Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

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.

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.