Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?
Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.
LETA Oh, Newt. You never met a monster you couldn’t love.
Ron,” said Hermione in a dignified voice, dipping the point of her quill into her ink pot, “you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it’s own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one.
What is life without a little risk?” -Sirius Black.
I did my waiting! Twelve years of it, in Azkaban!
Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace – a palace of love.
It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.
Worrying means you suffer twice.
Training for the ballet, Potter?
Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten Fred on the ankle as he pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner. Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with small wings glued to its back, it glowered down at them all, the ugliest angel Harry had ever seen, with a large bald head like a potato and rather hairy feet.
I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return.