Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.