As Harry Potter creator, undisputed Twitter queen and all-round GODDESS JK Rowling turns 50, we celebrate with a collection of her very best words…

1. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/509800530043240448

2. "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

3. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/475975334597492736

4. "Not my daughter, you bitch!"
Molly Weasley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

5. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/462157232827011072

6. "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban

7. "If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

8. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/508245337996554240

9. "Curiosity is not a sin… But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

10. "We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter’s the one, and Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!"
Peeves, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

11. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/508706921566969856

12. "We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

13. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/536863504108904448

14. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/534827328741056515

15. "People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

16. "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

17. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/507597634911997952

18. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

19. "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain."
Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20. “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

21. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/552133315709640704

22. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/554229281929564160

23. "It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up."
JK Rowling

24. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery."
Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

25. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/544998416414412801

26. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/544995944404897792

27. "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it."
Professor Quirrell, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

28. "YOU FOUL, LOATHSOME, EVIL LITTLE COCKROACH!"
Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

29. “I am what I am an’ I’m not ashamed. ‘Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothern’ with.’”
Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

30. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/619886370081869824

31. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148385482612736

32. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148599815704577

33. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148783056527360

34. "The stories we love best live in us forever."
JK Rowling

35. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
George Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

36. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/601355861248860160

37. "Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

38. "I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long."
Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

39. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/596720613433147392

40. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595141099934642176

41. "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

42. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/508714015695335424

43. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/594409493443805184

44. "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

45. "You are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet."
Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

46. "The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."
Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

47. "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 empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
JK Rowling

48. "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
JK Rowling

49. "What's comin' will come, and we'll meet it when it does."
Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

50. “Of course it is happening inside your head…but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JK! And thanks for all the words.

By Cat Collins (@girlslovescifi)