Giggling should be made illegal.

There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.