There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.

It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed-out feeling.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.