Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —