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Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.“What — what are you doing?” said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret’s progress through the air.“Teaching,” said 
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said.“My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!”“Coincidence,” said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice.“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” said Ron, starting to get angry. “Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!” “There you are, then,” said Hermione in a superior tone. “They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And Harry’s still with us because he’s not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I’d better kick the bucket then!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
To the Dark Lord,I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more.R.A.B
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
It's leviOsa, not levioSA!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Three turns should do it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hermione slid out of her bunk and moved like a sleepwalker towards Ron, her eyes upon his pale face. She stopped right in front of him, her lips slightly parted, her eyes wide. Ron gave a weak, hopeful smile and half-raised his arms.Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach.'Ouch — ow — gerroff! What the — ? Hermione — OW!'“You — complete — arse — Ronald — Weasley!”She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione adv
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls....
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.
— J.K. Rowling
Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.
— Daniel Radcliffe
But Death was cunning.
— J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Is it true?" he said. "They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment. So it's you, is it?""Yes," said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of were thickset and looked like bodyguards."Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle," said the pale boy carelssly, noticing where Harry was looking. "And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." Ron gave a slight cough, which might have been hiding a snigger. Draco Malfoy looked at him. "Think my name's funny, do you? No need to ask who you are. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford."He turned back to Harry. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry.'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...''But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!''Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The ones that love us never really leave us.
— J.K. Rowling
Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up.Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi.""You've seen Star Wars?""Seen it and denounced it.""You've denounced Star Wars?"She looked me straight in the eye and said, "Hollywood should not glorify witches.""I think you've missed the point...""I also denounce Harry Potter.""Really?""Yes.""Because...""...because literature, especially children's literature, should not glorify witches.""Oda, what do you do for fun?"She thought about it, then said, without a jot of humor, "I denounce things.
— Kate Griffin, The Midnight Mayor
Hey, look — Harry’s got a Weasley sweater, too!”Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G.“Harry’s is better than ours, though,” said Fred, holding up Harry’s sweater. “She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.George!Only joking, Mum.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him."You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.
— Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.
— Melissa Anelli, Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow....""I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. What happens if you break it, then?""You die," said Ron simply. "Fred and George tried to get me to make one when I was about five. I nearly did too, I was holding hands with Fred and everything when Dad found us. He went mental," said Ron, with a reminiscent gleam in his eyes. "Only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since."“Yeah, well, passing over Fred’s left buttock —”"I beg your pardon?" said Fred's voice as the twins entered the kitchen.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!”“There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.”He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'.'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
— J.K. Rowling
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?''Yes,' said Harry.'You called her a liar?''Yes.''You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?''Yes.'Professor McGonagall sat down behind her desk, frowning at Harry. Then she said, 'Have a biscuit, Potter-''Have- what?
— J.K. Rowling
Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
DUMBLEDORE: You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.HARRY: So I’m supposed to stand and watch?DUMBLEDORE: No. You’re supposed to teach him how to meet life.
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I hate being poor.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can't go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
— J.K. Rowling
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You thieve my brains, consider me your toy, my doting doctor tells me I am not!' Lilith: No! Words of power! William Shakespeare: 'Foul Carrionite specters, cease your show, between the points... ' [he looks to The Doctor for help] The Doctor: 761390! William Shakespeare: '761390! Banished like a tinker's cuss, I say to thee... ' [he again looks to The Doctor] The Doctor: Uh... [he looks to Martha] Martha Jones: Expelliarmus! The Doctor: Expelliarmus! William Shakespeare: 'Expelliarmus!' The Doctor: Good old JK!
— Gareth Roberts
Who was this women?' asked Harry.'I dunno, some Ministry hag.'Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled.'Little women. Bow on top of er' head.'He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad.'Harry dropped his wand.Harry looked up and saw his own shock reflected in Ron and Hermione's faces. The scars on the back of right hand seemed to be tingling again.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
They stuff people’s heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall,” he told Harry. “Want to come upstairs and practice?”“No, thanks,” said Harry. “The poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your head down it — it might be sick.” Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he’d said.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
— J.K. Rowling
He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Play Quidditch at all?”“No,” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch cou
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
First think of the person who lives in disguise,Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,The middle of middle and the end of end?And finally give me the sound often heardDuring the search for a hard-to-find word.Now string them together, and answer me this,Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.
