He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

One can never have enough socks

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.