She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wis...
Said Hufflepuff, I'll teach the lot,And treat them just the same.
Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.
Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?
Oh, I'm going to Mundungus Fletcher!
Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
It real, isn’t it? It’s not a joke? Petunia says you’re lying to me. Petunia says there isn’t a Hogwarts. It real, isn’t it?It’s real for us, said Snape. Not for her.
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?Yes.You called her a liar?Yes.You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?Yes.Have a biscuit, Potter.
INT. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CLASS—FOURTEEN YEARS PREVIOUSLY—DAYIt is Boggart time. DUMBLEDORE supervises the line of teenagers advancing to try their luck. Riddikulus—Riddikulus—gusts of hilari...
I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
I see you are —Dumbledore’s man through and through, said Harry. That’s right.
I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensn...
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
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...
Crackers! said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.
But Death was cunning.
Authority figures always attract trouble
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.