J. K. Rowling Potter Quotations

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!

Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.

Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.' 'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos!

What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

After all this time?" "Always...

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days." "Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it.

Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you-

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

The ones that love us never really leave us.

Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t you?” he added to Harry. “What?” said Harry. “Harry Potter,” chorused the twins. “Oh, him,” said Harry. “I mean, yes, I am.

It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!

OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!” Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember...I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

The wand chooses the wizard.

If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet

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.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Anyway, members of the Inquisitorial Squad do have the power to dock points so, Granger, I'll have five from you for being rude about our new Headmistress. Macmillan, five for contradicting me. Five because I don't like you, Potter. Weasley, your shirt's untucked, so I'll have another five for that. Oh yeah, I forgot, you're a Mudblood, Granger, so ten off for that.

George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.

Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me.

Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

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.

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.