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When one wizard saves another wizard’s life, it creates a certain bond between them
But trust me … the time may come when you will be very glad you saved Pettigrew’s life.’
So you did see your father last night, Harry … you found him inside yourself.’
I used your name but told them to take the gold from Gringotts vault number seven hundred and eleven – my own.
O.W.Ls were Ordinary Wizarding Levels, the examinations Hogwarts students took at the age of fifteen.
‘I’ve decided there are better ways of making a stand about elf rights,’
‘Now … those three curses – Avada Kedavra, Imperius and Cruciatus – are known as the Unforgivable Curses.
The use of any one of them on a fellow human being is enough to earn a life sentence in Azkaban.
‘It’s S – P – E – W. Stands for the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare.’
‘Your Ordinary Wizarding Levels are drawing closer –
‘I’m not running around after him trying to make him grow up!’
‘Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time,’
“Never be ashamed,” my ol’ dad used ter say, “there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.”
If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.’
‘I see no evidence to the contrary!’
Voldemort can offer them much more scope for their powers and their pleasures than you can!
You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore,’
‘But we feel our futures lie outside the world of academic achievement.’
He also felt dimly that this was between himself and Umbridge, a private battle of wills, and he was not going to give her the satisfaction of hearing that he had complained about it.
It felt very odd to be issuing instructions, but not nearly as odd as seeing them followed.
‘Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have,’
‘Do it today or later you’ll pay!’
It has to get worse before it gets better.’
‘He publishes important stories he thinks the public needs to know. He doesn’t care about making money.’
‘but at least my happiness doesn’t depend on Ron’s goalkeeping ability.’
ORDINARY WIZARDING LEVEL.
To say it aloud would be to make it final, absolute, irretrievable.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike