Quotes by J.K. Rowling

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

Play to your strengths.I haven’t got any, said Harry, before he could stop himself.Excuse me, growled Moody, you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. Ive met people who dont want to try for fear of failing.

You have to be free to fail in this world.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

Bed rest and a large steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldnt it be follow the butterflies?

Merlins pants!

Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

Potter, you can skin Malfoys shrivelfig.

Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldnt help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sorry as he felt for himself.

Don’t let it worry you, said Ron. It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

The wand picks you, you dont pick the wand.

Why are you worrying about you-know-who?You should be worrying about u-no-poo!The constipation sensation thats gripping the nation!

The fireworks continued to burn and spread all over the school that afternoon. Though they caused plenty of disruption, the other teachers did not seem to mind them very much.Dear, dear, said Professor McGonagall sardonically, as one of the dragons soared around her classroom, emitting loud bangs and exhaling flame. Miss Brown, would you mind running along to the headmistress and informing her that we have an escaped firework in our classroom?Thank you so much, Professor! said Professor Flitwick in his squeaky little voice. I could have got rid of the sparklers myself, of course, but I wasnt sure whether I had the authority...Beaming, he closed the classroom door in Umbridges snarling face.

What an idiot.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!Ron: Hermione, no! Hes no worth it.

Hagrid: Harry -- yer a wizard.Harry: Im a what?