That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

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.

How’s Norbert doin’?” Norbert?” Charlie laughed. “The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.” Wha—Norbert’s a girl?

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.