You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, b...
Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘sh...
Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
Training for the ballet, Potter?
It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, wi...
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my...
Killing rips the soul apart.
We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader y...
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Yeah, said Ron, and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — ‘there’s no wood,’ .
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have...
But Death was cunning.
Hasn't your experience with the Time-Turner taught you anything, Harry? The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business i...
For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within
It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.