Leaky’s Daily Quotedown to Deathly Hallows: 76 Days

We have for you another double quotedown for this holiday weekend in the States! There are now only 76 days left until “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” hits theaters! We are posting a quote from the first half of the book every day in celebration and to give us a chance to discuss and ponder the final book as it goes to film. Here are the quotes!

“The Elder Wand,” he said, and he drew a straight vertical line upon the parchment. “The Resurrection Stone,” he said, and he added a circle on top of the line. “The Cloak of Invisibility,” he finished, enclosing both line and circle in a triangle, to make the symbol that so intrigued Hermione. “Together,” he said, “the Deathly Hallows.”

– Xenophilius Lovegood

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “The Tale of the Three Brothers”

“Bathilda?” Harry repeated.

She nodded again. Harry became aware of the locket against his skin; the thing inside it that sometimes ticked or beat had woken; he could feel it pulsing against the cold gold. . . .

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Bathilda’s Secret”