We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

Time is Galleons, little brother.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.