In the past, CNN might have sought out a conversation with one of the greatest children's novelists of all time, who also happens to be "controversial." Not anymore. Instead, CNN looks at this remarkable conversation as "harmful." Puke.

"A sense of righteousness is not incompatible with doing terrible things." - JK Rowling

"The irredeemably evil character in Potter has dehumanized himself. Voldemort has consciously and deliberately made himself less than human. And we see the natural conclusion of what he's done to himself through very powerful magic. What he's left with is something less than human. And he's done that deliberately. He sees humane behavior as weakness. He has reduced himself to something that cannot feel the full range of human emotion." - JK Rowling

"We should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain. We should question ourselves most when we receive a rush of adrenaline by doing or saying something. Many people mistake that adrenaline for the voice of conscience." - JK Rowling