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Death Quotes by J.K. Rowling

41 Death quotes by J.K. Rowling

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It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high, showing how courage changes the view of death. The quotes mention magical spells, the fear of losing loved ones, and the idea that death is the final enemy to be defeated.

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“Now let’s get upstairs and fight, or all the good Death Eaters’ll be taken.”

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“To the well organized mind, death is just the beginning of the next adventure.”

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“I wish...I wish I were dead...” “And what use would that be to anyone?”

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“How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder,”

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“Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...”

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“Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. " Avada Kedavra! ”

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“Why do you live? Because I have something worth living for.”

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“last enemy that shall be destroyed is death,”

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“Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.”

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“If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will…

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“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into…

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“And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate…

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“It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena…

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“No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside…

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“Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would commit such a crime. The blood of a unicorn will…

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“...but he could not see any of the people he loved, no hint of Hermione, Ron, Ginny, or any of the other…

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“Myrtle," Harry said slowly, "how am I supposed to breathe?" At this, Myrtle's eyes filled with sudden tears again. "Tactless!" she muttered,…

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“But you are a pureblood, aren’t you, my brave boy?” Voldemort asked Neville, who stood facing him, his empty hands curled in…

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“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be…

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“She tamped down the awful urge to cry with a fierceness that her mother had always deplored, especially in the wake of…

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“Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." "It's for some…

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“Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Who Lived." None of…

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“Harry had been picturing his parents’ deaths over and over again for three years now, ever since he’d found out they had…

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“Been trying to keep an eye out for you.” Ron gasped. “The silver doe!” he said excitedly. “Was that you too?” “What…

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“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love…

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“Can you forgive me?” he said. “Can you forgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? Harry, I only feared…

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“Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind, Two of us will help you, whichever you would find, One among us seven…

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“You are not going to pass off your many ineptitudes on the students of Hogwarts. I shall not permit it.” “Excuse me?”…

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“Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the door to…

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“I brought about the death of Albus Dumbledore!” “You thought you did,” said Harry, “but you were wrong.” For the first time,…

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“He did not know why he was doing it, why he was approaching the dying man: He did not know what he…

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“And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encountered the thing that was then…

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“Expecto Patronum!” His voice sounded dim and distant…Another wisp of silver smoke, feebler than the last, drifted from the wand — he…

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“O mind, the world is a deep, dark pit. On every side, Death casts forward his net.”

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“I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to…

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“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged…

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“Harry stooped down and saw, upon the frozen, lichen-spotted granite, the words KENDRA DUMBLEDORE and, a short way below her dates of…

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“As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “ Crucio! ” The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air…

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“That is because it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn,” said Firenze. “Only one who has nothing to lose, and…

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“Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear…

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“Well, I reckon you should --" Ron began, but he was interrupted by the Fat Lady, who had been watching them sleepily and now…

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