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J.K. Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Yate, England.
* She studied French and Classics at the University of Exeter.
* After graduating, she moved to Portugal to teach English.
* She married and had a daughter, but her husband died in a car accident.
* She returned to the UK with her daughter and lived on welfare while she wrote the Harry Potter series.
* The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997 and became an instant success.
* The series has sold over 500 million copies and been translated into 80 languages.
* Rowling has won numerous awards for her work, including the Hugo Award and the Locus Award.
* She is now one of the richest women in the world.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

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You haven't got a letter on yours, George observed. I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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"I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable."Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

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I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!

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Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

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Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

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You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

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Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

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What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

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"Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

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I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...Yes, they do that, said Dumbledore.

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Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

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He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...

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Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

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Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always," said Snape.

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I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

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Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

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Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...

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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

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I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am-Luna Lovegood

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I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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