Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

But Snape always seemed to hate me so much.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her