No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will..

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience..

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared..

I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy..

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning….

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years..

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid..

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —.

Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick").

I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is with what was going on in my life at the ….

The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the sa….

I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter.

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that..

It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel….

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept….

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, t….

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as h….

But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of y….

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that ….

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you..

Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtful….