I've laid my friends bare.

That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.