Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

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.

And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.