I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here

I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.