We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.