Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there โ the walls and the chairs and the childrenโs pictures on the walls โ meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.
J. K. RowlingGringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide โ except perhaps Hogwarts.
J. K. RowlingDon't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.
J. K. RowlingI think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.
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