“And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.”

“Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

“Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.”

“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song..”

“Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.”

“As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older--Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof.”