It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far — something that neither your parents, nor Neville’s parents, ever achieved.