Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.