Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.