It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.

Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.