I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.