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.
And that boys,” yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,“is why you should never go for looks alone!
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.
S’up, Figgy?
Let muggles manage without us!
Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.
Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.
Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
Never,” said Hagrid irritably, “try an’ get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin’ closer’n the moon.
Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.
Bill, don’t look at me – I’m ’ideous.
You saved Dad’s life. If anyone’s got the right to eavesdrop on him, it’s you.
As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.