No thanks,' said Harry. ‘The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it – it might be sick.' Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.

I always felt an outsider.

No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does.

Ron (HP Sorcerer's Stone): Have you gone mad? Are you a witch or not?

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black Mrs.

They're evacuating the younger kids and everyone's meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We're fighting.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Always use the proper name of things. Fear of s name increased fear of the thing itself.

She often felt lonely and drained these days, shuttling between her husband and son, who seemed to exist entirely independently, as alien to each other as landlord and lodger.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.