Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is with what was going on in my life at the time. I was mourning the loss of this world that I had written for so long and loved so much. I was also mourning the retreat it had been from - from ordinary life, which it has been. And it forced me to look back at 17 years of my life and remember things.

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.