He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron.

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!