The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.