What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.

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

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?