Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains.

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

But she's ditched Dean!

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!