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A good first impression can work wonders

J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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Joanne Jo Murray
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What's that supposed to be anyway? said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes! It's Harry, said George pointing at the back of the picture. Says so on the back. Good likeness, said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.
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Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.
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And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course. How can she be? said Ron in horror. We’re on vacation!
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And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to see Death Eaters fighting those.
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I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.
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Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.
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Killing rips the soul apart.
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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I received free health care.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
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He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together.
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Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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