The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

I scared Stephen King.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could.

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.