Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

The dementors send their love, Potter!

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.