There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out!

You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.