Quotes.
from
Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Chapter One:
Owl Post


< Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of the year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard.
~ Narrator


< Non-magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognizing it. On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises.
~ Bathilda Bagshot, A History of Magic


< "HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I - WANT - TO - TALK - TO - HARRY - POTTER -"
< "THERE IS NO HARRY POTTER HERE! I DON'T KNOW WHAT SCHOOL YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! NEVER CONTACT ME AGAIN! DON'T YOU COME NEAR MY FAMILY!"
~ Ron Weasley, Vernon Dursley; conversation on the telephone


< "Don't let the Muggles get you down!"
~ Ron Weasley


< "Harry - this is a Pocket Sneakoscope. If there's someone untrustworthy around, it's supposed to light up and spin. Bill says it's rubbish sold for wizard tourists and isn't reliable, because it kept lighting up at dinner last night. But he didn't realize Fred and George had put beetles in his soup."
~ Ron Weasley


< Extremely unusual though he was, at that moment Harry Potter felt just like everyone else - glad, for the first time in his life, that it was his birthday.
~ Narrator



Chapter Two:
Aunt Marge's Big Mistake


< ". . . The public is warned that Black is armed and extremely dangerous. A special hotline has been set up, and any sighting of Black should be reported immediately."
< "No need to tell us he's no good. Look at the state of him, the filthy layabout! Look at his hair!"
~ News reporter, Vernon Dursley


< "When will they learn that hanging's the only way to deal with these people?"
~ Vernon Durlsey; regarding convicts


< "Firstly, you'll keep a civil tongue in your head when you're talking to Marge."
< "All right, if she does when she's talking to me."
< "Secondly, as Marge doesn't know anything about your abnormality, I don't want any - any funny stuff while she's here. You behave yourself, got me?"
< "I will if she does."
< "And thirdly, we've told Marge you attend St. Brutus's Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys."
< "What?"
~ Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter


< "Duddy's got to make himself smart for his auntie. Mummy's bought him a lovely new bow tie."
~ Petunia Dursley; gushing


< "I need you to sign [this] permission form."
< "And why should I do that?"
< "Well, it'll be hard work, pretending to Aunt Marge that I go to that St. Whatsits -"
< "St. Brutus's Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys!"
< "Exactly. It's a lot to remember. I'll have to make it sound convincing, won't I? What if I accidentally let something slip?"
< "You'll get the stuffing knocked out of you, won't you?"
< "Knocking the stuffing out of me won't make Aunt Marge forget what I could tell her."
~ blackmailing Harry Potter, extremely nervous Vernon Dursley


< "Where's my Dudders? Where's my neffy-poo?"
~ Marge Dursley


< "It's damn good of Vernon and Petunia to keep you. Wouldn't have done it myself. You'd have gone straight to an orphanage if you'd been dumped on my doorstep."
~ Marge Dursley


< "Where is it that you send him, again, Vernon?"
< "St. Brutus's. It's a first-rate institution for hopeless causes."
< "I see. Do they use the cane at St. Brutus's, boy?"
< "Er - . . . Yes, all the time."
< "Excellent. I won't have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. . . . Have you been beaten often?"
< "Oh, yeah, loads of times."
~ Marge Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter


< "You musn't blame yourself for the way the boy's turned out, Vernon. If there's something rotten on the inside, there's nothing anyone can do about it."
~ Marge Dursley


< "It's one of the basic rules of breeding. You see it all the time with dogs. If there's something wrong with the bitch, there'll be something wrong with the pup."
~ Marge Dursley


< "Pardon me. But I do like to see a healthy-sized boy. You'll be a proper-sized man, Dudders, like your father. Now this one here - This one's got a mean, runty look to him. You get that with dogs. I had Colonel Fubster drown one last year. Ratty little thing it was. Weak. Underbred.
< "It all comes down to blood, as I was saying the other day. Bad blood will out. Now, I'm saying nothing against your family, Petunia, but your sister was a bad egg. They turn up in the best families. Then she ran off with a wastrel and here's the result right in front of us."
~ Marge Dursley


< "Go on boy, go on. Proud of your parents, are you? They go and get themselves killed in a car crash (drunk, I expect) -"
< "They didn't die in a car crash!"
< "They died in a car crash, you nasty little liar, and left you to be a burden on their decent, hardworking relatives! You are an insolent, ungrateful little -"
~ Marge Dursley, Harry Potter


< "[Aunt Marge] deserved it. She deserved what she got. You keep away from me. I'm going. I've had enough."
~ Harry Potter; to his uncle


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