Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in? J. K. Rowling More Quotes by J. K. Rowling More Quotes From J. K. Rowling Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness? J. K. Rowling snow-white white snow Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole. J. K. Rowling taken imagination children Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends. J. K. Rowling real use mean Be good now, Potty...Weasel King. J. K. Rowling weasels potty kings The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air. J. K. Rowling air games long Let muggles manage without us! J. K. Rowling muggles manage She's as nutty as squirrel poo. J. K. Rowling nutty squirrels It was not, after all, so easy to die. J. K. Rowling dies easy There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. J. K. Rowling echoes reflection doors Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies. J. K. Rowling eyebrows sight mean An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. J. K. Rowling unbreakable doe mean Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. J. K. Rowling thieves treasure greed Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot. J. K. Rowling knowing air interesting Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again. J. K. Rowling auntie cutting dresses Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything. J. K. Rowling fame He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him. J. K. Rowling rip heart feels Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. J. K. Rowling astonishment yeah law Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes. J. K. Rowling miracle eye heart Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. J. K. Rowling home boys firsts He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself. J. K. Rowling silence listening faces