How’s Norbert doin’?” Norbert?” Charlie laughed. “The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.” Wha—Norbert’s a girl?

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her