— J.K. Rowling
Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. 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.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Voldemort the corn snake with the shoe fetish. Wonderful.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
i'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled
— Hermione Jean Granger Weasley
I like a quiet life, you know me.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
And that was when I saw what Cassidy had done to herself: the gold and red ribbing on her sweater-vest, the matching stripes on her tie, the gray uniform skirt, and the navy blazer draped over her arm..."Is that a Gryffindor tie?" I asked."And an official Harry Potter Merchandise sweater-vest," she confirmed smugly.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ abou’ - about ANYTHING?’Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks were’nt bad.’I know some things,’ he said. ’ I can, you know, do maths and stuff.’But Hagrid simply waved his hand and said, ‘About our world, I mean. Your world. My world. Yer’ parents world.’ ‘What world?’Hagrid looked at though he was about to explode.‘DURSLEY!’ he boomed.Uncle Vernon, who had gone very pale, whispered something that sounded like ’Mimblewimble’. Hagrid stared wildly at Harry.‘But yeh must know about yer mum and dad’, he said. ’I mean, they’re famous. You’re famous. ‘What? My - my mum and dad weren’t famous, were they?’‘Yeh don’ know... yeh don’ know...’ Hagrid ran his fingers through his hair, fixing Harry with a bewildered stare.‘Yeh don’ know what yeh are?’ he said finally.Uncle Vernon suddenly found his voice.‘Stop!’ he commanded, ’stop right there, sir! I forbid you to tell the boy anything!’A braver man than Vernon dudley would have quailed under the furious look Hagrid now gave him; when Hagrid spoke, his every syllable trembled with rage.‘You never told him? Never told him what was in the latter Dumbledore left fer him? I was there! I saw Dumbledore leave it, Dursley! An’ you kept it from him all these years?’‘Kept what from me?’ said Harry eagerly.‘STOP! I FORBID YOU!’ yelled Uncle Vernon in panic.Aunt Petunia gave a gasp of horror.’Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh,’ said Hagrid. ‘Harry - yer a wizard.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.
— J.K. Rowling
NO!”The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Maybe he murdered Myrtle
—  that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .
That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I'm a what?" gasped Harry."A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
She needs to sort out her priorities
— J.K. Rowling
There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.
— J.K. Rowling
There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.
— J.K. Rowling
Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!
— Cedric Diggory in A Very Potter Musical
The owls are gathering
—  find out why soon.
I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter
— J.K. Rowling
Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.
— J.K. Rowling
You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.
— Gary Oldman
Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late. . . . What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?”“Nothing — nothing, my Lo
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I'm not going anywhere!" said Harry fiercely. "One of my best friends is Muggle-born; she'll be first in line if the Chamber really has been opened...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened.Enemies of the heir, beware.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score,” Harry recited. “So — that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?”“What’s basketball?” said Wood curiously.“Never mind,” said Harry quickly.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?""Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.
— J.K. Rowling
I like the idea of Warrior Flitwick running to save the day by screaming, "Let's do some charm harm, my snitches!
— Dan Bergstein
Yeh don’ have ter be ashamed of what yeh are.
— J.K. Rowling
Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile.
— J.K. Rowling
JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.
— Stephen Prosapio
In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments of the stories and putting them in an immersive environment. It is taking the theme park experience to a new level.' And of course I wish Thierry and his colleagues every possible luck, and I am sure it will be wonderful. But I cannot conceal my feelings; and the more I think of those millions of beaming kids waving their wands and scampering the Styrofoam turrets of Hogwartse_STmk, and the more I think of those millions of poor put-upon parents who must now pay to fly to Orlando and pay to buy wizard hats and wizard cloaks and wizard burgers washed down with wizard meade_STmk, the more I grind my teeth in jealous irritation.Because the fact is that Harry Potter is not American. He is British. Where is Diagon Alley, where they buy wands and stuff? It is in London, and if you want to get into the Ministry of Magic you disappear down a London telephone box. The train for Hogwarts goes from King's Cross, not Grand Central Station, and what is Harry Potter all about? It is about the ritual and intrigue and dorm-feast excitement of a British boarding school of a kind that you just don't find in America. Hogwarts is a place where children occasionally get cross with each other—not 'mad'—and where the situation is usually saved by a good old British sense of HUMOUR. WITH A U. RIGHT? NOT HUMOR. GOTTIT?
— Boris Johnson
The battle is always the same, just with different chapters.
