Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn’t I?” he said heatedly. “I know what went on, all right? And I didn’t get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because — because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right — but I just blundered through it all, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing — STOP LAUGHING!

Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.