Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.