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"I told you!" Ron hissed at Hermione
as she stared down the article. "I told you not to annoy Rita Skeeter!
She's made you out to be some sort of-scarlet woman!"
Hermione stopped looking astonished and snorted with laughter. "Scarlet
woman?" she repeated, shaking with suppressed giggles as she looked around
at Ron.
"It's what my mum calls them," Ron muttered, his ears going red.
"Oh, are you a prefect Percy? You should have said something we had no
idea."
"Hang on I think I remember him saying something about it, Once..."
"Or twice-"
"A minute-"
"All summer-"
"We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us."
-George Weasley
"Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough."
-Ron
"It's lucky it's dark...I haven't blushed so much since Madame Pomfrey told
me she liked my new earmuffs."
-Dumbledore
"Yer' great puddin' of a son don' need fattenin' anymore, Dursley don'
worry."
-Hagrid
"I believe misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to
send you a toilet seat."
-Dumbledore
Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way
to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way for the
Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through..."
George looked up in time to see Malfoy pretending to faint with terror again.
"That little git," he said calmly. "He wasn't so cocky last night
when the dementors were down our end of the train. Came running into our
compartment, didn't he, Fred?"
"Nearly wet himself," said Fred, with a contemptuous glance at Malfoy.
"Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there.
"Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown
himself."
"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to
keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."
"Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor
Snape is an ugly git."
"Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like
that ever became a professor."
"Mad-Eye Moody?" said George thoughtfully, spreading marmalade on his
toast. "Isn't he that nutter--"
"Your father thinks very highly of Mad-Eye Moody," said Mrs. Weasley
sternly.
"Yeah, well, Dad collects plugs, doesn't he?" said Fred quietly as
Mrs. Weasley left the room. "Birds of a feather..."
"OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!"
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His
wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret.
"I want to fix that in my memory forever," said Ron, his closed and an
uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing
ferret..."
"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.
"You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione.
"Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better
change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff."
"Don't you think it's a bit obvious you've made these up?" said
Hermione
"How dare you!" said Ron in mock outrage. "We've been working
like house elves here!"
"Oh Professor look! I think I found an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's
that, Professor?"
"It is Uranus my dear." said Professor Trelawney peering down a the
chart.
"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron.
"Enjoying it?" said Ron darkly. "I don't reckon he'd come home if
Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his
boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of
the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me... They'll be announcing their
engagement any day now."
Ron was staring at Pettigrew with the utmost revulsion.
"I let you sleep in my bed!" he said.
"Well...when we were in our first year, Harry--young, carefree, and
innocent--"
Harry snorted. He doubted whether Fred and George had ever been innocent.
"Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the
Firebolt. She - er got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities
wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about
staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as
long as you caught the Snitch first." - Oliver Wood
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins
were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
"Harry, this is no time to be a gentleman! Knock her off her broom if you
have to!" -Oliver Wood
"Longbottom, if brains were gold then you'd be poorer than Weasley, and
that's saying something." -Draco
"Percy wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing
Dobby's tea cozy." -Ron
"Viktor? Hasn't he asked you to call him Vicky yet?" -A very jealous
Ron
"Azkaban -- the wizard prison, Goyle," said Malfoy, looking at him in
disbelief. "Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going
backward." -Draco
"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could have been killed -- or
worse, expelled!" -Hermione
"Twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy?" -Hermione
Ron: "I could've taken those mer-idiots any time I wanted."
Hermione: "What were you going to do, snore at them?"
Hermione: "Harry, I've been thinking -- you know what we've got to do,
don't you? Straight away, the moment we get back to the castle?"
Harry: "Yeah, give Ron a good kick up the--"
Hermione: "Write to Sirius."
"If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast
about."
-Sirius Black
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it
keeps its brain."
-Arthur Weasley
"His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad
his hair as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the dark lord."
-Ginny
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the
wizarding world."
-Ron
"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if
you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
-Snape
"Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a
perfect map of the London Underground."
-Dumbledore
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."
-Harry
"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a
house? When can I move in?"
-Harry
"You might even have a scar now, if you're lucky...that's what you want,
isn't it?"
-Harry to Ron
"You are truly your father's son, Harry..."
-Sirius Black