And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.