Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?