Top 100 Harry Potter Quotables

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After nine years, six movies, and more gold galleons in profit than you could shake a Nimbus 2000 at – the Harry Potter film franchise is finally drawing to a close, with the first in the two-part finale Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows hitting cinema screens across the world today. Team Quotables are more than a little potty for Potter, so we’ve had great fun putting together our rather magical Top 100 Harry Potter Quotables. So grab a comfy chair in the Gryffindor common room, get your house elf to pour you a foaming tankard of butterbeer, and enjoy!

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”

1. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
— Albus Dumbledore

2. It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends.

— Albus Dumbledore

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

4. Enter stranger, but take heed 
Of what awaits the sin of greed, 
For those who take, but do not earn 
Must pay most dearly in their turn. 
So if you seek beneath our floors 
A treasure that was never yours, 
Thief, you have been warned; beware 
Of finding more than treasure there.
— Gringott’s Bank

5. I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.
— Hermione Granger

6. Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
— J. K. Rowling

7. 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.
— Mr Ollivander

8. There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
— J. K. Rowling

9. “One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
— Albus Dumbledore

10. “You haven’t got a letter on yours,” George observed. “I suppose she thinks you don’t forget your name. But we’re not stupid — we know we’re called Gred and Forge.”
— George Weasley

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

1. Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.
— Ron Weasley

2. “I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. 
Ron opened his mouth wide in horror. 
“Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.
— J. K. Rowling

3. It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities.
— Albus Dumbledore

4. “Ginny!” said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. “Haven’t I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps it’s brain?”
— Molly Weasley

5. Harry got a shock the first time he looked in the mirror over the kitchen mantelpiece and it shouted, “Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!”
— J. K. Rowling

6. Oh, well… I’d just been thinking… if you had died, you’d have been welcome to share my toilet.
— Moaning Myrtle

7. Proud? Are you crazy? All those times I could’ve died, and I didn’t manage it? They’ll be furious.
— Harry Potter

8. “Azkaban – the wizard prison, Goyle,” said Malfoy, looking at him in disbelief. “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backwards.”
— Draco Malfoy

9. His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, 
His hair is as dark as a blackboard. 
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, 
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
— Singing Valentine (Received by Harry)

10. I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me… Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
— Albus Dumbledore

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

1. Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business. 
Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. 
Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. 
Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.
— The Marauders’ Map

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

3. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no… anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever… lost.
— Remus Lupin

4. You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.
— Albus Dumbledore

5. And Potter—do try and win, won’t you? Or we’ll be out of the running for the eighth year in a row, as Professor Snape was kind enough to remind me only last night…
— Professor Minerva McGonagall

6. I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
— J. K. Rowling

7. Your parents gave their lives to keep you alive, Harry. A poor way to repay them – gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks.
— Remus Lupin

8. Tell them whatever you like. But make it quick, Remus. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
— Sirius Black

9. 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!
— Cornelius Fudge

10. “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?” said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. “Only innocent lives, Peter!” 
“You don’t understand!” whined Pettigrew. “He would have killed me, Sirius!” 
“Then you should have died!” roared Black. “Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!”
— J. K. Rowling

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

1. We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
— Albus Dumbledore

2. 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

3. It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
— Albus Dumbledore

4. It was like trying to keep water in his cupped hands; the details were now trickling away as fast as he tried to hold on to them.
— J. K. Rowling

5. Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
— Albus Dumbledore

6. She would have been nice-looking if she hadn’t been wearing a look that suggested there was a nasty smell under her nose.
— J. K. Rowling

7. Draco Malfoy, The Amazing, Bouncing Ferret.
— Ron Weasley

8. Come out, Harry… come out and play, then… it will be quick… it might even be painless… I would not know… I have never died.
— Voldemort

9. Socks are Dobby’s favorite, favorite clothes, sir! I has seven now, sir… But sir, they has made a mistake in the shop, Harry Potter, they is giving you two the same!
— Dobby the House-Elf

10. Yeah, well, Percy wouldn’t want to work for anyone with a sense of humour, would he? Percy wouldn’t recognise a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cosy.
— Ron Weasley

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

1. You… this isn’t a criticism, Harry! But you do… sort of… I mean—don’t you think you’ve got a bit of—a—saving-people thing?
— Hermione Granger

2. Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.
— Ravenclaw Motto

3. She seized Dudley by the shoulders and shook him, as though testing to see whether she could hear his soul rattling around inside him.
— J. K. Rowling

