“No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”

“What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.”

“Wand of elder, never prosper.”

“I wished for my fairy godmother, the good witch of the north, or some other bitch with a wand.”

“A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.”

“God bless you butterfly, because now I'm claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind”