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Sorcerer's Stone/Philosopher's Stone Quotes

1. After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~Albus Dumbledore

2. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
~Albus Dumbledore

3. "Don't let the Muggles get you down!"
~Ron Weasley

4. "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those to weak to seek it."
~Quirrell

5. "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."
~Albus Dumbledore

6. "Scars can come in handy. I myself have one above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."
~Albus Dumbledore

7. "Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love."
~Albus Dumbledore

7. "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
~Albus Dumbledore

8. "Oh, are you a prefect Percy? You should have said something, we had no idea."
"Hang on I think I remember him saying something about it, once..."
"Or twice�"
"A minute�"
"All summer�"
~Fred & George Weasley

9. "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

10. "So light a fire!" Harry choked.
"Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing her hands.
"HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed, "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!"
~Harry, Hermione, and Ron

11. "Longbottom, if brains were gold then you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something."
~Draco Malfoy

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Chamber of Secrets Quotes

1. "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
~Arthur Weasley

2. "No Harry, even in the wizarding world hearing voices isn't a good sign."
~Hermione Granger

3. "Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?"
~Ron Weasley

4. "It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~Albus Dumbledore

5. "Oh Potter, you rotter, oh, what have you done, You're killing off students, you think it's good fun"
~Peeves

6. "Make way for the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard [Harry] coming through..."
~Fred and George Weasley

7. Sure! Let's all throw books at Myrtle, because she can't feel it. Ten points if you get it in her stomach. Fifty points if it goes through her HEAD.
~Moaning Myrtle

8. "Professor Dumbledore," Ron said quickly, "there was an accident down in the Chamber of Secrets. Professor Lockhart --"
"Am I a professor?" said Lockhart in mild surprise. "Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?"
"He tried to do a Memory Charm and the wand backfired," Ron explained quietly to Dumbledore.
"Dear me," said Dumbledore, shaking his head, his long silver mustache quivering. "Impaled upon your own sword, Gilderoy!"
"Sword?" said Lockhart dimly. "Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though." He pointed at Harry. "He'll lend you one."
~Ron, Lockhart, Dumbledore

9. George looked up in time to see Malfoy pretending to faint with terror again.
"That little git," he said calmly. "He wasn't so cocky last night when the dementors were down our end of the train. Came running into our compartment, didn't he, Fred?"
"Nearly wet himself," said Fred, with a contemptuous glance at Malfoy.
~George & Fred

10. "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."
~Harry & Fred

11. "You don't know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking."
~Ron Weasley

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Prisoner of Azkaban Quotes

1. "What about my punishment?"
". . . Punishment?"
"I broke the law! The Decree for the Restriction of Underage Wizardry!"
"Oh, my dear boy, we're not going to punish you for a little thing like that! It was an accident! We don't send people to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts!"
~Harry Potter & Cornelius Fudge

2. "I'm not going to be murdered."
"That's the spirit, dear."
~Harry Potter & sleepy mirror

3. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
~password to reveal the Marauder's Map

4. "You're fighting a losing battle there, dear."
~Mirror; to Harry Potter about his wild hair

5. "Vengeance is very sweet."
~Severus Snape

6. "I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."
~Harry Potter

7. "If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about."
~Sirius Black

8. "Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor."
~Marauder's Map

9. "Oh Professor look! I think I found an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?"
"It is Uranus my dear," said Professor Trelawney peering down a the chart.
"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron.
~Lavender, Trelawney, & Ron

10. Ron was staring at Pettigrew with the utmost revulsion.
"I let you sleep in my bed!"
~Ron Weasley

11. "Well...when we were in our first year, Harry�young, carefree, and innocent�"
Harry snorted. He doubted whether Fred and George had ever been innocent.
~Fred & George Weasley

12. "Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She � er got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first."
~Oliver Wood

13. "Azkaban � the wizard prison, Goyle. Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backwards."
~Draco Malfoy

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Goblet of Fire Quotes

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

2. 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!
~Albus Dumbledore

3. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
~Albus Dumbledore

4. It's 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.
~Narrator
5. I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?
~Alastor Mad-Eye Moody

6. Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
~Alastor Mad-Eye Moody

7. 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

8. Percy wouldn't know a joke if it danced naked right in front of him wearing Dobby's tea cozy."
~Ron Weasley

9. "Myrtle! I'm - I'm not wearing anything!"
~Harry

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

11. "I want to fix that in my memory forever... Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret."
~Ron Weasley

12. "There you go, Harry! You weren't being thick after all -- you were just showing moral fiber!"
~Ron Weasley

13. "I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definately is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur."
~Harry Potter

14. "That'll change the world, that report will. Front page of the Daily Prophet, I expect, cauldron leaks."
~Ron Weasley

15. "I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks."
~Old wizard at the QWC, wearing a muggle woman nightgown

16. "Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and suck blood all at once?"
~Draco Malfoy

17. "Twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy?"
~Hermione Granger

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Order of the Phoenix Quotes

1. "Are you mad, Mad-Eye?"
~Nymphadora Tonks

2. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother. Is that normal, Hermione?"
~Ronald Weasley

3. "You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
~Phineas Nigellus

4. "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly."
~Albus Dumbledore

5. �Give her hell from us peeves�
~Weasley twin

6. "This is how it is - this is why you're not in the Order - you don't understand - there are things worth dying for!"
~Sirius Black

7. "By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."
~Albus Dumbledore

8. "I could break out of course, but what a waste of time and frankly I can think of a whole host of things I�d rather be doing."
~Albus Dumbledore

9. "I don't care if my tea leaves spell die, Ron, die, I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong."
~Ron Weasley

10. "Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up an realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.
~Ron Weasley

10. "You don't want to bottle your anger up like that, Harry, let it all out. There might be a couple people 50 miles away who didn't hear you."
~Fred Weasley

12. "Er � thanks very much, Ernie," said Harry, taken aback. Ernie might be pompous on occaisons like these, but Harry was in a mood to deeply appreciate a vote of confidence from somebody who was not wearing radishes in their ears.
~Harry Potter

13. "The hats have gone," Hermione said happily. "Seems the house-elves do want freedom after all."
"I wouldn't be on it," Ron told her cuttingly. "They might not count as clothes. They didn't look anything like hats to me, more like woolly bladders."
~Hermione & Ron

14. "Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..."
"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.
~Hermione & Harry

15. "I can't see any boils," said Ron, staring at the twins.
"No, well, you wouldn't," said Fred, "they're not in a place we generally display to the public�"
"�but they make sitting on a broom a right pain in the�"
~Ron, Fred, George

16. "Well?" said Ron finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?"
Harry considered for a moment.
"Wet," he said truthfully.
Ron made a noice that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell.
"Because she was crying," Harry continued heavily.
"Oh," said Ron, his smile fading slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?"
"Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am."
~Ron & Harry

17. Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."
"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione.
~Ron & Hermione

18. "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something...Of course, he might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died...But I mustn't get my hopes up..."
~Sirius Black

19. Rita stared at her. So did Harry. Luna, on the other hand, sang "Weasley is our King" dreamily under her breath and stirred her drink with a cocktail onion on a stick.
~Narrator

20. "S'up Figgy?" ~Mundungus Fletcher

21. Weasley cannot save a thing,
He cannot block a single ring,
That's why Slytherins all sing:
Weasley is our King.

Weasley was born in a bin,
He always lets the Quaffle in,
Weasley will make sure we win,
Weasley is our King.
~Two verses of "Weasley is Our King"

Thanks to Kat & Rachel Weasley for all the quotes in this section!

J.K. Rowling Quotes

1. "The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives."

2. "I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

3. "If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing."

4. "I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!"

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