At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in! They got in on pure talent!

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

For no very good reason, I have never been fond of the number four, which has always struck me as a rather hard and unforgiving number.

THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.

The little creature on the bed had large, bat-like ears and bulging green eyes the size of tennis balls.

That's not the song it sang when it Sorted us, said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. Sings a different one every year, said Ron. It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one.

MINISTER: Ulick Gamp TERM OF OFFICE: 1707 – 1718 Previously head of the Wizengamot, Gamp had the onerous job of policing a fractious and frightened community adjusting to the imposition of the International Statute of Secrecy. His greatest legacy was to found the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.