Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?
J. K. RowlingItโs so difficult to describe [depression] to someone whoโs never been there, because itโs not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But itโs that cold absence of feeling โ that really hollowed-out feeling.
J. K. RowlingHe [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasleyโs letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleysโ address in minute writing. โShe did put enough stamps on, then,โ said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasleyโs was a mistake anyone could make.
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