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Harry Potter monologue: Hagrid

I don' think I've bin any prouder. He's a champion all righ'. Ever since I was a youngun I've had ter put up with some who wouldn't know a good'un if it came up and bit'em on the bum. Harry – he's always believed in me. Always helped when I were in a spot o' bother. Ain't no finer lad than Harry, that's for sure. An' Hermione an' Ron – always by his side, always helpin' out, always actin' in everyone's best interests. Yeh couldn't find two better friends than Ron an' Hermione. Course – they're always squabbling, but that's what kids are like, aren't they? Always findin' something to argue about.
Me, I've only had a few people who've stayed with me through thick an' thin. Those three are probably my best friends, save fer Dumbledore. Dumbledore has always bin there fer me, he's a brilliant Wizard an' that's high praise in the Wizarding world. Course – he's worried at the moment, he can tell somethin' bad's comin', can't he? Know's everything, that Dumbledore – a keener eye you're not likely to find on a man a quarter of his age. We're all goin' ter have to be strong. Yeh know, we're goin' to be alrigh' in the end with the likes of Harry, Ron and Hermione on our side. I've never met three braver kids.
An' just think of all the things I'm goin' ter have ter do! It's a bit worryin' really – all the responsibility I've bin given. I'd do anything ter stop You-Know-Who an' his supporters, though. That Malfoy an' his horrible friends deserve ter pay fer all they've done. I won't say anything against Dumbledore, but rubbish like their children's got no place at Hogwarts. I hope Dumbledore realises that before it's too late, they're trouble, them.
Anyway, I better be on my way – I've horses ter tend to and grounds ter keep. I only hope I can do what's needed when the time arrives. An' it's comin' soon, even a fool can tell that.

from: http://www.cosforums.com/archive/index.php?t-27523.html


ALICE IN WONDERLAND

A monologue from the book by Lewis Carroll

NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. London: MacMillan and Co., 1866.

ALICE: [Angrily] Why, how impolite of him. I asked him a civil question, and he pretended not to hear me. That's not at all nice. [Calling after him] I say, Mr. White Rabbit, where are you going? Hmmm. He won't answer me. And I do so want to know what he is late for. I wonder if I might follow him. Why not? There's no rule that I mayn't go where I please. I--I will follow him. Wait for me, Mr. White Rabbit. I'm coming, too! [Falling] How curious. I never realized that rabbit holes were so dark . . . and so long . . . and so empty. I believe I have been falling for five minutes, and I still can't see the bottom! Hmph! After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs. How brave they'll all think me at home. Why, I wouldn't say anything about it even if I fell off the top of the house! I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time. I must be getting somewhere near the center of the earth. I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny that would be. Oh, I think I see the bottom. Yes, I'm sure I see the bottom. I shall hit the bottom, hit it very hard, and oh, how it will hurt!

from: http://www.monologuearchive.com/c/carroll_001.html


HENRY V

A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare
[ http://www.theatredatabase.com/16th_century/william_shakespeare_001.html ]

BOY: As young as I am, I have observed these three swashers. I am boy to all three; but all three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and red-faced; by the means whereof 'a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks word and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath heard that men of few words are the best men, and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward; but his few bad words are matched with as few good deeds, for 'a never broke any man's head but his own, and that was against a post when he was drunk. They will steal anything, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three halfpence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel. I knew by that piece of service the men would carry coals. They would have me as familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or handkerchers; which makes much against my manhood, if I should take from another's pocket to put into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them and seek some better service. Their villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up.

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