Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.