You have to be free to fail in this world.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.