We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

How’s Norbert doin’?” Norbert?” Charlie laughed. “The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.” Wha—Norbert’s a girl?

He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.

Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. "How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested.