After Remus turned into a Werewolf, as long as James did not intervene, Severus would probably not have emerged unscathed even if he survived. That would mean one less "love rival" for him.
Sirius would not betray him. Besides, Sirius had come up with the plan. If it was exposed, they would be accomplices, and their punishment would be far more serious than merely being suspended for a few days.
The human heart was like a pendulum swinging back and forth, constantly between the "righteous" and the "criminal."
The world depended on me. If the world I saw was wrong, then I had to correct it.
James saved Severus's life, but he also exposed his own secret.
Georgiana found an empty room to smoke in. Music still played outside the door, yet she felt as though she were in another world.
In the essay he submitted, Cedric used fossils and living matter as his argument. Fossils formed after animals and plants lost their "life," preserving their original shapes.
At the time, Minerva and the people in the Transfiguration Office were studying the mechanism behind people being "petrified" by the Basilisk. They arrived at a very peculiar conclusion: the Basilisk petrified the soul rather than the body. Even Nearly Headless Nick had been "petrified" by the Basilisk.
Then Cedric went on to explore the principles governing the conversion between living and nonliving matter, tossing Pomona's words about the "observer" entirely out of his mind.
The observer moved through the jungle without participating in its "game," even if he saw an adorable little rabbit being cruelly eaten.
Australia was both a continent and an enormous island. Thylacines looked very much like wolves, though they bore tiger-like stripes. Because they were suspected of attacking flocks of sheep, they were hated and hunted down