I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.

Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?" "Sorry, George, dear." "Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.