Mad Eye Moody Quotes

• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Giving, Most Inspiring

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• Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Block, Nice, Eye

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• And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Eye, Men

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• I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Potters, Spots

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• Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Potters, Easy

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• Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Potters, Deathly Hallows

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• Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.

  J. K. Rowling

  Splits, Seven, Knows

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.51, Pottermore

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• Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cat, Night, Potatoes

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• At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, People, Giving

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