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“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narra
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#ChocolateFrogs "What are these? They're not really frogs, are they?
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"This... is the Golden Snitch, and it's the most important ball of the lot. It's very hard to catch because it's so fast and difficult to see. It's the Seeker's job to catch it. You've got to weave in and out of the Chasers, Beaters, Bludgers, and Quaffle
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“She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.”― Anne Ursu
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"A Howler is a magical letter in a red envelope which enchants the written message into the writer's voice, usually at a very high volume." - Pottermore
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“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”― Brandon Sanderson
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“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree....I want to be magic.”― Charles de Lint
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”― W.B. Yeats
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"For this little drop of potion I stayed awake. No less than a teaspoon, but more to me than that caffeine." - Anon
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“Herbalism was the grounding of flower power. Flower power wasn’t just about hippies celebrating with flowers in our hair; nature got us. Nature woke us up.” - David Hoffmann
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“You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.”― J.K. Rowling
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“Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.”― Initially NO
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“That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.”― Charles de Lint
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“And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.” ― C.S. Lewis
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“There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It will fly.”― Tahereh Mafi
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“…there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt