The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

You have to be free to fail in this world.