“I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.”

“I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.”

“Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!”

“I hope there's pudding!”

“I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.”

“Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away, up the stairs.“What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.“Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.“But why’s she got to go to the library?”“Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”

“I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.”