Happy Birthday, Harry!
We’ll always remember.☼ The storm raged more and more ferociously as the night went on. Harry couldn’t sleep. He shivered and turned over, trying to get comfortable, his stomach rumbling with hunger. Dudley’s snores were drowned by the low rolls of thunder that started near mid-night. The lighted dial of Dudley’s watch, which was dangling over the edge of the sofa on his fat wrist, told Harry he’d be eleven in ten minutes’ time. He lay and watched his birthday tick nearer, wondering if the Dursleys would remember at all, wondering where the letter writer was now.
Happy 47th Birthday, J.K. Rowling (b. July 31, 1965)
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
Birthday Glomps
July 31st in the Harry Potter World




