Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!

Authority figures always attract trouble

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.