Quotes from J. K. Rowling

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

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 rabbit.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Time is making fools of us again.

Swish and flick.

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

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

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach. 'Ouch — ow — gerroff! What the — ? Hermione — OW!' You — complete — arse — Ronald — Weasley!" She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on.

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Would it hurt to die?

Give her hell from us, Peeves.