There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.