She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family.

First think of the person who lives in disguise,Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,The middle of middle and the end of end?And finally...

Palavras são, na minha nada humilde opinião, nossa inesgotável fonte de magia. Capazes de formar grandes sofrimentos e também de remedia-los.

The plan, which I really hope I fulfilled, is that the reader, like Harry, would gradually discover Ginny as pretty much the ideal girl for Harry. She’s tough, not in an unpleasant way, but she’s...

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair …

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business.Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape...

Can’t stay long, Mother,” he said. “I’m up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-“”Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?” said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. “You should...

I’ve never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons,” said Luna, sounding mildly interested. “That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Yeah you can have a word,” said Harry savagely. “Good-bye.

I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.

That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and...

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

They moved from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking in the dresser (Ron left the room hurriedly to make a cup of...

Makes a diff’rence, havin’ a decent family,’ he said. ‘Me dad was decent. An’ your mum an’ dad were decent. If they’d lived, life woulda bin diff’rent, eh?”Yeah, I s’pose,’ said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed...

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Aren’t you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?””What’s the point?” said Ron. “You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

I feel I owe you another explanation Harry,” said Dumbledore hesitantly. “You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess…that I rather thought…you had enough responsibility to be going...

You could say sorry,” suggested Harry bluntly. “What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?” muttered Ron.”What did you have to imitate her for?””She laughed at my mustache!””So did I, it was the stupidest...

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words “brain” and “death” in the search box.The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through...

That’s right.

Yeah, well, passing over Fred’s left buttock —””I beg your pardon?” said Fred’s voice as the twins entered the kitchen.

Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.

Son ingeniosas de verdad, las cosas que inventan los muggles para arreglárselas sin magia.

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

The Death Eaters can’t all be pure-blood, there aren’t enough pure-blood wizards left,” said Hermione stubbornly. “I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It’s only Muggle-borns they hate, they’d be quite...

Do I look stupid?” snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Albus Severus,” Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, “you were named for two...

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I’LL KILL YOU, HARRY!

He must have known I’d want to leave you.””No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

No – no – no!” someone was shouting. “No! Fred! No!”And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still...

There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Aaah … when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry…

Do I have to?

Well, on your own head be it!”The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside...

Swish and flick.

Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well – if you must.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,’ Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Such lies, Lucius . . .

Fred and George exchanged looks.”You don’t mind if we don’t kiss you, do you, Ron?” said Fred in a falsely anxious voice. “We could curtsy, if you like,” said George. “Oh, shut up,” said Ron,...

Wenn wir träumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehört.

What do I care how ‘e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If...

Yeah, but the lost diadem,” said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, “is lost, Luna. That’s sort of the point.