You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Would you like me to [kill you] now? asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-She's foul enough to be one...Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
You might belong in Hufflepuff,Where they are just and loyal,Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,And unafraid of toil.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a m...
Death is just life's next big adventure.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity,...
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying th...
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself...
I received free health care.
Harry! said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. Simply splendid to see you, old boy-Marvelous, said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. Absolutely spiffing....