It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

I’m not a freak. That’s a horrible thing to say." "That’s where you’re going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that’s what you two are..." "You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.