#rowling

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#future #hope #j-k-rowling #life #rebuild

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #epilogue #harry-potter #hogwarts #humor

You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #family

I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail. . . . Gladys Gudgeon writes weekly. . . . I just wish I knew why. . . .” He paused, looking faintly puzzled, then beamed again and returned to his signing with renewed vigor. “I suspect it is simply my good looks. . . . ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#gilderoy #harry-potter #humor #lockehart #rowling

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #experience

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#badass #dumbledore #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #power

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness... ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#hard-times #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #life #negativity

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#love

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #prisoner-of-azkaban #prison

And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —” “JORDAN!” yelled Professor McGonagall. “Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest — ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #jordan #order-of-the-phoenix #professor-mcgonagall #quidditch