"Why train your animals to be like you?" she often said in a fit of fury. "Or do you wish to prove there really is no difference between them and ..."

- Blacker than the night and, unlike the latter, certainly not lit up by any movement of hand or any merry glint of eye.

“Those are the Black sisters, are they not?” Mafilda Malfoy asked,her eyes like a cat's - sly, attentive, ready for action.

“Or should I say you and Bellatrix future-Malfoy.”