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

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!

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.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather.

Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

Let me tell you a few things about regret. There is no end to it. Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.

All things are known to the soul.

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.