Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .

I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night,” said Ron. “What d’ya think that’s gonna mean?””Probably that you’re going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something,” said Harry.

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

I can’t give a Professor love!

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange...

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes — her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green — exactly the...

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore’s feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff’s furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

Ron: [mimicking Hermione] “It’s Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR.” She’s a nightmare, honestly. It’s no wonder she hasn’t got any friends!

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet...

You’d think people had better things to gossip about,” said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. “Three Dementor attacks in a week, and...

And this is Nymphadora-“”Don’t call me Nymphadora, Remus,” said the young witch with a shudder. “It’s Tonks.””-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only,” finished Lupin.”So would you if your fool of...

But you’re dead,” said Harry.”Oh yes,” said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.”Then…I’m dead too?””Ah,” said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. “That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.”They looked at each other,...

But if it matters to you, you’ll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account.””Really?””It did for me,” said Harry.He had never told any of his children that...

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every...

Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I’ll be in Slytherin, all our family have been — imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I’d leave, wouldn’t you?

Yeh don’ have ter be ashamed of what yeh are.

It’s leviOsa, not levioSA!

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

How do you feel, Georgie?” whispered Mrs. Weasley.George’s fingers groped for the side of his head.”Saintlike,” he murmured.”What’s wrong with him?” croaked Fred, looking terrified. “Is his mind affected?””Saintlike,” repeated George, opening his eyes and...

Don’t talk to your mother like that.

Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at...

Don’t put your wand there, boy! … Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that...

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore’s face as he stared down at the unconscious form...

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!

Come, daddy, Harry doesn’t want to talk to us right now. He’s just to polite to say it”~Luna Lovegood

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

Ron’s indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

I think so,’ said Professor McGonagall dryly, ‘we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

Okay,” said Harry, staring at it, “Pear Drop. Er – Licorice Wand. Fizzing Whizbee. Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum. Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans… oh no, he doesn’t like them, does he?… oh just open, can’t...

Der Schmerz, den wir alle über diesen Verlust empfinden, erinnert mich, erinnert uns, daran, dass, obgleich wir von verschiedenen Orten kommen und verschiedene Sprachen sprechen, unsere Herzen gemeinsam schlagen. Im Licht der jüngsten Ereignisse sind...

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

After all this time?””Always…

I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter… or at least, most minds are…

I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.