Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.