NO!”The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

Such lies, Lucius . . .

I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never...

Ginny, listen…I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.””It’s for some stupid noble reason isn’t it?””It’s been like…like something out of someone else’s life these...

And you’d think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn’t. It just- it just makes them dead.

Harry Potter,” he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. “The Boy Who Lived.”None of the Death Eaters moved. They were waiting. Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and...

Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

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 have seen your heart, and it is mine.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

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...

SO WHAT” Harry shouted. “Don’t you understand? If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort’s coming back! Haven’t you heard what it was like when he was trying to take over? There won’t be any...

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.