Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out!

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

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.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.