J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling

"I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. "Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood."There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls."Give me Harry Potter," said Voldemort's voice, "and they shall not be harmed. Give me Harry Potter and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter and you will be rewarded."You have until midnight."The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him forever in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! Potter's there. Someone grab him!"Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves."Thank you, Miss Parkinson." said Professor Mc Gonagall in a clipped voice."You will leave the Hall first with Mr. Filch. If the rest of your House could follow."
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"I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. "Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood."There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls."Give me Harry Potter," said Voldemort's voice, "and they shall not be harmed. Give me Harry Potter and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter and you will be rewarded."You have until midnight."The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him forever in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! Potter's there. Someone grab him!"Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves."Thank you, Miss Parkinson." said Professor Mc Gonagall in a clipped voice."You will leave the Hall first with Mr. Filch. If the rest of your House could follow."
J.K. Rowling
"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."
J.K. Rowling
"The Death Eaters were waiting for us,” Harry told her. “We were surrounded the moment we took off — they knew it was tonight — I don’t know what happened to anyone else, four of them chased us, it was all we could do to get away, and then Voldemort caught up with us —”He could hear the self-justifying note in his voice, the plea for her to understand why he did not know what had happened to her sons, but —“Thank goodness you’re all right,” she said, pulling him into a hug he did not feel he deserved.“Haven’t go’ any brandy, have yeh, Molly?” asked Hagrid a little shakily. “Fer medicinal purposes?”She could have summoned it by magic, but as she hurried back toward the crooked house, Harry knew that she wanted to hide her face."
J.K. Rowling
"You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve"
J.K. Rowling
"...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness."
J.K. Rowling
"I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read."
J.K. Rowling
"Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]"
J.K. Rowling
"Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve"
J.K. Rowling
"Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters."
J.K. Rowling
"I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy."
J.K. Rowling
"What's life without a little risk?"
J.K. Rowling
"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."
J.K. Rowling
"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."
J.K. Rowling
"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."
J.K. Rowling
"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."
J.K. Rowling
"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."
J.K. Rowling
"Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it."
J.K. Rowling
"I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them."
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"Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment."
J.K. Rowling
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
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