You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

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.

Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!

Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.