What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter.