or worse; expelled

Malfoy swaggered forward when his name was called and got his wish at once: the hat barely touched his head when it screamed, “SLYTHERIN!”

Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, but Harry didn’t have the faintet idea what a bezoar was. 

even the saddest people smile sometimes 

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live”

chamber of secrets, chapter five; The Whomping Willow; both trolleys hit the barrier and bounced backwards. Ron’s trunk fell off with a loud thump, Harry was knocked off his feet, and Hedwig’s cage bounced onto the shiny floor and she rolled away, shrieking indignantly.

chamber of secrets, chapter six; Gilderoy Lockhart: The Mandrakes didn’t like coming out of the earth, but didn’t seem to want to go back into it either. They squirmed, kicked, flailed their sharp little fists and gnashed their teeth. Harry spent ten whole minutes trying to squash a particularly fat one into a a pot. 

stuttering professor quirrell

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’

my ten year old sister knows me so well!! a handmade harry potter journal for all my notes!!

“At times I forget how much you’ve grown. At times I still see the small boy from the cupboard” 

“it’s obvious isn’t it? we’ll play our way across the room”