Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done!

As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them. "Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?" "Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye!

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.