“Good sleuthing takes practice,...“So does sex,” came another back-of-the-room comment. We all bit back laughter while Coach pointed a warning finger at the offender.“That won’t be part of tonight’s homework.”

“It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.”

“What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning.Harry threw his new homework diary at him.”

“We mothers have to be part sleuth, I realized.”

“‎When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.”

“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”