I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...”“Yes, they do that, ” said Dumbledore.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

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!

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!" squeaked Dobby angrily.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free.

The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

If I had a girl I'd love to see her in my clothes. It's real romantic.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Marketing is a necessary part of the creative process.

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.