These things don’t make her ‘bad’ and needn’t take all the whimsy and imagination out of her. They are part of her-part ofher imagination. If she were impervious to pain, and glided through life in blissful ignorance that she was unwanted and mistreated, she would not be brave or ...
“My dear Professor,surely a sensible person like yourself can call him by his name?All this ‘You-Know-Who’ nonsense — for eleven years I have been trying to persuade people to call him by hispropername:Voldemort.” Professor McGonagallflinched, but Dumbledore, who was unsticking two le...
'No, sir – house was almost destroyed but I got him out all right before theMugglesstartedswarmin' around. He fell asleep as we was flyin' over Bristol.' Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall bent forward over the bundle of blankets. Inside, just visible, was a baby boy, fast asleep. ...
Barrett Strong, 81. One of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevin...
Harry Potter: The 15 Most Heartbreaking Deaths, Ranked 1 SIRIUS BLACK. While Dumbledore was a depressing death for Harry Potter to face as his only real father figure, the death of Sirius Black hit him the hardest. 2 DOBBY. ...
As Harry once reflected, Hogwarts was the first and best home he’d ever known. And, as anyone who found comfort in those cold corridors knows, that wasn’t only true for Harry. For better or worse, …
We have never travelled in a campervan before and I must confess that I had one or two brief moments of reservation in the lead up to the trip. Was zero nights to six weeks going to be too much? Would the taller member of our party even fit in the van? I quickly learned that the...
The interview wound up running close to two hours, and on the car ride home, they opened the presents Rowling had given them: Anelli received a gold ring shaped like a snake with emerald eyes. The ring, Rowling wrote, was to thank her for her “invaluable protectiveness towards Harry and...
12 – David Jolicoeur (Trugoy the Dove, 54): Performed as Trugoy the Dove in the rap trio De La Soul. The cause of his death was not immediately revealed, but he had struggled with congestive heart failure in the final years of his life. ...
“Ahhh,” Dumbledore said thoughtfully, “I’d better out the kettle on.” “The first time I met Tom, I thought he was a normal boy. Sorted into Slytherin, my opinion of him did not change for I feel the sorting tells us very little about who we, as people, really are. However...