Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.