but that's a sadder story

You’re an interesting man, Mr. Scamander. Just like your suitcase, I think there’s more to you than meets the eye. Kicked out of Hogwarts for endangering human life with a beast, yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion.. I wonder what makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you, Mr. Scamander?.  

Harry wished he had about eight more eyes. He turned his head in every direction as they walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once: the shops, the things outside them, the people doing their shopping. A plump woman outside an Apothecary was shaking her head as they passed, saying, “Dragon liver, sixteen Sickles an ounce, they’re mad.”

A low, soft hooting came from a dark shop with a sign saying Eeylops Owl Emporium —Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy. Several boys of about Harry’s age had their noses pressed against a window with broomsticks in it. “Look,” Harry heard one of them say, “the new Nimbus Two Thousand — fastest ever —” There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Harry had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels’ eyes, tottering piles of spell books, quills, and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon. — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

endless list of favorite movies (in no particular order) — harry potter series 

words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

“I’m bigger than my body. I’m colder than this home. I’m meaner than my demons. I’m bigger than these bones.”  [insp]

Horned Serpent | Named by Isolt Sayre after the great horned river serpent that has a jewel set into its forehead; Horned Serpent house is sometimes considered to represent the mind of a witch or wizard. It is also said that Horned Serpent favors scholars. [ x ]

The wet one. The kraken king, m’lords. I dreamt him dead and he died, and the iron squids now turn on one another.

W E S T E R O S

hp meme: → one house: slytherin