I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.

You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.