I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who di….

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!.

And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry ….

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends..

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives..

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated..

I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-lovi….

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishnes….

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing..

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end u….

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….

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving..

Anyway, members of the Inquisitorial Squad do have the power to dock points so, Granger, I'll have five from you for being rude about our new Headmis….

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something..

Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot ….

I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars..

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to..

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when the….

There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and com….

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here..