Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

I know how to use a fellytone now.

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.