— G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for he was about to join them. He was not really fetching them: They were fetching him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Okay," said Harry, staring at it, "Pear Drop. Er – Licorice Wand. Fizzing Whizbee. Drooble's Best Blowing Gum. Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans… oh no, he doesn't like them, does he?… oh just open, can't you?" He said angrily. "I really need to see him, it's urgent!" The gargoyle remained immovable. Harry kicked it, achieving nothing but an excruciating pain in his big toe. "Chocolate frog!" he yelled angrily, standing on one leg. "Sugar Quill! Cockroach Cluster! The gargoyle sprang to life and jumped aside. Harry blinked.
— J.K. Rowling
You’re mental,” said George, trying to push it back at Harry.“No, I’m not,” said Harry. “You take it, and get inventing. It’s for the joke shop.”“He is mental,” Fred said in an almost awed voice. [Goblet of Fire]
— Fred and George Weasley
DUMBLEDORE: No. I was protecting you. I did not want to hurt you .
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry: "Have you…" he began. "I mean, who … has anyone you known ever died?" "Yes," said Luna simply, "my mother. She was a quite extraordinary witch, you know, but she did like to experiment and one of her spells went rather badly wrong one day. I was nine." "I’m sorry," Harry mumbled. "Yes, it was rather horrible," said Luna conversationally. "I still feel very sad about it sometimes. But I’ve still got Dad. And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?" "Er – isn’t it?" said Harry uncertainly. She shook her head in disbelief. "Oh, come on. You heard them, just behind the veil, didn’t you?" " You mean…" "In that room in the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, that’s all, you heard them.
— J.K. Rowling
All my shoes somehow magically disappeared. But I'm not concerned. They'll show up sometime - even when you least expect it.
— Luna Lovegood
Harry Potter: I know this witch with no nose. Voldermort: With no nose? How does he smell? Harry Potter: Terrible!
— Harry Potter Fanclub, Harry Potter Memes & Jokes
Training for the ballet, Potter?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
One of the things I really dislike about Christians is their hypocrisy
—  they criticize magicians but portray Jesus as Harry Potter.
Don't let the Muggles get you down!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Remember that. -Albus Dumbledore
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living (...).
— J.K. Rowling
I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters," - Harry Potter
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What's life without a little risk?-Sirius Black
— J. K. Rowling,
After All This Time? Always" - Snape
— Jk Rowling
You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak
— J. K. Rowling
The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long and happy lives, and none of them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain's waters carried no enchantment at all.
— J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Getting smacked in the face with a Harry Potter book does not qualify as a fight," Charlie says. "First of all, it wasn't just any Harry Potter book. It was Order of the Phoenix."Matt gasps. He knows that Order of the Phoenix is the longest and most potentially dangerous of all the Harry Potter books when used as a weapon.
— Robin Roe, A List of Cages
I suspect Nargles are behind it.
— J.K. Rowling
You were always the Harry to my Hermione, flushing away my erratic anxiety with the rudest sense of realism.
— Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.
— J.K. Rowling
Hagrid!" Harry called, holding on to the bike for dear life. "Hagrid—Accio Hagrid!
— J.K. Rowling
Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That was his tragedy.
— J.K. Rowling
They think I'm a waste of space, actually, but I'm used to—""I don't think you're a waste of space."If Harry had not seen Dudley's lips move, he might not have believed it. As it was, he stared at Dudley for several seconds before accepting that it must have been his cousin who had spoken; for one thing, Dudley had turned red. Harry was embarrassed and astonished himself.
— J.K. Rowling
What an idiot
— Hermione Granger
Me? Books and cleverness? There are more important things in life. Friendship, and bravery, and Harry, just be careful.
— Hermoine Granger
Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everything to him, and even after he left -""This is You-Know-Who we're talking about, right? Not you?" inquired Ron.
— J.K. Rowling
Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you" - said Dumbledore
— J.K. Rowling
Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you - said Dumbledore
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry, my wand!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
If your hogs have warts, call us. Hogwarts Wart Removal. 555-HOGWARTS
— Kate Klise, Secrets of the Circus
Most of the time, I think you have to make a choice—at a certain point—of the man you want to be. And I will tell you at that time you need a parent or a friend. And if you've learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no friends...then you're all alone. And being alone—that's so hard."-Draco Malfoy
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
GINNY: After I came out of hospital — everyone ignored me, shut me out — other than, that is, the boy who had everything — who came across the Gryffindor common room and challenged me to a game of Exploding Snap. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are — have always been — heroic in really quiet ways. My point is — after this is over, just remember if you could that sometimes people — but particularly children — just want someone to play Exploding Snap with.
