The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.

You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.