The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

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

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.