For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. Thatโs a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing thatโs glaring at you has got legs. If it has, itโs safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, thatโs still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
J. K. RowlingWill there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, Iโve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and Iโve done other charity books already.
J. K. RowlingHe had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.
J. K. Rowling