It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the...

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

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no...

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

Hedwig didn’t return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy’s letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry’s and Ron’s were the size of dragon eggs,...

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry’s brain:She’s Ron’s sister.But she’s ditched Dean!She’s still Ron’s sister.I’m his best mate!That’ll make it worse.If I talked to him first-He’d hit you.What if I don’t care?He’s your best...

I never thought I’d hear myself say it, but safety first!

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

You’ve sort of made up for it tonight,’ said Harry. ‘Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.’ ‘That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,’ Ron mumbled.’Stuff like that always...

Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

You, yourself, will never rest until you’ve tried!

Mi ero troppo affezionato a te” spiegò Silente con semplicità. “Tenevo più alla tua felicità che a farti conoscere la verità,più alla tua serenità che al mio piano.Ho agito esattamente come Voldemort si aspetta che...

Well?” Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. “How was it?”Harry considered it for a moment. “Wet,” he said truthfully.Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell.”Because...

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

Yeah, well, food’s one of the five exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfigurations,” said Ron, to general astonishment.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that...

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its...

You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?” said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. “It’s people they feel sorry for....

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

He’s doing you know what!

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really...

Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

You have to be free to fail in this world.

Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.

You’re a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That’s everyone in the family!””What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

Is it true?” he said. “They’re saying all down the train that Harry Potter’s in this compartment. So it’s you, is it?””Yes,” said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of were thickset...

Merry Christmas,” said George. “Don’t go downstairs for a bit.””Why not?” said Ron.”Mum’s crying again,” said Fred heavily. “Percy sent back his Christmas jumper.” [I guess that’s a sweater, though my jury is still out...

I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.

Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!” said Professor McGonagall weakly.

Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there…when your a second away from being murdered or watching...

Yes, but the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters,’ said Sirius with a wry smile.

hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light

Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly’s Most Charming Smile Award. But I don’t talk about that; I didn’t get...

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...