Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.

Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.

The dementors send their love, Potter!

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.