Many people already knew that Slytherin was going to hold a dance in the dungeons, but everyone had one concern.
Joy was now a Chaser on the Hufflepuff house team. She was radiant on the pitch, as dazzling as the Sun.
Phoebe, the girl who had once been trapped inside a portrait, had cut her hair short. She always looked gloomy, making it hard to believe that the two of them were twins.
It was because of this concern that Isabella Sidney had approached Pomona and asked her to search the Slytherin common room. Once everything was confirmed to be "safe," what else would anyone have to worry about?
Pomona had never imagined doing such a thing in all her life, not even in her dreams. How could she possibly dare to search the Slytherin Common Room?
She found Isabella's request absurd. Even more absurd was that Snape had proposed exchanging searches, because he wanted to see whether the Hufflepuff common room contained any "other publications" besides Muggle comics.
This was one of Tobias Snape's good habits. He never brought those "colorful" magazines home, though Severus could easily find them in the family rubbish bin, and Sirius could just as easily get hold of posters of Muggle girls in bikinis.
Paracelsus had said that everything was poisonous; the difference between medicine and poison lay in the dose.
Things that brought joy were no good when one became too engrossed in them.
Just like the Mirror of Erised. It revealed the deepest, most urgent desires in people's hearts. If they could not have them in reality, they could at least "possess" them in the mirror. People wasted their lives before it, unable to tell reflection from reality.
Georgiana had once made Denon return a work, even though Napoleon had looted