Selected quotes from Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard named Harry Potter and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. All them are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who wants to become an immortal and overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic. He also wants to subjugate all wizards and Muggles who are non-magical people.
The novels became a movie franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures They consist of eight fantasy films beginning with "Harry Potter and the Philosopher&apos:s Stone" (2001) and ending with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" (2011).
A spin-off prequel series which is planned to consist of five films, started with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). This marked the beginning of the Wizarding World shared media franchise.
Quotes from Harry Potter:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Albus Dumbledore:
"There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
"If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin."
"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."
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
"It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Hermione Granger:
"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."
Ron Weasley:
"You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary."
Rubeus Hagrid:
"Yer a wizard Harry."
Severus Snape:
"There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!"
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Albus Dumbledore:
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes."
Dobby:
"Dobby is free."
Draco Malfoy:
"Training for the ballet, Potter?"
"Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward."
Gilderoy Lockhart:
"Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that."
Harry Potter:
"I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I’m not there."
Hermione Granger:
"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself."
Ron Weasley:
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
"When in doubt, go to the library."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Albus Dumbledore:
"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?"
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
Cornelius Fudge:
"Why, dear boy, we don’t send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts."
Harry Potter:
"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"
"Mischief Managed!"
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good."
"'I’m not going to be murdered,’ Harry said out loud. ‘That’s the spirit, dear,’ said his mirror sleepily."
Ron Weasley:
"Don’t let the muggles get you down."
Sirius Black:
"I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for."
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Albus Dumbledore:
"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
"Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed."
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
Fred Weasley:
"Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt."
Hermione Granger:
"Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!"
"Twitchy little ferret, aren’t you, Malfoy?"
Rubeus Hagrid:
"I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'"
Sirius Black:
"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
Voldemort:
"Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go."
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Albus Dumbledore:
"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
Fred Weasley:
"I think we've outgrown full-time education ... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?"
Hermione Granger:
"I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?"
"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
Luna Lovegood:
"Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure."
"You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!"
"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."
"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."
Ron Weasley:
"Accio Brain!"
Severus Snape:
"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing."
Sirius Black:
"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are."
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Albus Dumbledore:
"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
"Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."
Ginny Weasley:
"The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
Hermione Granger:
"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
Luna Lovegood:
"You’re just as sane as I am."
Nearly Headless Nick:
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe."
Seamus Finnigan:
"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Albus Dumbledore:
“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. ‘After all this time?’ ‘Always,’ said Snape.”"
"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."
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.”
"‘Why are they all staring?’ demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. ‘Don’t let it worry you,’ said Ron. ‘It’s me. I’m extremely famous.’"
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."
Fred Weasley:
"He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo."
"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."
Harry Potter:
"I’m going to keep going until I succeed—or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years."
"That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth. And quite honestly, I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime."
Kingsley Shacklebolt:
"We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." —
Hermione Granger:
"‘Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!’ said Hermione. ‘We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —’ ‘What’s that, an illness?’ asked Ron."
Minerva McGonagall:
"I've always wanted to use that spell."
Molly Weasley:
"Not my daughter, you b*tch!"
Remus Lupin:
"It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers."
Sirius Black:
"‘Does it hurt?’ The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. ‘Dying? Not at all,’ said Sirius. ‘Quicker and easier than falling asleep.’"