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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus?
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Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!
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I'm a what? gasped Harry. A wizard, o' course, said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?
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They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small! said Hagrid. Small? said Hermione. Small? Hermione, I couldn't leave him, said Hagrid, tears now trickling down his bruised face into his beard. See -- he's my brother!
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That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.
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Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
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It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
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Killing rips the soul apart.
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THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!
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And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated? barked Uncle Vernon. Well... said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.
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Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does.
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I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course. How can she be? said Ron in horror. We’re on vacation!
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If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
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We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end you cannot prepare yourself for it.
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