Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!

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

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” “For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.