What Jo says about...
Her thoughts, concerns and beliefs

Please note: unless you see quotemarks, these are summaries, and not JKR's words themselves. Please see the linked article for the actual text.

• JKR admires "bravery in all forms." [Read the exact quote from WBUR interview, 1999]
• She doesn’t like to tell people the titles of her books until they are finished; it is a superstition of hers. [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• "The only reason you'll ever see an eighth Harry Potter book is if I really, in ten years time, burn to do another one, but at the moment I think that's unlikely." [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• As a teacher, the "worst, shabbiest thing you can do" is to bully children (draws parallel to Snape). Conversations with JK Rowling, p.21
• JKR does not believe in witchcraft. [Read the exact quote from the South West News Service interview, 2000]
• "Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does." [Read the exact quote from the cBBC Newsround interview, 2000]
• JKR: "Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. All forms of intolerance, the whole idea of "that which is different from me is necessary evil." I really like to explore the idea that difference is equal and good. But there's another idea that I like to explore, too. Oppressed groups are not, generally speaking, people who stand firmly together -- no, sadly, they kind of subdivide among themselves and fight like hell. That's human nature, so that's what you see here. This world of wizards and witches, they're already ostracized, and then within themselves, they've formed a loathsome pecking order." [Read the exact quote from Entertainment Weekly, 2000]
• JKR: "I do have a real problem with gratuitous violence."[Read the exact quote from Time Magazine, 2000]
• JKR’s animagus form would be an Otter – which will become relevant in a later interview! [Read the exact quote from the Scholastic chat #2, 2000]
• JKR doesn't think she will ever publish her notebooks. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Are you going to write books about Harry after school? JKR: "Probably not, but I'll never say never because every time I do I immediately break the vow!" [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• If there is an eighth Harry Potter book, it will be to raise money for charity. "It could be the encyclopaedia of the world (of Hogwarts) and then I could rid myself of every last lurking details, but no not a novel." [A-01] and [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Jo would have fun being "someone like Peeves, causing mayhem and not bothering." [Read the exact quote from Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• As in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the prophecy was a "catalyst for a situation that would never have occurred if it had not been made." JKR appears to say that this is her opinion about prophecies in general. [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• JKR: "Prophecies are usually open to many different interpretations. That is both their strength and their weakness." [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• Jo thinks that there are about 3,000 wizards in Britain, though she admits that being specific about numbers is not "how I think." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• For her website FAQs, JK goes "looking to see what people want answered." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK posted once on Mugglenet, but she does not ever post in comments. [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK read some of the Narnia books, but has never read the final one in the series. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK's favorite Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes invention is the day dream charm. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Jo values courage above all other virtues and was trying to make that point when Neville stood up to the trio at the end of PS. Neville doesn't have the "Macho, showy type of courage that Harry shows playing quidditch." [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK was "seriously upset" at the end of Book 6. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Goblet of Fire and Chamber of Secrets were the hardest books JK to write. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK loves writing dialogue, especially between Harry, Ron and Hermione. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• "I love freakish names and I have always been interested in folk lore and I think it was a logical thing for me to end up writing even though it came so suddenly." [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK would like to teach Defense against the Dark Art at Hogwarts as it's the most worthwhile. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• "I never think in terms of What am I going to teach them? Or, What would it be good for them to find out here?" [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• On the topic of her books being free of references to God: "Um. I don't think they're that secular," she says, choosing her words slowly. "But, obviously, Dumbledore is not Jesus." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• [The books are a] kind of a litany of bad fathers. That's where evil seems to flourish, in places where people didn't get good fathering." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• "I think Phoenix could have been shorter. I knew that, and I ran out of time and energy toward the end." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• "I think I can say categorically that I will not write another fantasy after Harry." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]