I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.