“Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.”

“Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.”

“You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!”

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”

“She seemed to be trying to take in what Kay had said to her: this bizarre, dangerous advice about telling the truth”

“My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.”

“Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.”