But you would think, wouldn't you, that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt? - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

Up off your knees now and shatter the average.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

You can do anything you like, it's all fiction.

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.