Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

How thick can you get?

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.