In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn’t it be “follow the butterflies?

I—I didn’t think—””That,” said Professor McGonagall, “is obvious.

Give her hell from us, Peeves.

Cinderella? Snow White? What’s that? An illness?

You saved Dad’s life. If anyone’s got the right to eavesdrop on him, it’s you.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

Because, sometimes you’ve got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you’ve got to think about the greater good! This is war!

He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And...

Never mind,” said Harry quickly.

Türlü türlü cesaret vardır,” dedi. “Düşmanlarımıza karşı koymak yürekister, ama dostlarımıza karşı koymak da yürek ister.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Don’t talk to me.””Why not?””Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret…

Alas! Earwax!

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,His hair is as dark as a blackboard.I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

All we do is read the stupid textbook,” said Ron.

Hedwig — Hedwig —”But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage.

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

the true master of Death does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing...

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, ‘Well, you know, she’s just a mother.’ And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I...

Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip...

Telephone

Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?” Harry shook his head.”Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror,...

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g’s the...

Ron’s eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living-room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering.

What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron’s, however, wasn’t the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him.

Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do, Potter. I’ve never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students.

Snape’s patronus was a doe,’ said Harry, ‘the same as my mother’s because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that’s gripping the nation!

I… must… not… look… like… a… baboon’s… backside.

If you think I’m going to let six people risk their lives – !”because it’s the first time for all of us,’ said Ron.’This is different, pretending to be me -”Well, none of us really...

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

And from now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell die, Ron, die — I’m just chucking them in the bin where they belong.

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s...

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,’ said Dumbledore’s voice. ‘On the contrary… the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power...

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

La juventud y su agudo agijón de amor

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.