I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .