If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

I’m not a freak. That’s a horrible thing to say." "That’s where you’re going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that’s what you two are..." "You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?