…And after a while Harry found himself taking it out simply to stare at Ginny’s name in the girl’s dormitory, wondering whether the intensity with which he gazed at it might break into her sleep, that she would somehow know that he was thinking about her, hoping she was alright 

“Next time there’s a ball, pluck up your courage and ask me out before somebody else does, and not as a last resort!”

dracosallegiance:

“Hey! My eyes are not glistening with the ghosts of my past!”

dumbledoreknits:

“Sorry about him. He doesn’t understand what it’s like, lying there day after day watching people press their ugly faces in on you…

Can you hear me? … It’s just, I’ve never talked to a snake before. Do you, I mean, do you talk to people often?”