If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

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

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

Er-my-nee," Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them.

Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.