I'm not blamin' yeh … but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two'd value yer friend more'n broomsticks or rats… — J.K. Rowling

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

And they didn't desert me at all. Instead, they did something for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi.