Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

People who believe in their own potential, and who are driven by purpose, rarely have time to talk about it.

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services