Quotations

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

• "There you are! Where have you been? The most ridiculous rumors - someone said you'd been expelled for crashing a flying car-"
  "Well, we haven't been expelled," Harry assured her.
  "You're not telling me you did fly here?" said Hermione, sounding almost as severe as Professor McGonagall.
• "An' they haven't invented a spell our Hermione can' do," said Hagrid proudly, making Hermione go a brilliant shade of magenta.
• "There might be a way," said Hermione slowly, dropping her voice still further with a quick glance across the room at Percy. "Of course, it would be difficult. And dangerous, very dangerous. We'd be breaking about fifty school rules, I expect-"
  "If, in a month or so, you feel like explaining, you will let us know, won't you?" said Ron irritably.
  "All right," said Hermione coldly. "What we'd need to do is to get inside the Slytherin common room and ask Malfoy a few questions without him realizing it's us."
  "But that's impossible," Harry said as Ron laughed.
  "No, it's not," said Hermione. "All we'd need is some Polyjuice Potion."
• "This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen," said Hermione as they scanned the recipe. "Lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed, and knotgrass," she murmured, running her finger down the list of ingredients. "Well, they're easy enough, they're in the student store-cupboard, we can help ourselves... Oooh, look, powdered horn of a bicorn - don't know where we're going to get that - shredded skin of a boomslang - that'll be tricky, too - and of course a bit of whoever we want to change into."
• "Well, if you two are going to chicken out, fine," she said. There were bright pink patches on her cheeks and her eyes were brighter than usual. "I don't want to break rules, you know. I think threatening Muggle-borns is far worse than brewing up a difficult potion. But if you don't want to find out if it's Malfoy, I'll go straight to Madam Pince now and hand the book back in-"
  "I never thought I'd see the day when you'd be persuading us to break rules," said Ron.
• "Maybe it can make itself invisible," said Hermione, prodding leeches to the bottom of the cauldron. "Or maybe it can disguise itself - pretend to be a suit of armor or something - I've read about Chameleon Ghouls-"
  "You read too much, Hermione," said Ron, pouring dead lacewings on top of the leeches.
• "He sounds like Percy," said Ron, wrinkling his nose in disgust. "Prefect, Head Boy... probably top of every class-"
  "You say that like it's a bad thing," said Hermione in a slightly hurt voice.
• "Harry - I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!"
  And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
  "What does she understand?" said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
  "Loads more than I do," said Ron, shaking his head.
  "But why's she got to go to the library?"
  "Because that's what Hermione does," said Ron, shrugging. "When in doubt, go to the library."
• "It won't matter that we never asked Myrtle, then!" he said to Harry. "Hermione'll probably have all the answers when they wake her up! Mind you, she'll go crazy when she finds out we've got exams in three days' time. She hasn't studied. It might be kinder to leave her where she is till they're over."

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