But Snape always seemed to hate me so much.

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh. "Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.