You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains.

Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

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.