There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could.

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.