Harry Potter Quotes

“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

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

“Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“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

“Play Quidditch at all?”
“No,” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch could be.
“I do — Father says it’s a crime if I’m not picked to play for my House, and I must say, I agree. Know what House you’ll be in yet?”
“No,” said Harry, feeling more stupid by the minute.
“Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I’ll be in Slytherin, all our family have been — imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I’d leave, wouldn’t you?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“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

“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

“By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.”
― Slytherin

“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

“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

“Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!”
― Cedric Diggory in A Very Potter Musical

“I have seen your heart, and it is mine.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'”
― Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb

“I like a quiet life, you know me.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“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

“Wow, we're identical!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“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

“The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
“Sorry?” said Cho.
“D’you — d’you want to go to the ball with me?” said Harry.
Why did he have to go red now? Why?
“Oh!” said Cho, and she went red too. “Oh Harry, I’m really sorry,” and she truly looked it. “I’ve already said I’ll go with someone else.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“DUMBLEDORE: [...] To suffer is as human as to breathe.

HARRY: You said that to me once before.

DUMBLEDORE: It is all I have to offer you tonight.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten Fred on the ankle as he pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner. Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with small wings glued to its back, it glowered down at them all, the ugliest angel Harry had ever seen, with a large bald head like a potato and rather hairy feet.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?"
"Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..."
Seamus and Dean, who were working nearby, sniggered loudly, though not loud enough to mask the excited squeals from Lavender Brown— "Oh Professor, look! I think I might've gotten an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?"
"It is Uranus, my dear," said Professor Trelawney, peering down at the chart.
"Can I get a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron.”
― J.K Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. However, I shall answer your questions unless I have a very good reason not to, in which case I beg you'll forgive me. I shall not, of course, lie.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“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

“Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.”
― J.K. Rowling