I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.