So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.
You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts. . . but you cannot deny he's got style.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.
. . . we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.
You don't fall in love. You commit to it.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.