You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.