Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?" "Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione. "Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.