And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.