“Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!”
“I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems”
“It was in this pub he'd learnt that, contrary to the belief of the majority of those laying bets, it is possible to flatten a hundred frogs with a hammer in less than thirty seconds. In short, it was a pub with a reputation. And very slimy walls.”
“The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
“Harry Potter, I know just what you went through.”
“Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.”