Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-