(excerpt) "Eileen..." No. Don't turn around. Just ignore him; you already know what he'll speak of. "Eileen, please wait one moment. I must speak with you." Eileen Prince turned, reluctantly meeting the gaze of her former teacher and headmaster. Albus Dumbledore.

(excerpt) “Mum, its time for lunch!” Lily called out the kitchen window, grinning ear-to-ear. “And guess what? I made a special dessert as well! I can’t tell you what it is, though. It’s supposed to be a surprise” Rose laughed. Lily’s mouth had chocolate icing smeared all over it. Not wanting to spoil the “surprise”, however, she kept silent.

(excerpt) Regalus’s face reappeared in the doorway. “A letter from Hogwarts has just arrived. Its addressed to you, so I assume that means you’re accepted. Mother will be thrilled. That you’ll be gone this year, that is…”

He’d be lost in the woods, shivering and afraid, and then he’d be running, running so fast that he’d stumble over the tree roots, and then he’d hear howling, and then he’d hear a ravenous panting, like that of a dog but much wilder […] and he’d be left in the dirt along the forest floor, laying crimson-colored mud, and then a wrenching pain in his back, shooting up his spine, and then…But that was five years ago.

A young girl screeched with laughter as the invisible someone tickled her in passing. Seconds later, a boy’s hat flew off his head and danced across the street, hands reaching to grab it and laughter dancing across the crowd as the elusive hat paraded just far enough away from their outstretched fingers.

“Dad! Dad, this way!” Before her flustered father could protest, Lily grabbed him by his coat sleeve and dashed headlong at the barrier.

“Did you see how he twitched at every sneeze?” Sirius whispered to James with a merciless grin.
“You call that a twitch? More like a…um…” James did his own little interpretive twitching fit as Sirius finally cracked, laughing blatantly.

“First off, I must tell you all of a rather new and…rather dangerous…plant that Hogwarts is honored to host near the Forbidden Forest this year."