I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.

He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.