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.

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.