“Just Muggle-baiting. Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it … Of course, it’s very hard to convict anyone because no Muggle would admit their key keeps shrinking – they’ll insist they just keep losing it. Bless them, they’ll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it’s staring them in the face.”
Athur Weasley, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 3
“Did you really? Did it go alright? I – I mean that – that was very wrong, boys – very wrong indeed …”
Athur Weasley, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 3
“Can you believe our luck? Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
Ron, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 5
“Most unfortunately, you are not in my House and the decision to expel you does not rest with me. I shall go and fetch the people who do have that happy power.”
Snape, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 5
“I must go back to the feast, Minerva, I’ve got to give out a few notices. Come, Severus, there’s a delicious-looking custard tart I want to sample.”
Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 5
“Brilliant! Inspired! What an entrance! Flying a car right into the Whomping Willow, people’ll be talking about that one for years!”
Lee Jordan, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 5
“Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking! “It’s all right for him, he’s an internationally famous wizard already!” But when I was twelve, I was just as much of a nobody as you are now. In fact, I’d say I was even more of a nobody! I mean, a few people have heard of you, haven’t they? All that business with He Who Must Not Be Named! I know, I know, it’s not quite as good as winning Witch Weekly’s Most-Charming-Smile Award five times in a row, as I have – but it’s a start, Harry, it’s a start.”
Lockhart, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 6
“Fame’s a fickle friend, Harry … Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that.”
Lockhart, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 7
“But you would think, wouldn’t you, that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt. I mean, nobody wishes more than I do that it had all been quick and clean, and my head had come off properly, I mean, it would have saved me a great deal pain and ridicule.”
Nearly Headless Nick, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 8
“Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry! Most people would think that’s good and beheaded, but oh no, it’s not enough for Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore.”
Nearly Headless Nick, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 8