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 discord and enmity is ve...
I don't think you're a waste of space.
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 w...
He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.
He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
Do you mean ter tell me, he growled at the Dursleys, that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks...
Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?Only once said Hermione stung. I got you loads more then you got me—I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—Well if you're counting the one wh...
Bill was — there was no other word for it — . He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill’s clothes w...
Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born ot...
Aaah ... said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry...
A letter? repeated Professor McGonagall faintly, sitting back down on the wall. Really Dumbledore, you think you can explain all this in a letter? These people will never understand him! He’ll be famo...
We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU!
We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.
What's life without a little risk?
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.