There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-" "By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box. The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!