J. K. Rowling

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

Ron obviously realized that he’d gotten Harry into trouble, because he hadn’t called again.

Draco Malfoy made Dudley Dursley look like a kind, thoughtful and sensitive boy.

Gerroff me! Gerroff me!’ squealed the gnome.

you really?’ said Mr Weasley eagerly. ‘Did it go all right? I-I mean,’ he faltered, as sparks flew from Mrs Weasley’s eyes, ‘that-that was very wrong, boys – very wrong indeed …’

The four school houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

And I would remind you that it is not — prudent — to appear less than fond of Harry Potter, not when most of our kind regard him as the hero who made the Dark Lord disappear

There was a silence broken only by the chink of knives and forks from downstairs and the distant rumble of Uncle Vernon’s voice.