Die besten Zitate von Joanne K. Rowling

Sport ist ein wichtiges Schulfach, darum habe ich Quidditch so einen hohen Stellenwert in Hogwarts gegeben. Ich war immer schlecht in Sport, deshalb habe ich Harry ein Talent gegeben, dass ich selbst gerne gehabt hätte. Wer würde nicht gerne fliegen können?

Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Magie verursacht genauso viele Schwierigkeiten, wie sie beseitigt.

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

Powerful infatuations can be induced by the skilful potioneer, but never yet has anyone managed to create the truly unbreakable, eternal, unconditional attachment that alone can be called Love.

Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

Ob du wieder einmal die Bücher aufschlägst, oder dir die Filme anschaust, Hogwarts wird dich immer Zuhause willkommen heißen.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Am wichtigsten ist es, so viel wie möglich zu lesen. Dadurch erlangt man ein Verständnis, was gutes Schreiben ausmacht und erweitert seinen Wortschatz.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Once upon a time, there was a tiny country called Cornucopia, which had been ruled for centuries by a long line of fair-haired kings. The king at the time of which I write was called King Fred the Fearless. He'd announced the ‘Fearless’ bit himself, on the morning of his coronation, partly because it sounded nice with 'Fred', but also because he'd once managed to catch and kill a wasp all by himself, if you didn't count five footmen and the boot boy.

Manchmal kommt die Dunkelheit von unerwarteten Orten.

Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Death comes for us all in the end.

Ich habe unter Depressionen gelitten, ich weiß wie sich das anfühlt, es ist eine Neigung von mir. Schreiben hilft mir damit.

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Es ist unmöglich ein fehlerfreies Leben zu führen. Außer wenn man so vorsichtig lebt, dass man gar nicht erst richtig gelebt hat - was der größte Fehler überhaupt wäre.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Ich möchte als jemand erinnert werden, der das Beste gemacht hat aus den Talenten die er hatte.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Das Internet ist ein Fluch und ein Segen für Teenager.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Ich glaube, dass magische Dinge passieren können, wenn man gute Bücher liest.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.

What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

I do believe that something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Jede Sekunde, die er atmete, der Geruch von Gras, die kühle Luft auf seinem Gesicht, alles war so kostbar: der Gedanke, dass Menschen Jahre um Jahre hatten, Zeit verschwenden konnten, so viel Zeit, dass sie lang wurde, während er sich an jede Sekunde klammerte.

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: to think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

Die Widmung dieses Buches ist siebengeteilt: für Neil, für Jessica, für David, für Kenzie, für Di, für Anne, und für euch, wenn ihr zu Harry gehalten habt, bis ganz zum Schluss.

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: To Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

Wenn du nicht gerne liest, dann hast du einfach noch nicht das richtige Buch für dich gefunden.

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

Zudem ertappte ich mich dabei, dass ich Handlungsstränge für zweitrangige Figuren entwickelte, die überflüssig waren wie ein Kropf. Schwieriger war es, mich von den Handlungslinien zu trennen, die ich für manche viel wichtigere Figuren entwickelt hatte, da sie um des großen Zugs der Erzählung willen geopfert werden mussten.

Obwohl ich das Haus der Dursleys als groß und wuchtig beschreibe, wie es Onkel Vernons Stellung als Firmendirektor entspricht, stellte ich mir beim Schreiben unbewusst immer das zweite Haus vor, in dem ich als Kind lebte.

Although there is a lot of Christian imagery in the books. That's undeniable. But that's an allusion to a belief system in which I was raised.

If you need to tell your readers something...there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere.

Wir brauchen keine Magie um die Welt zu verändern. Alles was wir brauchen, tragen wir bereits bei uns, wir haben die Macht sie uns besser auszumalen.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.