In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.

He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus.