Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.