The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!

Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds. "And are you tempted to join him?" "No," said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur's and Roger's retreating figures. "I am not such a coward." "No," agreed Dumbledore. You are a braver man by far than Igot Karkaroff. You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..." He walked away, leaving Snape looking stricken.

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.