I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here

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.

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.