Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.
Give her hell from us, Peeves.
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that’s gripping the nation!
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
Accio Brain!
I’m going to keep going until I succeed – or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.
From now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell ‘Die, Ron, Die,’ I’m chucking them in the bin where they belong.
I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.
Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.
But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.