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The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. — J.K. Rowling

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. — J.K. Rowling

Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate! — J.K. Rowling

It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think. — J.K. Rowling

Psychedelic spectacles from the middle of The Quibbler. No point now we've — J.K. Rowling

Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? — J.K. Rowling

Help only comes to those who ask for it. — J.K. Rowling

The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. — J.K. Rowling

You're just as sane as I am.' Smiling — J.K. Rowling

You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done! — J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry — J.K. Rowling

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — J.K. Rowling

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go. — J.K. Rowling

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. — J.K. Rowling

It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - — J.K. Rowling

Harry tried every variation of 'I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you' that he could think of for a whole hour, at — J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter is greater by far than Dobby knew!" he sobbed. "Farewell, Harry Potter! — J.K. Rowling

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really. — J.K. Rowling

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. — J.K. Rowling

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. — J.K. Rowling

Slave labor," said Hermione, breathing hard through her nose. "That's what made this dinner. Slave labor." And she refused to eat another bite. — J.K. Rowling

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real. — J.K. Rowling

Voldemort put a bit of himself in me? Harry said, thunderstruck. — J.K. Rowling

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck? — J.K. Rowling

First sign of madness, talking to your own head. — J.K. Rowling

Oh, Ron, what's it to you if my schedule's a bit full?" Hermione snapped. "I told you, I've fixed it all with Professor McGonagall. — J.K. Rowling

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! — J.K. Rowling

God Rest Ye Merry, Hippogriffs" at — J.K. Rowling

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — J.K. Rowling

The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. — J.K. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. — J.K. Rowling

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second — J.K. Rowling

P.S. I enjoy acid pops. — J.K. Rowling

Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods! — J.K. Rowling

WHO HAD TO GET PAST DRAGONS AND SPHINXES AND EVERY OTHER FOUL THING LAST YEAR? WHO SAW HIM COME BACK? WHO HAD TO ESCAPE FROM HIM? ME! — J.K. Rowling

The true master of the Elder Wand was Draco Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

he had had a family. — J.K. Rowling

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes. — J.K. Rowling

Prongs rode again last night ... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night ... You found him inside yourself. — J.K. Rowling

We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts? — J.K. Rowling

At this precise moment in time, I take no pleasure in being right. — J.K. Rowling

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. — J.K. Rowling

Yoooou!" she howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. "Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh! — J.K. Rowling

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You — J.K. Rowling

Would he ever have the strength to stop looking? — J.K. Rowling

It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course. — J.K. Rowling

Who continued their new policy of feigning deafness whenever Harry mentioned his Malfoy-Is-a-Death-Eater theory. — J.K. Rowling

from yet another pocket inside his overcoat he pulled an owl - a real, live, rather ruffled-looking owl - a long quill, and a roll of parchment. — J.K. Rowling

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have
made me do it, or prevented me from doing it. — J.K. Rowling

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities ... like the ability to behave myself. — J.K. Rowling

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. — J.K. Rowling

Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven. — J.K. Rowling

Snape: How?
Scorpius: Bravely.
Snape: Who?
Scorpius: Voldemort.
Snape: How very irritating. — J.K. Rowling

You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil. — J.K. Rowling

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. — J.K. Rowling

We can't go in there at night - there's all sorts of things in there - werewolves, I heard. — J.K. Rowling

Crabbe or Goyle - or, come to think of it, another Death Eater, he'll have loads better cronies than Crabbe and Goyle now he's joined up — J.K. Rowling

Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life, Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting. — J.K. Rowling

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. — J.K. Rowling

Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. — J.K. Rowling

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig... — J.K. Rowling

House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales — J.K. Rowling

I thought yer'd hold yer friends higher than broomsticks and rats — J.K. Rowling

Harry, he's taking over the Ministry and the newspapers and half the Wizarding world! Don't let him inside your head too! — J.K. Rowling

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — J.K. Rowling

Always use the proper name of things. Fear of s name increased fear of the thing itself. — J.K. Rowling

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling

jinxes when they want to make — J.K. Rowling

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

Voldemort,' said Riddle softly, 'is my past, — J.K. Rowling

spasm of horror, which — J.K. Rowling

the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent. — J.K. Rowling

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive. — J.K. Rowling

Come . . . come to me. . . . Let me rip you. . . . Let me tear you. . . . Let me kill you. . . . — J.K. Rowling

The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it. Boa Constrictor, Brazil. — J.K. Rowling

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. — J.K. Rowling

LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — J.K. Rowling

You're not a bad person. You're a very good person. Who bad things have happened to. — J.K. Rowling

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

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that? — J.K. Rowling

Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it. — J.K. Rowling

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. — J.K. Rowling

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle. — Cassandra Clare

How's Norbert doin'?"
Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
Wha - Norbert's a girl? — J.K. Rowling

I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his - — J.K. Rowling

Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts. — J.K. Rowling

use the boy. use the boy. — J.K. Rowling

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left - "
"Don't talk to your mother like that. — J.K. Rowling

I don't think about who the audience is for my books. — J.K. Rowling

I'll show them ... it'll really wipe the smiles off their faces if we win."
"Just as long as we're not wiping you off the field," said Hermione. — J.K. Rowling

You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. — J.K. Rowling

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was. — J.K. Rowling

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength — J.K. Rowling

An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye, glistened from a golden chain around his neck. — J.K. Rowling

Intelligence'?" repeated Magorian, as Bane and several others roared with rage and pawed the ground. "We consider that a great insult, human! — J.K. Rowling

Harry couldn't blame them. — J.K. Rowling

Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. — J.K. Rowling

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. — J.K. Rowling