Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

One can never have enough socks

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.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.