How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.

You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!