Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Time is Galleons, little brother.