Harry Potter Quotes (all books included)

"Don't you see? 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 that rises against them and strikes back!"

Albus Dumbledore

"Exactly,' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Albus Dumbledore

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

Albus Dumbledore

"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

"If he could only have understood the precise and terrible power of that sacrifice, he would not, perhaps, have dared to touch your blood... But then, if he had been able to understand, he could not be Lord Voldemort, and might never have murdered at all."

Albus Dumbledore

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

Albus Dumbledore

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

Albus Dumbledore

"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

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

Albus Dumbledore

"There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness... It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

Albus Dumbledore

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure: filled with fun, majesty, and a bit of mischief."

Albus Dumbledore

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

Albus Dumbledore

"At least no one on Gryffindor team had to buy their way in,' said Hermione sharply. 'They got in on pure talent."

Hermione Granger

"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

Hermione Granger

"Ron, just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."

Hermione Granger

"That was a Disarming Charm -- as you see, I've lost my wand -- ah, thank you, Miss Brown -- yes, an excellent idea to show them that, Professor Snape, but if you don't mind my saying so, it was very obvious what you were about to do. If I had wanted to stop you, it would have been only too easy -- however, I felt it would be instructive to let them see..."

Lockhart

"Do not lie to Lord Voldemort, for he knows...he always knows..."

Lord Voldemort

"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies."

Lord Voldemort

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

Lord Voldemort

"You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club."

Ron Weasley

"Ah, yes,' he said softly, 'Harry Potter. Our new — celebrity."

Severus Snape

"Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily - weak people in other words-..."

Severus Snape

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."

Severus Snape

"You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them — I, the Half-Blood Prince! And you'd turn them on me like your filthy father, would you? I don't think so...No!"

Severus Snape

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. "

Sirus Black

"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED! DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!"

Sirus Black

"Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?"

Victor Krum

"Yeah, thirteen of us against one bloke who's not allowed to use magic; we've got no chance."

Fred Weasley

"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"

Garrick Ollivander

"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

"Well, we find we appreciate you more and more, Mum, now we're washing our own socks."

George Weasley

"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."

Ginny Weasley

"If there was a wizard of whom I would believe that they did not seek personal gain, it would be you, Harry Potter."

Griphook

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

Harry Potter

"Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword into Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should get some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban."

Harry Potter

"Listen, if you [Fred and George] don't take it [the gold], I'm throwing it down the drain. I don't want it and I don't need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long."

Harry Potter

"So it all comes down to this, doesn't it? Does the wand in your hand know its last master was Disarmed? Because if it does ... I am the true master of the Elder Wand."

Harry Potter

"That's what they should teach us here how girls' brains work ... it'd be more useful than Divination, anyway ..."

Harry Potter

"They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer ..."

Harry Potter

"[Harry] Yes. [Snape] Yes, sir. [Harry] There's no need to call me "sir", Professor."

Harry Potter

"You are blinded (...) by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, 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

"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?"

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. And I seem to have forgotten, lately..."

Albus Dumbledore

"You need preparing. You need arming. But most of all, you need constant, never ceasing vigilance."

Barty Crouch Jr

"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

"I haven't got any options! I've got to do it! He'll kill me! He'll kill my whole family!"

Draco Malfoy

"I don't think you're a waste of space...You saved my life."

Dudley Dursley

"I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from me. One hour."

Lord Voldemort

"Thank you so much Dobby for rescuing me from that cellar. It's so unfair that you had to die when you were so good and brave. I'll always remember what you did for us. I hope you're happy now."

Luna Lovegood

"You can laugh! But people used to believe that there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack."

Luna Lovegood

"Well, usually when a person shakes their head, they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans --"

Minerva McGonagall

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

Molly Weasley

"YOU COULD DO WITH TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY'S BOOK!"

Molly Weasley

"The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. I used to notice that when you did it, Harry."

Neville Longbottom

"And are they getting married in my bedroom? No! So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left -"

Ron Weasley

"HAVE YOU GONE MAD?" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"

Ron Weasley

"If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us, too!"

Ron Weasley

"Mum, do you honestly think You-Know-Who's going to be hiding behind a bookshelf in Flourish and Blotts?"

Ron Weasley

"ARE YOU MAD, MAD-EYE?"

Nymphadora Tonks

"Mad?' said Percy airily. 'He's a genius! Best wizard in the world! But he is a bit mad, yes. Potatoes, Harry?"

Percy Weasley

"I assure you that if you die, you need not hand it [homework] in."

Professor McGonagall

"It will happen tonight. The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by those who once followed. Tonight, before midnight, his servant will break free and rejoin his master, and with that servant's help, the Dark Lord will rise again, greater and more terrible than ever before..."

Professor Trelawney

"There's nothing you can do, Harry... nothing... he's gone."

Remus Lupin

"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