McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely honest. I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

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.