You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

But Death was cunning.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.