And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.