Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Love is the key to diversity

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.