“Apparently alcohol increases charm and courage by at least ten points.”
“Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.”
“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
“Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.”
“My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.”
“I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.”