It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.

I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Merlin’s beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.