And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.