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
HARRY: “The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great cautio
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.DRACO: That’s not true. SCORPIUS: Dad, now is not the time . . . ALBUS: There is something you could do — to stop him. But you won’t. DRACO: That’s heroic. GINNY takes HARRY’s hand. GINNY: You don’t have to watch, Harry. We can go home. HARRY: I’m letting it happen . . . Of course I have to watch. HERMIONE: Then we’ll all witness it. RON: We’ll all watch.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
HARRY: "Oh, Draco . . . we can’t. We can’t use it."Draco looks up at Harry, and for the first time — at the bottom of this dreadful pit — they look at each other as friends.DRACO: "We have to find them — if it takes centuries, we must find our sons —
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Tell Albus - tell Albus Severus - I'm proud he carries my name.
— J.K. Rowling
My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the ways we expect". -Luna lovegood( Harry potter and the order of the phenoix)
— J.K. Rowling
What is life without a little risk?" -Sirius Black
— J.K. Rowling
It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father's - friendship.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Harry Potter is dead.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafriad of toil
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
All the same, we should get to bed,” whispered Hermione. “It wouldn’t do to oversleep tomorrow.”“No,” agreed Ron. “A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom’s mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill a lifetime’s beats before the end.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Because if its just you alone, you're not much of a threat.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.' - Sirius Black
— J.K. Rowling
But you would think, wouldn't you, that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt? - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig...
— J.K. Rowling
Before the boy who lived, there was another story. One of a monster inside of a man. One of a hero inside of a child. One of a traitor inside of a friend. And one of an angel inside of a demon.
— Mordred, Forever Alive
You don't seem to need many qualifications to liaise with Muggles; all they want is an OWL in Muggle Studies. ''Much more important is your enthusiasm, patience and a good sense of fun.'' - ''You'd need more than a good sense of fun to liaise with my uncle'', said Harry darkly .''Good sense of when to duck more like.
— J.K. Rowling
You'll stay with me? Until the very end, said James. They won't be able to see you? asked Harry. We are part of you, said Sirius. Invisible to anyone else.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Don’t get smart - you two are in a heap of trouble!” snarled Anderson. “Names!”“Names?” repeated the long-haired driver. “Er — well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce . . . Bathsheba . . . Elvendork . . .”“And what’s nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy or a girl,” said the boy in glasses.“Oh, our names, did you mean?” asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage. “You should’ve said! This here is James Potter, and I’m Sirius Black!”“Things’ll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheeky little —
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Prequel
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
— Albus Dumbledore
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
— J.K. Rowling
You might belong in Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart. Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.
— J.K. Rowling
Hasn't your experience with the Time-Turner taught you anything, Harry? The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Professor Moody!" said a shocked voice.Professor McGonagall was coming down the marble staircase with her arms full of books."Hello, Professor McGonagall," said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher."What - what are you doing?" said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret's progress through the air."Teaching," said 
— J.K. Rowling
We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.
— J.K. Rowling
You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon....
— J.K. Rowling
The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of wings, they were flying upward through the pipe. Harry could hear Lockhart dangling bellow him, saying, "Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!
— J.K. Rowling
the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumours.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter set Dobby free!" "Least I could do, Dobby", said Harry, grinning. "Just promise never to try and save my life again.
— J.K. Rowling
I don't care if you fall off your broom as long as you catch the Snitch first.
— J.K. Rowling
Dobby never meant to kill. Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure.
— Dobby
Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it," Mr. Weasley said in a constricted voice. "Well, all I can say is that it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry.
— J.K. Rowling
I see that you, like many before you. The happiest person on earth would look in the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is.
— Albus Perkamentus
So magic is real,’ I said. ‘Which makes you a … what?’‘A wizard.’‘Like Harry Potter?’Nightingale sighed. ‘No,’ he said, ‘not like Harry Potter.’‘In what way?’‘I’m not a fictional character,’ said Nightingale.
— Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
From the computer screen you learn and have fun with games, but in a world to show you truly are you have to show your potents. The rustling books of pages to be read is a fabulous thing but if you don't like books it becomes truely horrible.
— caterina jester
I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter
— J.K. Rowling
Arthur and Fred—” “I’m George,” said the twin at whom Moody was pointing. “Can’t you even tell us apart when we’re Harry?” “Sorry, George—” “I’m only yanking your wand, I’m Fred really—
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
what's life without a little risk
Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
— Alan Rickman
I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone.He will only be gone from the school when none here or loyal to him, said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.
— J.K. Rowling
Am I a professor? Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?
