“Do people ever wonder about why it has been said that the mice shall play when the cat is away?”
“It is very seldom,” the young man said at last, “that dragons ask to do men favours.”“But it is very common,” said the dragon, “for cats to play with mice before they kill them.”
“We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.”
“No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.”
“When mice run, cats give chase.”
“Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love?”