Harry Potter (series) Quotes and Quotation
This page is for posting quotes from the Harry Potter series of stories by J. K. Rowling
“I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
-Snape.
"I tell you, that dragon is the most horrible creature I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes about it you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit. When it bit me, he told me off for frightening it. And when I left he was singing it a lullaby."
-Ron
"I don't need a cloak to become invisible."
-Albus Dumbledore
"There is no good and evil, there is only power...and those too weak to seek it."
-Quirrel
"When a wizard goes over to the dark side there's nothin', and no one matters to 'em anymore."
-Hagrid
"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed -- or worse, expelled. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."
-Hermione
"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
-Albus Dumbledore
"Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."
-Albus Dumbledore
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-Albus Dumbledore
"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort can't understand, it's love."
-Albus Dumbledore
"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."
-Albus Dumbledore
"One can never have enough socks."
Albus Dumbledore
"At least no one on Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent." -Hermione Granger
"Voldemort...is my past, present and future..."
-Tom Riddle
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world" -Ron
"Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough." –Ron
"Haven't I already told you that killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me any more? For many months now, my new target has been -- you." -Tom Riddle
"The first word out of those poor Petrified people's mouths will be 'It was Hagrid.' Frankly, I'm astounded Professor McGonagall thinks all these security measures are necessary."
-Gilderoy Lockhart
"I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
-Albus Dumbledore
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
-Arthur Weasley
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-Albus Dumbledore
"I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules," said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. "Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words," Dumbledore went on, smiling.
"And Potter -- do try and win, won't you? Or we'll be out of the running for the eighth year in a row, as Professor Snape was kind enough to remind me only last night..."
-Prof. McGonagall
"His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad/
"I still don't like your tone, boy. If you can speak of your beatings in that casual way, they clearly aren't hitting you hard enough. Petunia, I'd write to them if I were you. Make it clear that you approve the use of extreme force in this boy's case."
-Aunt Marge
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me." -Harry
"What would we want to be prefects for?" Said George looking revolted at the very idea. "It'd take all the fun out of life." -George Weasley
"Please, sir," said Hermione, whose hand was still in the air, "the werewolf differs from the true wolf in several small ways. The snout of the werewolf--"
"That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger," Snape said coolly. "Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all."
Hermione went very red, put down her hand and stared at the floor with her eyes full of tears. It was a mark of how much the class loathed Snape, they were all glaring at him, because every one of them had called Hermione a know-it-all at least once, and Ron, who told Hermione she was a know-it-all at least twice a week, said loudly, "You asked us a question and she knows the answer! Why ask if you don't want to be told?"
"I'm not blamin' yeh...but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two'd value yer friend more'n broomsticks or rats. Tha's all." -Hagrid
"And what would I want with a piece of old parchment?" asked Harry. "A bit of old parchment?!" exclaimed Fred, as though Harry had mortally offended him. "Explain, George."
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." -George
"Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter."
-Madame Rosmerta
"If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about." -Sirius Black
"Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione," he said. "Only one out of three, I'm afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don't want Harry dead...but I won't deny that I am a werewolf." –Lupin
"You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"
-Sirius Black
"What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives, Peter."
-Sirius Black
"There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them."
-Sirius Black
"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"
-Harry
"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..."
-Harry
"You are truly your father's son, Harry..."
-Sirius Black
"Remember Cedric. 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
"There you go, Harry! You weren't being thick after all -- you were just showing moral fiber!"
-Ron
"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
"You might even have a scar now, if you're lucky...that's what you want, isn't it?"
-Harry to Ron
"'Course Dumbledore trusts you. He's a trusting man, isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me -- I say there are spots that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, know what I mean?"
-Moody
"Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time." - Prof. Dumbledore
"Don't worry. I can see them too. You're just as sane as I am."
- Luna Lovegood
"Harry, it's no use. He's gone."
- Lupin
"If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it in within my power to make them." -Irma Pince, Hogwarts librarianHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
His hair as dark as a blackboard/
I wish he was mine,/
He's really divine,/
The hero who conquered the dark lord."
-Singing valentine presumed to be from GinnyHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
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