The Unknown

'It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness ... nothing more.'

– Albus Dumbledore (Chapter 26, The Cave, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005)

Talking Gargoyles ...

"You don't know where the other talking gargoyles are, do you?" - Ron

"Haven't seen another gargoyle since the one on that plinth disappeared." - Gargoyle

"What happened to it?" - Hermione

"About a year ago some boy flew through here being chased by a dragon - it knocked my friend right over the edge." - Gargoyle

"Er..." - Harry

"Come back and talk to me sometime, won't you? This is a great place for a picnic. Come around any time!" - Gargoyle

"It wasn't your fault, Harry." - Hermione

"Do you think they're all that mental?" - R0n

(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game, 2007)

The Slimeball ...

"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."

"Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git."

"Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor."

"Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball."

- The Marauders (Chapter 14, Snape's Grudge, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999.)

Everything Was Gone ...

Harry saw the mouth move and a flash a green light, and everything was gone.

(Chapter 34, The Forest Again, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007.)

Human Hosepipe ...

"What did she want to talk about Cedric for, anyway? Why does she always want to drag up a subject that makes her act like a human hosepipe?"

- Harry Potter (Chapter 25, The Beetle at Bay, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003.)

Greatness Inspires Envy ...

"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies."

- Lord Voldemort (Chapter 20, Lord Voldemort's Request, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005.)

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley ...

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

(Chapter 1, The Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997.)

It Is Our Choices ...

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- Albus Dumbledore (Chapter 18, Dobby's Reward, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998.)

All Was Well ...

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

(Epilogue, Nineteen Years Later, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007.)

The Mind is Not a Book ...

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be pursued by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter ... or at least, most minds are."

- Severus Snape (Chapter 24, Occlumency, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003.)

Never Go For Looks Alone ...

"And that, boys, is why you should never go for looks alone!"

- Arthur Weasley [about the Veela] (Chapter 8, The Quidditch World Cup, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000.)

What Was There To Be Gained ...

'What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?' said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. 'Only innocent lives, Peter!'

'You don't understand!' whined Pettigrew. He would have killed me, Sirius!'

'THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!' roared Black. 'DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!'


(Chapter 17, Cat, Rat, and Dog, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999.)

Destiny

'Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.'

- J. K. Rowling

You Could Claim That Anything's Real ...

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

- Hermione Granger (Chapter 21, The Tale of the Three Brothers, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007.)

How Girls' Brains Work ...

That's what they should teach us here, he thought, turning over on to his side, how girls' brains work ... it'd be more useful than Divination, anyway.

- Harry Potter (Chapter 21, Eye of the Snake, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003.)

All the Difference in the World ...

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he though, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore new — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.

- Harry Potter (Chapter 23, Horcruxes, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005.)

To Have Been Loved So Deeply ...

'Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realise that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign ... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.'

- Albus Dumbledore (Chapter 17, The Man With Two Faces, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997.)

Socks ...

'Socks are Dobby's favourite, favourite clothes, sir!' he said, ripping off his odd ones and pulling on Uncle Vernon's. 'I has seven now, sir .... But sir ...' he said, his eyes widening, having pulled both socks up to their highest extent, so that they reached to the bottom of his shorts, 'they has made a mistake in the shop, Harry Potter, they is giving you two the same!'

- Dobby [to Harry] (Chapter 23, The Yule Ball, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000)

What a Man's Like ...

'If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.'

- Sirius Black (Chapter 27, Padfoot Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000)