“Potter, you really are just as foolish and preposterously self-absorbed as your father.”
“All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.”
“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!”
“You will be identified as thin-skinned and moody; in reaction you will identify yourself as civilized and sensitive. You will barricade yourself in that preposterous condition known as self-respect.”
“I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...”
“Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.”