It's best to know what the enemy are saying.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B

They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!