Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.

We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat!

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?