Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!

Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.