It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Don't count your owls before they are delivered."

"And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him."

"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?"

"Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?''How did you...?''Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George."

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