Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?Girls don't often ask questions like that, said Hermione.Well, they should! said Harry forcefully.
Well, usually when a person shakes their head, said McGonagall coldly, they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans...
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
Well, I certainly don't, said Percy sanctimoniously. I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days. Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, e...
We have also heard within the last few hours that Rubeus Hagrid--all three of them gasped, and so nearly missed the rest of the sentence--well-known gamekeeper at Hogwarts School, has narrowly escaped...
Was it - was she making a real prediction?'Dumbledore looked mildly impressed.'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of...
Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?
Trust me, he said. I know what I'm doing... or at least -- he strolled confidently to the door -- Felix does.
Tina: Tell me the truth — was that everything that came out of the case?
This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating...
This boy will be famous. There won't be a child in our world who doesn't know his name.
They’re off, and the big excitement this match is the Firebolt that Harry Potter is flying for Gryffindor. According to Which Broomstick, the Firebolt’s going to be the broom of choice for the nationa...
They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retire...
There’s a way of doing it! Hermione said crossly. There just has to be! She seemed to be taking the library’s lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her be...
There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what...
There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.
The three of them fell silent. After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice. Do you think we should go and Hagrid about it all? That’d be a cheerful visit, sa...
The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest...
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.