Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

by J.K. Rowling

He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!”

But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

“Alas, the first thing you ask me, I cannot tell you. Not today. Not now. You will know, one day . . . put it from your mind for now, Harry. When you are older . . . I know you hate to hear this . . . when you are ready, you will know.”