I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.