Don't count your owls before they are delivered. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?''No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns."

"Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore."Avada Kedavra!"

"When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?"

"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."

"I am not worried, Harry,"said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."