“I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.”

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”

“What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.”

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”

“This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. ”

“The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.”

“DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.”

“When in doubt, go to the library.”

“Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

“Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?”

“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”

“I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.”

“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”

“I wish...I wish I were dead...” “And what use would that be to anyone?”

“Swish and flick.”

“Would it hurt to die?”

“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy tales as a little girl. I certainly didn't believe that kissing frogs would lead me to a prince, or that eating a mysterious apple would poison me, or that with the magical "Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo" I would get a beautiful dress and a pumpkin carriage. I also don't believe that looking in a mirror and saying "Candyman, Candyman, Candyman" will make some awful serial killer come after me. I believe that many children recognize Harry Potter for what it is, fantasy literature. I'm sure there will always be some that take it too far, but that's the case with everything. I believe it's much better to engage in dialog with children to explain the difference between fantasy and reality. Then they are better equipped to deal with people who might have taken it too far.”

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”

“Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?”

“You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”

“You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.”

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

“HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I-WANT-TO-TALK-TO-HARRY-POTTER!”

“Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart.”

“It unscrews the other way.”

“Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.”

“Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.”

“Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.”

“Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?”

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”