Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.