To hurt is as human as to breathe.

What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!