Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemortโs world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemortโs followers!โ โOf course I havenโt!โ said Harry indignantly. โHe killed my mum and dad!โ โYou are protected, in short, by your ability to love!โ said Dumbledore loudly.
J. K. RowlingI believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.
J. K. RowlingImagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. RowlingI'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
J. K. RowlingMy readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.
J. K. Rowling