But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

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. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?