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

I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job.

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does.