Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.