What’s going on with you, Sam? Hm? ‘Cause smoking, throwing bottles at people — that sounds more like me than you.
I predict a bad end for your race humans. Every sentient creature on this earth when it falls into want, poverty, and misfortune usually cleaves to its own because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group helping one another, but you humans you just wait for a chance to make money from other people’s mishaps. When there’s hunger you don’t share out your food you just devour the weakest ones. This practice works among wolves since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive but amongst sentient races such selection usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest. Come to your own coclusions and make your own predictions.
The consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate, seemed to give his wit keenness, and to lend colour to his imagination.
— Now. Which of you can tell me the difference between an Animagus and a werewolf? No one? How... disappointing.
— Please, sir, an Animagus is a wizard who elects to turn into an animal. A werewolf has no choice in the matter. Furthermore, the werewolf actively hunts humans and responds only to the call of its own kind... That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Tell me. Are you incapable of restraining yourself? Or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?
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— He's got a point, you know.
No. I gave up drinking weeks ago. Yes. Nobody noticed. Which shows I probably conducted myself pretty well as a drunk.
If you insist on behaving like a monster, then I am going to make you one.
Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook
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