I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.