If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.

Three turns should do it.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.