Thomas Kinkade spirit of xmas painting

Thomas Kinkade spirit of xmas paintingThomas Kinkade Serenity Cove painting
And time's . . . up!" called Slughorn. "Stop stirring, please!"
Slughorn moved slowly among the tables, peering into cauldrons. He made no comment, but occasionally gave the potions a stir or a sniff. At last he reached the table where Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ernie were sitting. He smiled ruefully at the tarlike substance in Ron's cauldron. He passed over Ernie's navy concoction. Hermione's potion he gave an approving nod. Then he saw Harry's, and a look of incredulous delight spread over his face.
"The clear winner!" he cried to the dungeon. "Excellent, excellent, Harry! Good lord, it's clear you've inherited your mother's talent. She was a dab hand at Potions, Lily was! Here you are, then, here you are - one bottle of Felix Felicis, as promised, and use it well!"

Lord Frederick Leighton The Garden of the Hesperides painting

Lord Frederick Leighton The Garden of the Hesperides painting
Lord Frederick Leighton The Fisherman and the Syren painting
Lord Frederick Leighton Solitude painting
Harry remained within the confines of the Burrow's gardenover the next few weeks. He spent most of his days playing two-a-side Quidditch in the Weasleys' orchard (he and Hermione against Ron and Ginny; Hermione was dreadful and Ginny good, so they were reasonably well matched) and his evenings eating triple helpings of everything Mrs. Weasley put in front of him.
It would have been a happy, peaceful holiday had it not been for the stones of disappearances, odd accidents, even of deaths now appearing almost daily in the Prophet. Sometimes Bill and Mr. Weasley brought Homenews before it even reached the paper. To Mrs. Weasley’s displeasure, Harry's sixteenth birthday celebrations were marred by grisly tidings brought to the party by Remus Lupin, who was looking gaunt and grim, his brown hair streaked liberally with gray, his clothes more ragged and patched than ever.

Pino pino color painting

Pino pino color painting
Pino Angelica painting
Harry was bleeding. Clutching his right hand in his left and swearing under his breath, he shouldered open his bedroom door. There was a crunch of breaking china. He had trodden on a cup of cold tea that had been sitting on the floor outside his bedroom door.

"What the --?"

　　　He looked around, the landing of number four, Privet Drive, was deserted. Possibly the cup of tea was Dudley's idea of a clever booby trap. Keeping his bleeding hand elevated, Harry scraped the fragments of cup together with the other hand and threw them into the already crammed bin just visible inside his bedroom door. Then he tramped across to the bathroom to run his finger under the tap

Francois Boucher The Rape of Europa painting

Francois Boucher The Rape of Europa painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative efforts, the joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us, if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered on to, but to minister to ourselves, to our fellow men.Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of a false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profits, and there must be an end to our conduct in banking and in business, which too of ten has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrong-doing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty on honon on the sacredness of our obligation, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live

John Collier Lady Godiva painting

John Collier Lady Godiva painting
Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus painting

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery spent Saturday stowing equipment, testing flight systems and getting ready for Sunday's scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery spent Saturday stowing equipment, testing flight systems and getting ready for Sunday's scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew of seven spent a week upgrading the International Space Station in advance of the first resident crew's arrival in less than two weeks. In an interview with reporters on the ground, commander Brian Duffy described the sight awaiting the Expedition One crew of two Russians and their American commander.