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(confronting Professor Dumbledore with his wand) "I don't want your help. Don't you understand, I have to do this. I have to kill you or he's [Voldemort's] going to kill me."
- Draco Malfoy,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(confiding to Professor Horace Slughorn) "I am going to tell you something, something that others have only guessed at. It is true, I am the chosen! Only I can destroy him [Voldemort] but in order to do so I need to know what Tom Riddle asked you all those years ago in your office and I need to know what you told him. Be brave Professor, be brave like my mother otherwise you will disgrace her."
- Harry Potter,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(Harry, who has just gotten his broken nose fixed by Luna, asks, "How do I look?") "Exceptionally ordinary."
- Luna Lovegood,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(speaking with Harry Potter) "Oh Harry! You need to shave, my friend. You know at times I forget how much you have grown. At times I still see that small boy from the cupboard. Forgive my mawkishness Harry. I'm an old man."
- Professor Albus Dumbledore,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(replying after Harry tells him "Sir, I didn't think you could teleport within Hogwarts.") "Oh, being me has its privileges!"
- Professor Albus Dumbledore,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(speaking with Harry Potter after sucessfully teleporting) "Most people vomit the first time."
- Professor Albus Dumbledore,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(agreeing to return to Hogwarts at Dumbledore's request) "All right, I'll do it but I want a new office and I want a raise. These are mad times we live in, mad!"
- Professor Horace Slughorn,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(telling Harry about Tom Riddle) "When I first met young Mr. Riddle he was a quiet, obedient and brilliant boy. Committed to becoming a first rate wizard. Not unlike others I have known. Not unlike yourself in fact. If a monster existed, it was buried deep within."
- Professor Horace Slughorn,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(after hitting Harry with a spell) "You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? Yes, I am the Half-Blood Prince."
- Professor Severus Snape,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(asking Harry to show his evidence that Malfoy was responsible for cursing a student - Harry says "I just know" to which Snape replies in his ever so slow way of speaking) "You...just...know? Once again you astonish me, Potter, with gifts mere mortals can not even dream of possessing. How grand it must be."
- Professor Severus Snape,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(Professor Minerva McGonagall to Harry, Ron and Hermione: "Why is it when something happens it is always you three?") "I know Professor, I've been asking myself that question for six years."
- Ron Weasley,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince