Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.

Help only comes to those who ask for it.