Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.