Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.

If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.