As he passed gleaming wooden door after gleaming wooden door, each bearing a small plaque with the owner’s name and occupation upon it, the might of the Ministry, its complexity, its impenetrability, seemed to force itself upon him so that the plan he had been carefully concocting with Ron and Hermione over the past four weeks seemed laughably childish.

Nobody worried that it would rain on the vegetable briyani or the muah chee man.

Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred.

[…] affirmative action has been oversimplified, politicized, hyperracialized, and blackened by whitestream American political and popular culture.