The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does.

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot.

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.