Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to — er — 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.