If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.