This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I will not calm down!

Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!

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

I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.