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

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.

Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say?... and now he's sending dismembers after you?... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY!

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.