Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

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.