Quotes from J. K. Rowling

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

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain: She's Ron's sister. But she's ditched Dean! She's still Ron's sister. I'm his best mate! That'll make it worse. If I talked to him first- He'd hit you. What if I don't care? He's your best mate!

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

Don't put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Alas! Earwax!

It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.