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Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2) QUOTES

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2) QUOTES

1 " Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. With the right spell or potion, they can fabricate love, travel through time, change physical form and even extinguish life. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

2 " I assert our inalienable right to party! "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

3 " I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world. I once shared an office with a woman who had covered the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kitties; she was the most bigoted, spiteful champion of the death penalty with whom it has ever been my misfortune to share a kettle. A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a lack of real warmth or charity. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

4 " Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. With the right spell or potion, they can fabricate love, travel through time, change physical form and even extinguish life. In the wrong hands, power and magic can be dark, lethal, and consuming. Lord Voldemort showed us that; he sought power so viciously that he tore apart the fabric of his soul and lost everything that made him human. He is the ultimate villain, motivated by an ice-cold desire for power and destruction. Obviously few people could match Voldemort in general evil intent (though Bellatrix Lestrange and Dolores Umbridge indeed try), but there are certainly other characters attracted to power. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

5 " No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858 - 1865): 'their puir wee braines couldnae cope wi' it. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

6 " Albert Boot
1747 – 1752
Likeable, but inept. Resigned after a mismanaged goblin rebellion.

Basil Flack
1752 – 1752
Shortest serving Minister. Lasted two months; resigned after the goblins joined forces with werewolves. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

7 " A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a lack of real warmth or charity. So "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

8 " Dolores Umbridge may have looked like an iced cupcake, but she was anything but sweet. She "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

9 " Under Kingsley Shacklebolt, Azkaban was purged of Dementors. While it remains in use as a prison, the guards are now Aurors, who are regularly rotated from the mainland. There has been no breakout since this new system was introduced. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

10 " The name ‘Azkaban’ derives from a mixture of the prison ‘Alcatraz’, which is its closest Muggle equivalent, being set on an island, and ‘Abaddon’, which is a Hebrew word meaning ‘place of destruction’ or ‘depths of hell’. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

11 " Even at seventeen, Dolores was judgemental, prejudiced and sadistic, although her conscientious attitude, her saccharine manner towards her superiors, and the ruthlessness and stealth with which she took credit for other people’s work soon gained her advancement. Before "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

12 " (Dolores is the only person, other than Lord Voldemort, to leave a permanent physical scar on Harry, having forced him to cut the words ‘I must not tell lies’ on the back of his own hand during detention). "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

13 " She is an immensely controlling person, and all who challenge her authority and world-view must, in her opinion, be punished. She actively enjoys subjugating and humiliating others, and except in their declared allegiances, there is little to choose between her and Bellatrix Lestrange. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

14 " When his bravery at the Battle of Hogwarts was publicised, his actions (along with those of Regulus Black, which gained attention in the aftermath of Voldemort’s demise) removed much of the stigma that had been attached to Slytherin house for hundreds of years past. Though now (permanently) retired, his portrait has a place of honour in the Slytherin common room. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

15 " Evangeline Orpington 1849 – 1855 A good friend of Queen Victoria’s, who never realised she was a witch, let alone Minister for Magic. Orpington is believed to have intervened magically (and illegally) in the Crimean War. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

16 " I assert our inalienable right to party’, which drew cheers from all present. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

17 " A gifted wizard, but an unlikely politician, McLaird was an exceptionally taciturn man who preferred to communicate in monosyllables and expressive puffs of smoke that he produced through the end of his wand. Forced from office out of sheer irritation at his eccentricities. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

18 " Her desire to control, to punish and to inflict pain, all in the name of law and order, are, I think, every bit as reprehensible as Lord Voldemort’s unvarnished espousal of evil. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

19 " The worst of which he could be accused during his teaching career is that he made far too great a distinction between those students whom he found amusing and promising, and those in whom he saw no flicker of future greatness. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)

20 " Not only did Peeves break easily through the giant bell jar, showering an entire corridor with broken glass, he also escaped the trap armed with several cutlasses, crossbows, a blunderbuss and a miniature cannon. "

― J.K. Rowling , Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2)