I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.