Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!

Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.