Do you know what I think, Potter?′ said Snape, very quietly. “I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.
Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?
Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn’t it?
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
You see what you expect to see, Severus.
Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy – Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you’ll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.
Death comes for us all in the end.
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.
At least my happiness doesn’t depend on Ron’s goalkeeping ability.
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.
There are much more terrible things than physical injury.
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.