Harry Potter: The Complete Collection (1-7)

by J.K. Rowling

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here …

This line breaks my heart every single time. So young, to be fighting so many...

‘Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love. By returning, you may ensure that fewer souls are maimed, fewer families are torn apart. If that seems to you a worthy goal, then we say goodbye for the present.’

‘Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?’

Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snake-like face vacant and unknowing.