I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.

Once again I must ask too much of you, Harry.

Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to — er — 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.