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Jacob: Tell me — has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?

Newt: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.


J.K. Rowling

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J.K. ROWLING Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"

"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
J.K. ROWLING He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip...
J.K. ROWLING Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri...
J.K. ROWLING The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
J.K. ROWLING But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
J.K. ROWLING Giggling should be made illegal.
J.K. ROWLING OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble st...
J.K. ROWLING There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
J.K. ROWLING Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me...
J.K. ROWLING The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ...
J.K. ROWLING Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint...
J.K. ROWLING Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
J.K. ROWLING Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
J.K. ROWLING Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."

"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
J.K. ROWLING