Top 100 Quotes About J K Rowling
#1. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
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#2. Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.
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#3. I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don't think that's healthy.
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#6. Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.
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#7. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...
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#8. Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
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#9. Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus - ha ha ha -
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#10. They weren't in a room, as he had supposed. They were in a corridor. The forbidden corridor on the third floor. And now they knew why it was forbidden.
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#11. And anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it?
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#12. Quidditch Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Tales of Beedle the Bard
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#13. Harry could not stand this, he could not stand being Harry anymore. . . . He had never felt more trapped inside his own head and body, never wished so intensely that he could be somebody - anybody - else. . .
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#15. RON: Only- friends. Funny word- friends. Not that funny. Just a word, really. Friends. Friend. Funny friend. You, my funny friend, my Hermoine. Not that- not my Hermoine, you understand- not MY Hermoine- not MINE- you know, but...
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#16. His heart, which seemed to have swollen to an unnatural size, was thumping loudly under his ribs.
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#17. I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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#18. No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
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#20. Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.
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#21. All the same, we should get to bed," whispered Hermione. "It wouldn't do to oversleep tomorrow."
"No," agreed Ron. "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding.
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#22. Curiosity and even though Dumbledore had walked to the door
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#23. I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.
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#24. Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's eyes.
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#25. Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone, said Ron.
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#26. J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
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#27. She remembered telling a sturdy little girl in guidance that looks did not matter, that personality was much more important. What rubbish we tell children [ ... ].
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#28. There's the silver lining I'm looking for.
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#29. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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#31. Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.
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#32. It looks like a Grim if you do this," Seamus Finnigan said, with his eyes almost shut, "but it looks more like a donkey from here," he said, leaning to the left.
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#33. . . . and tiny little ears," Luna was saying, "a bit like a hippo's, Daddy says, only purple and hairy. And if you want to call them, you have to hum; they prefer a waltz, nothing too fast. . . ." Looking
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#34. DELPHI/HERMIONE: What have you done? SCORPIUS/HARRY: I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has - in all my years on this planet - never been a particularly dangerous activity. The
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#35. Parminder's rage crashed over her like a tidal wave, dragging Sukhvinder with it, so that she was unable to find her feet or right herself.
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#36. You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.
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#37. Never thought I'd live ter see the Triwizard Tournament played again!
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#38. I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.
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#39. Too late now. Three. Two. One. Molliare! He
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#40. THE JOURNEY FROM PLATFORM NINE AND THREE-QUARTERS H
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#42. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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#43. You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
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#44. There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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#45. Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini
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#46. He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.
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#47. Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
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#48. This is all your fault," George said angrily to Wood. "'Get the Snitch or die trying,' what a stupid thing to tell him -
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#49. But Hogwarts is hidden," said Hermione, in surprise. "Everyone knows that ... well, everyone who's read Hogwarts, A History, anyway." "Just you, then," said Ron.
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#50. There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry," said Dumbledore's voice. "On the contrary . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength." Harry
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#51. Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."
"What d'you mean?" said Harry.
"You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?
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#52. By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You
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#53. It is our choices that define who we are, not our abilities.
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#54. Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.
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#55. I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
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#56. Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand again.
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#57. Er-my-nee, Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them.
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#58. Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor.
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#60. Harry and Ron had barely finished their third helpings of Christmas pudding when Hermione ushered them out of the Hall to finalise their plans for the evening.
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#63. All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And
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#65. Like many people who feel themselves to be insignificant, even laughable, Quirrell had a latent desire to make the world sit up and notice him. Quirrell
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#67. But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here ... and you're in my power ... I'm the one with the wand ... you're at my mercy ...
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#68. You're scary when you're in a good mood, you know that ?
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#69. Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.
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#71. Yeah, we'll call you," muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, "If we ever need someone mental.
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#72. Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
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#73. Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.
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#74. She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ...
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#75. Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare -
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#76. She often felt lonely and drained these days, shuttling between her husband and son, who seemed to exist entirely independently, as alien to each other as landlord and lodger.
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#78. Rock bottom became the solid foundation of what I built my life
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#79. In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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#80. I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.
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#81. Go on, have a pasty, said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).
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#82. It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
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#83. Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?
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#84. He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.
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#85. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.
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#86. It was Hagrid, Ron. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago.
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#87. Oh, most think he's barking, the potty wee lad, but some are more kindly and think he's just sad, but Peevesy knows better and says that he's mad.
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#88. At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.
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#89. So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.
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#90. You do realize, don't you, that there's probably no more dangerous place in the whole world for us to be right now than
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#91. Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war!
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#92. He had always called her "Krys," which nobody else had ever done. She had liked being Krys.
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#93. It's no wonder I can't get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they're tight.
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#94. Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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#97. Hufflepuff is a pushover. Last time we played them, Harry caught the Snitch in about five minutes,
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#98. It's best to know what the enemy are saying.
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#99. There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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#100. 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.
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