I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive."

"It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love."

"The thing about growing up with Fred and George,"said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."

"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."

"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit."