Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.