As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

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.