Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

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

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.