
“I have so! And I resent your statement. Some of the stuff is real. Besides, it’s in your best interest to read it. Your father is in there, along with Harry Potter.”

❝What’s real, the adverts?
Everything I need to know about
my father I learned while I was in
his house for eleven years. And
Harry Potter’s an Auror, there’s
nothing really important to know.❞
scorpius frustrated by losing a board game or card game to aurora.

❝Obviously it’s just- I dunno, rigged or something.❞
“Read it, Scorpius. They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true. Besides, it’s very well written, that old Miss Skeeter did a good job.”

❝Aurora, have you never read a newspaper in your life?
I’m terribly sorry to break it to you- and really, I am- but the
Daily Prophet wouldn’t publish a truthful word about
Hogwarts if Skeeter’s life depended on it. Utter bullshit.❞