She gave me a certificate for an eight-week course to Clown College as a birthday gift. I'm still experimenting with different ways of painting my face to make it more kid-friendly.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

It's a birthday present to myself.

They gave it me . . . for an un-birthday present.

Outside the Apothecary, Hagrid checked Harry's list again.
'Just yer wand left -- oh yeah, an I still haven't got yeh a birthday present.'
Harry felt himself go red.
'You don't have to --'
'I know I don't have to. Tell yeh what, I'll get yer animal.

I came face to face with 'usual and customary,'