There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.

Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

Help only comes to those who ask for it.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.