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.

Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.

That’s what they should teach us here. How girls’ brains work… It would be more useful than divination, anyway…

Dumbledore’s man through and through, aren’t you Potter?” “Yeah I am,” said Harry. “Glad we straightened that out.

Give her hell from us, Peeves.”And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George...

Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading,” said Ron, but very quietly.

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

Listen, Harr,y can I have a go on it? Can I?””I don’t think anyone should ride that broom just yet!” said Hermoine shrilly.Harry and Ron looked at her.”What d’you think Harry’s going to do with...

Merlin’s pants!” shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room.”Merlin’s pants?” repeated Ron, looking amused. “She must be really upset.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

And it’s Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor, it was a joke…

Merlin’s beard.

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. ‘Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise…