… Hagrid to Harry, Ron and Hermione 5:429 This how it is- this is why you're not in the Order- you don't understand- there are things worth dying for! … Sirius Black to Fred and George Weasley 5:477 Young people are so infernally convinced they are absolutely right about everything. … Hagrid to Harry, Ron and Hermione 5:425 Giants like Karkus… overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things. … Harry to Ron and Hermione 5:327 Never known kids like you three fer knowin' more'n yeh oughta, an' I'm not complimentin' yeh, neither. I just did whatever I could think of, and I nearly always had help… I didn't get through any of that because I was brilliant at DADA, I got through it all because… because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right… but I just blundered through it all. … Sirius to Harry 5:305 I didn't know what I was doing half the time, I didn't plan any of it. The risk would've been what made it fun for James. … Harry to Ron Weasley about Umbridge 5:272 The world isn't (just) split into good people and Death Eaters! … Sirius to Harry 5:302 You're less like your father than I thought. … Sorting hat to studentbody in Harry's fifth year 5:206 I'm not giving her the satisfaction of knowing she's got to me. And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within. Though I must fulfill my duty, and must quarter every year, still I wonder whether sorting may not bring the end I fear… our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes. 5:205 Though condemned I am to split you, still I worry that it's wrong. … Harry to himself after not being selected Prefect 5:167 Said Slytherin… We'll teach just those whose ancestry is Purest, Said Ravenclaw… We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest, said Gryffindor… we'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name, said Hufflepuff… I'll teach the lot and treat them all the same. Book Five Maybe Dumbledore doesn't choose prefects because they've got themselves into a load of dangerous situations… maybe he chooses them for other reasons… Ron must have something you don't.