Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked..

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it..

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scrib….

There are always loose ends in real life..

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like..

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore..

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent live….

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going..

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.….

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset..

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!.

That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four….

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?.

I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an….

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know,….

He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices….

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity..

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book..

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's ….

He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes though….