When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.