Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
It's going to be all right, sir, Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don...
It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.
It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father'...
If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.
I'm not going anywhere! said Harry fiercely. One of my best friends is Muggle-born; she'll be first in line if the Chamber really has been opened...
I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spo...
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 knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.
I am not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.
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...
Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere...
Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...
Harry -- yer a wizard.
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid.I don’t —I cared about you too much,...
Did you kiss? asked Hermione briskly.Ron sat up so fast that he sent his ink bottle flying all over the rug. Disregarding this completely he stared avidly at Harry.Well? he demanded.Harry looked from...
Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!