and some of the other Slytherins cheered. Hermione was dancing on tiptoes. ‘Do you think he’s all right?’ she squealed through her fingers.
‘Who cares?’ said Harry and Ron together.
Chapter 11: The Duelling Club
09. [I]n March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in Greenhouse Three. This made Professor Sprout very happy.
‘The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,’ she told Harry.
Chapter 14: Cornelius Fudge
10. Myrtle goggled at them.
‘You’re alive,’ she said blankly to Harry.
‘There’s no need to sound so disappointed,’ he said grimly, wiping flecks of blood and slime off his glasses.
‘Oh, well ... I’d just been thinking. If you had died, you’d have been welcome to share my toilet,’ said Myrtle, blushing silver.
Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
11. She seemed to be swelling with inexpressible anger – but the swelling didn’t stop. Her great red face started to expand, her tiny eyes bulged and her mouth stretched too tightly for speech. Next second, several buttons burst from her tweed jacket and pinged off the walls – she was inflating like a monstrous balloon, her stomach bursting free of her tweed waistband, each of her fingers blowing up like a salami ...
Chapter 2: Aunt Marge's Big Mistake
12. ‘Stop it! Stop it!’ cried the manager, poking the walking stick through the bars and knocking the books apart. ‘I’m never stocking them again, never! It’s been bedlam! I thought we’d seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of The Invisible Book of Invisibility – cost a fortune, and we never found them ...’
Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron
13. ‘I’m dying!’ Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. ‘I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!’ ♥
Chapter 6: Talons and Tea Leaves
14. ‘This is a useful little spell,’ he told the class over his shoulder. ‘Please watch closely.’
He raised the wand to shoulder height, said ‘Waddiwasi!’ and pointed it at Peeves.
With the force of a bullet, the wad of chewing gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeves’s left nostril; he whirled right way up and zoomed away, cursing.
Chapter 7: The Boggart in the Wardrobe
15. ‘No. Professor Dumbledore managed to convince Fudge that I was trying to save your lives.’ He sighed. ‘That was the final straw for Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard. [...]’
Chapter 22: Owl Post Again
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
16. ‘Ouch! Fred, no – go back, go back, there’s been some kind of mistake – tell George not to – OUCH! George, no, there’s no room, go back quickly and tell Ron –’
‘Maybe Harry can hear us, Dad – maybe he’ll be able to let us out –’
There was a loud hammering of fists on the boards behind the electric fire.
‘Harry? Harry, can you hear us?’
The Dursleys rounded on Harry like a pair of angry wolverines.
‘What is this?’ growled Uncle Vernon. ‘What’s going on?’
‘They – they’ve tried to get here by Floo powder,’ said Harry, fighting a mad desire to laugh. ‘They can travel by fire – only you’ve blocked the fireplace – hang on –’
Chapter 4: Back to the Burrow
17. ‘Just put them on, Archie, there’s a good chap, you can’t walk around like that, the Muggle on the gate’s already getting suspicious –’
‘I bought this in a Muggle shop,’ said the old wizard stubbornly. ‘Muggles wear them.’
‘Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,’ said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.
‘I’m not putting them on,’ said old Archie in indignation. ‘I like a healthy breeze round my privates, thanks.’
Chapter 8: The Quidditch World Cup
18. ‘Mr Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the castle has this year been extended to include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty-seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr Filch’s office, if anybody would like to check it.’
Chapter 12: The Triwizard Tournament
19. ‘Oh – sorry, Neville!’ Fred shouted, over all the laughter. ‘I forgot – it was the custard creams we hexed –’
Within a minute, however, Neville had moulted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal. He even joined in laughing.
‘Canary Creams!’ Fred shouted to the excitable crowd. ‘George and I invented them – seven Sickles each, bargain!’
Chapter 21: The House-Elf Liberation Front
20. Neville and Ginny were dancing nearby – he could see Ginny wincing frequently as Neville trod on her feet – and Dumbledore was waltzing with Madame Maxime. He was so dwarfed by her that the top of his pointed hat barely tickled her chin; however, she moved very gracefully for a woman so large. Mad-Eye Moody was doing an extremely ungainly twostep with Professor Sinistra, who was nervously avoiding his wooden leg.
