Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you fin... - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive."

"Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats."

"Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice,"he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me."

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."