I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a holiday, won't it?

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.