You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .