There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

Love is the strongest power there is.

It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

Let’s see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy.” It was a broom cupboard.