Chapter 23: The Yule Ball
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
21. ‘What did he do to you, Diddy?’ Aunt Petunia said in a quavering voice, now sponging sick from the front of Dudley’s leather jacket. ‘Was it – was it you-know-what, darling? Did he use – his thing?’
Chapter 2: A Peck of Owls
22. Once again the lift doors opened and four or five witches and wizards got out; at the same time, several paper aeroplanes swooped into the lift. Harry stared up at them as they flapped idly around above his head; they were a pale violet colour and he could see Ministry of Magic stamped along the edge of their wings.
‘Just inter-departmental memos,’ Mr Weasley muttered to him. ‘We used to use owls, but the mess was unbelievable ... droppings all over the desks ...’
Chapter 7: The Ministry of Magic
23. ‘You applied first for the Defence Against the Dark Arts post, I believe?’ Professor Umbridge asked Snape.
‘Yes,’ said Snape quietly.
‘But you were unsuccessful?’
Snape’s lip curled.
‘Obviously.’
Chapter 17: Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four
24. IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHERE TO GO, INCAPABLE OF NORMAL SPEECH OR UNABLE TO REMEMBER WHY YOU ARE HERE, OUR WELCOMEWITCH WILL BE PLEASED TO HELP.
Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
25. ‘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 occurred 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 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.’
Chapter 23: Christmas on the Closed Ward
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
26. ‘What do you like me to call you when we’re alone together?’
Even by the dim light of the lantern Harry could tell that Mrs Weasley had turned bright red; he himself felt suddenly warm around the ears and neck, and hastily gulped soup, clattering his spoon as loudly as he could against the bowl.
‘Mollywobbles,’ whispered a mortified Mrs Weasley into the crack at the edge of the door.
Chapter 5: An Excess of Phlegm
27. ‘There has been much talk on that very subject even amongst the ghosts,’ interrupted Nearly Headless Nick, inclining his barely connected head towards Harry so that it wobbled dangerously on its ruff. ‘I am considered something of a Potter authority; it is widely known that we are friendly. I have assured the spirit community that I will not pester you for information, however. “Harry Potter knows that he can confide in me with complete confidence,” I told them. “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[.]
Chapter 8: Snape Victorious
28. ‘Do you remember me telling you we are practising nonverbal spells, Potter?’
‘Yes,’ said Harry stiffly.
‘Yes sir.’
‘There’s no need to call me “sir”, Professor.’
Chapter 9: The Half-Blood Prince
29. ‘You filthy hypocrite! What about you and Lavender, thrashing around like a pair of eels all over the place?’ demanded Ginny.
Chapter 25: The Seer Overheard
30. ‘Master Malfoy moves with a nobility that befits his pure blood,’ croaked Kreacher at once. ‘His features recall the fine bones of my mistress and his manners are those of –’
‘Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!’ squeaked Dobby angrily. ‘A bad boy who – who –’
Chapter 21: The Unknowable Room
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
31. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, ‘Wow – we’re identical!’
Chapter 4: The Seven Potters
32. ‘Remove this foul addition at once! Remove it, I say! You are ruining a great work of art! Where am I? What is going on?’
Chapter 15: The Goblin's Revenge
33. ‘All right,’ said Hermione, disconcerted. ‘Say the Cloak existed ... what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?’
‘What of it?’
‘Well, how can that be real?’
‘Prove that it is not,’ said Xenophilius.
Hermione looked outraged.
‘But that’s – I’m sorry, but that’s completely ridiculous! How can I possibly prove it doesn’t exist? Do you expect me to get hold of – of all the pebbles in the world, and test them? I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!’
‘Yes, you could,’ said Xenophilius. ‘I am glad to see that you are opening your mind a little.’
Chapter 21: The Tale of the Three Brothers
34. ‘While the diadem bestows wisdom,’ she said, with an obvious effort to pull herself together, ‘I doubt that it would greatly increase your chances of defeating the wizard who calls himself Lord –’
‘Haven’t I just told you, I’m not interested in wearing it!’
Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts
35. ‘Is this the moment?’ Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. ‘OI! There’s a war going on here!’
Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts
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