Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.