— Gilderoy Lockhart
Those who want power do not deserve it.And those who deserve power do not want it.
— J.K. Rowling
We don't need magic to change the world.
— J.K. Rowling
This has to be a joke. After all, an owl hadn't dropped a letter down my fireplace to let me know I'd been accepted into a special school, and I certainly hadn't taken an enchanted train to get to Kinsley High.
— Michelle Madow, The Prophecy of Shadows
Yes,' said Dumbledore. 'He'll have that scar for ever.''Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?''Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London underground.
— J.K. Rowling
Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrain from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.
— J.K. Rowling
Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living-room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
— J.K. Rowling
Are you okay?" she heard someone - Levi? - ask "Hey... are you crying?"Cath ran her fingers along the cover, over the raised gold type.Then someone else ran right into her, pushing the book into Cath's chest. Pushing two books into her chest. Cath looked up just as Wren threw an arm around her."They're both crying," Cath heard Reagan say. "I can't even watch."Cath freed an arm to wrap around her sister. "I can't believe it's really over," she whispered.Wren held her tight and shook her head. She really was crying, too. "Don't be so melodramatic, Cath," Wren laughed hoarsely. "It's never over... It's Simon.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
His memory's gone", said Ron. "The Memory Charm backfired. Hit him instead of us. Hasn't got a clue who he is, or where he is, or who we are. I told him to come and wait here. He's a danger to himself." Lockhart peered good--naturedly up at them all. "Hello", he said. "Odd sort of place, this, isn't it? Do you live here?
— J.K. Rowling
Harry said good-bye to you,” he said. “Didn’t you hear him?”“It doesn’t matter,” Harry muttered to Mr. Weasley. “Honestly, I don’t care.”Mr. Weasley did not remove his hand from Harry’s shoulder.“You aren’t going to see your nephew till next summer,” he said to Uncle Vernon in mild indignation. “Surely you’re going to say good-bye?”Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering. But Mr. Weasley’s wand was still in his hand, and Uncle Vernon’s tiny eyes darted to it once, before he said, very resentfully, “Good-bye, then.
— J.K. Rowling
The trouble with disagreeable people, Tibbs, is that the majority of them seem to be either one's direct relations or part of one's daily job. Present company excluded, of course. - Inspector Percival Pensive, The Case of the Haughty Housemaid
— Jessica Lawson, Nooks and Crannies
You want us to love you, is that right? Love, Tabitha Crum, is to be earned, not given away to just anyone like a festering case of fleas.	She'd been seven when her mother had made the comparison of love and irritable itching. Tabitha remembered the statement quite well because it was the same year children at school had suddenly gotten it in their heads that she had a case of head lice. That had been a difficult time and nobody had gotten close to Tabitha since. Of course, with the addition of a pet mouse over the last year, her lack of friendship could perhaps be further explained by the misapprehension that she spoke to herself. Pemberley was a most excellent consultant in all matters, but he tended to stay out of sight, so Tabitha could somewhat understand the slanderous comments.	Or it might have been the unfortunate, uneven unattractive, blunt-scissored haircut her mother was so fond of giving her.	Or it could have been the simple truth that making friends can be an awkward and a difficult thing when it's a one-sided endeavor and you've a pet mouse and you've been painted as odd and quiet and shy, when really you're just a bit misunderstood.	In any case, nobody at St. John's seemed lacking for companionship except her. But Tabitha reminded herself that there were far worse things than not having friends. In fact, she often made a game of listing far worse things:•	eating the contents of a sneeze•	creatures crawling into her ear holes.•	losing a body part (Though that one was debatable depending on the part. An ear or small toe might be worth a friend or two.
— Jessica Lawson, Nooks and Crannies
Harry moved toward the fire, butjust as he reached the edge of the hearth, Mr. Weasley put out ahand and held him back. He was looking at the Dursleys in amazement.“Harry said good-bye to you,” he said. “Didn’t you hear him?”“It doesn’t matter,” Harry muttered to Mr. Weasley. “Honestly, Idon’t care.”Mr. Weasley did not remove his hand from Harry’s shoulder.“You aren’t going to see your nephew till next summer,” he saidto Uncle Vernon in mild indignation. “Surely you’re going to saygood-bye?”Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taughtconsideration by a man who had just blasted away half his livingroom wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering. But Mr.Weasley’s wand was still in his hand, and Uncle Vernon’s tiny eyesdarted to it once, before he said, very resentfully, “Good-bye, then.
— J.K. Rowling
If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU!
— J.K. Rowling