I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbi….

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains..

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?.

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had h….

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold..

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say..

I like a quiet life, you know me..

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosin….

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best..

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters an….

I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way….

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more m….

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail..

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life..

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you..

It unscrews the other way..

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter..

I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it….