If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-" "Or twice-" "A minute-" "All summer-" "Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.