But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party,” said Fred. “He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes,...

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent,...

He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

Killing rips the soul apart.

Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!

Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho’s voice echoing in his ears with every step he took… ‘Cedric – Cedric Diggory’ . He had been starting to quite like...

Spiders… the spiders… they want me to tap-dance. And I don’t want to tap-dance!

And anyway, life’s too short….

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

Well, I certainly don’t,” said Percy sanctimoniously. “I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days.” “Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in...

Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George’s shop?”How did you…?”Harry, please. You’re talking to the man...

The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they’re called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – “”Plumbers?”” – exactly, yes, but of course they’re flummoxed.

We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to...

Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

No, Harry, you listen,” said Hermione. “We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago – years, really.

Hagrid: You’re a wizard, Harry.Harry: I’m a what?

This is night, Diddykins. That’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

Everythin’ seems ter happen ter you, doesn’ it?

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity.”No,” she said, her voice quivering with anger, “but I will write to your mother.

But Death was cunning.

Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

Orange, Longbottom.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

Oh, just your expression,” she said.Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the...

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

Nobody’s ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any idea what you said, Harry.

I know how to use a fellytone now.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are...

A red-gold glow burst suddenly across the enchanted sky above them as an edge of dazzling sun appeared over the sill of the nearest window. The light hit both of their faces at the same...

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not...

And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing....

Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve tried a few simple spells just for practice and it’s all worked for me. I’ve learned all our course books by heart, of course.

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before…and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow.”I’ve got to go back, haven’t I?””That is up to you.””I’ve got a choice?””Oh yes.” Dumbledore smiled...

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.

Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out oftheir way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, “Make way forthe Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through ……Percy...

Anything is possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione’s drink and thrust it up her nose.

Scared?” Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn’t hear him.”You wish.” said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don’t want Harry dead. But I...

I don’t want to stay here overnight,’ said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. ‘I want to find McLaggen and kill him.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be