If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all theyโd have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. Thatโd lead โem right! Thatโs all Iโm sayinโ.
J. K. RowlingYou see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.โ โYeah,โ said Harry, โbut you, unlike me, are a git.
J. K. RowlingAre you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?โ asked Scrimgeour. โNo, Iโm not,โ retorted Hermione. โIโm hoping to do some good in the world!
J. K. RowlingBe ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.
J. K. RowlingAnd now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.
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