“Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid.”“I don’t —”“I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.“Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Did you kiss?” asked Hermione briskly.Ron sat up so fast that he sent his ink bottle flying all over the rug. Disregarding this completely he stared avidly at Harry.”Well?” he demanded.Harry looked from Ron’s expression of mingled curiosity and hilarity to Hermione’s slight frown, and nodded.”HA!”Ron made a triumphant gesture with his fist an went into a raucous peal of laughter that made several timid-looking second years over beside the window jump. A reluctant grin spread over Harry’s face as he watched Ron rolling around on the hearthrug. Hermione gave Ron a look of deep disgust and returned to her letter.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Don’t let Ron see what’s on those Slytherin’s badges,” she whispered urgently.Harry looked questioningly at her, but she shook her head warningly; Ron had just ambled over to them, looking lost and desparate.”Good luck, Ron,” said Hermione, standing on tiptoe and kissing him on the cheek. “And you, Harry –“Ron seemed to come to himself slightly as they walked back across the Great Hall. He touched the spot on his face where Hermione had kissed him, looking puzzled, as though he was not quite sure what had just happened.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.”
— J.K. Rowling
“He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”
— J.K. Rowling
“We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?”
— J.K. Rowling
“Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Outside the Apothecary, Hagrid checked Harry’s list again. ‘Just yer wand left — oh yeah, an I still haven’t got yeh a birthday present.’ Harry felt himself go red. ‘You don’t have to –‘ ‘I know I don’t have to. Tell yeh what, I’ll get yer animal.”
— J.K. Rowling
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.”
— J.K. Rowling
“You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It’s time you learned some respect!”It’s time you earned it,’ said Harry.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”
— J.K. Rowling
“We were young, thoughtless – carried away with our own cleverness”
— J.K. Rowling
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…”
— J.K. Rowling
“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h”
— J.K. Rowling
“Aren’t you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?””What’s the point?” said Ron. “You know it by heart, we can just ask you.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”
— J.K. Rowling
“…what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?””What of it?””Well, how can that be real?””Prove that it is not,” said Xenophilius.Hermione looked out”
— 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
“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”
— J.K. Rowling
“The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow.”I’ve got to go back, haven’t I?””That is up to you.””I’ve got a choice?””Oh yes.” Dumbledore smiled at him. “We are in King’s Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let’s say…board a train.””And where would it take me?””On,” said Dumbledore simply.”
— J.K. Rowling
“It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.”
— J.K. Rowling
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” ? J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixtags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black”
— J.K. Rowling
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
— J.K. Rowling
“You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we’ve got Fudge, pretending everything’s lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we’ve got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you’ve got ‘The Chosen One’ working for you!”
— J.K. Rowling
“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
— J.K. Rowling
“It doesn’t matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be…”
— J.K. Rowling
“The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.”
— J.K. Rowling