I finally figured out why Voldemort’s face is so flat. He ran into the wrong wall at the train station.

And that was when I saw what Cassidy had done to herself: the gold and red ribbing on her sweater-vest, the matching stripes on her tie, the gray uniform skirt, and the navy blazer draped...

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.

You’ll stay with me?’Until the very end,’ said James.

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

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her...

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...

Is my world turning into Harry Potter’s?!

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they’re...

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness…

Don’t forget to give Neville our love!’ Ginny told James as she hugged him.’Mum! I can’t give a professor love!”But you know Neville-‘James rolled his eyes.’Outside, yeah, but at school he’s Professor Longbottom, isn’t he?...

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

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...

Boys,” said Hermione Granger, “should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!

Self-Forgiveness is the most important wand in all of Diagon Alley™.

Well, obviously, she’s feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then i expect she’s feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can’t work out who she likes best. Then...

No, thanks,” said Harry. “The toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick.” Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he’d said.

Harry―yer a wizard.

He accused me of being Dumbledore’s man through and through.””How very rude of him.””I told him I was.”Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low,...

Hermione had taken his hand again and was gripping it tightly. He could not look at her, but returned the pressure, now taking deep, sharp gulps of the night air, trying to steady himself, trying...

She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family.

First think of the person who lives in disguise,Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,The middle of middle and the end of end?And finally...

Palavras são, na minha nada humilde opinião, nossa inesgotável fonte de magia. Capazes de formar grandes sofrimentos e também de remedia-los.

The plan, which I really hope I fulfilled, is that the reader, like Harry, would gradually discover Ginny as pretty much the ideal girl for Harry. She’s tough, not in an unpleasant way, but she’s...

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair …

The battle is always the same, just with different chapters.

Still here, Faulkner?” Luke sneered.”Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?” I asked.

Great, tell me when you’ve defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

And what use would that be to anyone?

I say to you all, once again — in the light of Lord Voldemort’s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading...

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,...

That’s right.

Yeah, well, passing over Fred’s left buttock —””I beg your pardon?” said Fred’s voice as the twins entered the kitchen.

Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.

Son ingeniosas de verdad, las cosas que inventan los muggles para arreglárselas sin magia.

She wasn’t the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe....

Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.

Let me guess, you’re Harry Potter and this is the school of Hogwarts. If I say Lumos will it light up?

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.