We're not learning how to defend ourselves.

How are you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?

...had it not been for his determination to rescue not only Mr. Weasley...

If not... Well, we'll get to that later.

Only Dumbledore made us swear not to tell you anything.

But I told him. I said, "The trick with any beast is to know how to calm him."

Now, I think, therefore, you have the right to know exactly how he died.

You do not, however, have the authority to banish them from the grounds.

You're meddling in things that ought not to be meddled in. It's dangerous.

I will not pay to have some crackpot old fool teach him magic tricks.

Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone. He's not about to steal it.

He will not be going there! We swore when we took him in we'd put a stop to all this rubbish.