the world is quiet here

“Harry,” she said timidly, “don’t you see? This … this is exactly why we need you…. We need to know what it’s r-really like … facing him … facing V-Voldemort.” It was the first time she had ever said Voldemort’s name and it was this, more than anything else, that calmed Harry.

“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours’ time by Mrs. Dursley’s scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley…He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!”  [1/8]

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) dir. Chris Columbus

And quite honestly, I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.

moodboard: Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

There were once three brothers who were travelling along a lonely, winding road at twilight…

get to know me: (18/20) friendships ♡ harry and ron (harry potter) “They’ve got… they’ve got Ron?” “The thing Harry Potter will miss the most, sir!”

Herein is set forth the last will and testament of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), dir. David Yates

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.