Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
The inner eye does not see upon command.
Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.
I’m not a freak. That’s a horrible thing to say." "That’s where you’re going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that’s what you two are..." "You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .