We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.

I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from me. One hour.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.