4. You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts… but you cannot deny he’s got style…
— Phineas Nigellus

5. Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.
— Hermione Granger

6. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
— Albus Dumbledore

7. Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died… but I mustn’t get my hopes up.
— Sirius Black

8. You’re the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
— Harry Potter

9. 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.
— Sirius Black

10. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young and I seem to have forgotten, lately.
— Albus Dumbledore

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”

1. The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They’re working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.
— Luna Lovegood

2. What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!
— Fleur Delacour

3. Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
— Albus Dumbledore

4. Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.
— Remus Lupin

5. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.
— J. K. Rowling

6. Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
— Hermione Granger

8. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
— Albus Dumbledore

8. Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
— J. K. Rowling

9. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.
— J. K. Rowling 

10. Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
— Albus Dumbledore

10 Quotes from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”

1. Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
— Albus Dumbledore

2. Not my daughter, you bitch!
— Molly Weasley

3. We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
— Kingsley Shacklebolt

4. So young, to be fighting so many.
— Griphook

5. Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
— Albus Dumbledore

6. I don’t think you’re a waste of space…You saved my life.
— Dudley Dursley

7. I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
— Lord Voldemort

8. I’ll join you when hell freezes over! Dumbledore’s Army!
— Neville Longbottom

9. “After all this time?” 
“Always,” said Snape.
— Professor Severus Snape

10. It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
— Albus Dumbledore

10 Quotes from the Films

1. Hagrid: You’re a wizard, Harry! 
Harry: I’m a what? 
— Harry Potter, Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone

2. Hermione: Now if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed – or worse, expelled.
Ron: She needs to sort out her priorities!
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone

3. Not to be rude or anything, but this isn’t a great time for me to have a house elf in my bedroom.
— Harry Potter, Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets

4. It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets

5. Is that really what my hair looks like from the back?
— Hermione Granger, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban

6. [About Krum] Ruddy pumpkin head, isn’t he?
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire 

7. You’re a fool, Harry Potter, and you will lose everything.
— Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix

8. Times like these, dark times, they do funny things to people. They can tear them apart.
— Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince

9. This is beyond anything I have imagined.
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince

10. Only I can live forever.
— Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

20 Quotes from J. K. Rowling

1. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
— J. K. Rowling 

2. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
— J. K. Rowling

3. As is a tale, so is life, not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
— J. K. Rowling

4. The wizards represent all that the true ‘muggle’ most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!
— J. K. Rowling

5. I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ’You’ve lost a lot of weight!’ ‘Well, the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’ What I felt like saying was, ’I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you.’ But no — my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!
— J. K. Rowling

6. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
— J. K. Rowling

7. I’ve never set out to teach anyone anything. It’s been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding ‘What is today’s message?’ And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to ‘thought for the day.’
— J. K. Rowling

8. Part of what makes a language “alive” is its constant evolution. […] I love editing “Harry” with Arthur Levine, my American editor — the differences between “British English” (of which there must be at least 200 versions) and “American English” (ditto!) are a source of constant interest and amusement to me. 
— J. K. Rowling

9. I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I’m in good company there.
— J. K. Rowling 

10. I’ve no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out, it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.
— J. K. Rowling

11. Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
— J. K. Rowling

12. [On Fame] One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.
— J. K. Rowling

13. Probably the very best thing my earnings have given me is absense of worry. I have not forgotten what it feels like to worry whether you’ll have enough to pay the bills. Not to have to think about that any more is the biggest luxury in the world.
— J. K. Rowling

14. Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. […] I really like to explore the idea that difference is equal and good. Oppressed groups are not, generally speaking, people who stand firmly together — no, sadly, they kind of subdivide among themselves and fight like hell. That’s human nature, so that’s what you see here. This world of wizards and witches, they’re already ostracized, and then within themselves, they’ve formed a loathsome pecking order.
— J. K. Rowling

15. I love freakish names and I have always been interested in folk lore and I think it was a logical thing for me to end up writing even though it came so suddenly.
— J. K. Rowling

16. As you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called “real life”, I want to extoll the crucial importance of imagination.
— J. K. Rowling

17. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself and what those closest to me expected of me.
— J. K. Rowling

18. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.
— J. K. Rowling

19. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being Jane Austen, being able to sit at home in the parsonage and your books would be very famous.
— J. K. Rowling

20. Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
— J. K. Rowling

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