When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.

Death comes for us all in the end.