Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.