I've laid my friends bare.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?

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