Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

What's life without a little risk?

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

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.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry 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.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

You can become good at procrastinating your opportunities by giving flimsy excuses. But never forget that it is rather your success that you are skipping away.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.