Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.

'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me