Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

Boiling with anger at Snape, his desire to do something desperate and risky had increased tenfold in the last few minutes.

‘There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness.

all the bones had been removed from his arm by the incurably inept Professor Lockhart

surreptitiously

Do not forget that Lord Voldemort believes that he alone knows about his Horcruxes.’

‘Yes, this is the place,’ said Dumbledore. ‘How can you tell?’ Harry spoke in a whisper. ‘It has known magic,’ said Dumbledore simply.

He kept up a relentless flow of encouragement all the way back to the castle, and by the time

It’s all this uncertainty with You-Know-Who coming back, people think they might be dead tomorrow, so they’re rushing all sorts of decisions they’d normally take time over. It was the same last time he was powerful, people eloping left right and centre –’

‘toffee eclairs’