They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality..

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows..

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud..

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wi….

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I ….

Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages an….

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….

Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their mome….

Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonag….

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….

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving ….

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….

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right..

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

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . ..

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them..

If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask..

Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both H….

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms wit….

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards..