No, I’m fine,? said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.
However,? said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, ’you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.
You don’t know what I’m capable of, you don’t know what I’ve done!
Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good...
She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.
Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!
Probably that you’re going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.
All was well.
As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
It was his own grief turned magically to song.
Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
The inner eye does not see upon command.
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.
No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.
I take my hat off to you – or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.