As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.

I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.