Whatever house I’m in, I hope she’s not in it.
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.
Three turns should do it.
I’m dying!” Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. “I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!
I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...
When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.
No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling – that really hollowed-out feeling.
Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.
Time is Galleons, little brother.
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
What she did have were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
You’d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up.
Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older – Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof.
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.