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Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge. -- J.k. Rowling
What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked.
Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes."
Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library. -- J.k. Rowling
This was one of those uncomfortable things Luna often said and which made Harry feel a squirming mixture of pity and embarrassment. Before -- J.k. Rowling
Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs. -- J.k. Rowling
Jealous? ... Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself. -- J.k. Rowling
Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment. -- J.k. Rowling
Now let's get upstairs and fight, or all the good Death Eaters'll be taken. -- J.k. Rowling
Right little ray of sunshine, aren't you?" said Ron. "You and Professor Trelawney should get together sometime. -- J.k. Rowling
I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
... Gladys Gudgeon writes weekly ... I just wish I knew why ... "
He paused, looking faintly puzzled, then beamed again and returned to his signing with renewed vigor. "I suspect it is simply my good looks ... -- J.k. Rowling
She marched toward the door, and as she did so she raised her wand. From the tip burst three silver cats with spectacle markings around their eyes. The Patronuses ran sleekly ahead, filling the spiral staircase with silvery light, as Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Luna hurried back down. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams." - George Weasly -- J.k. Rowling
So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-"
"No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams. -- J.k. Rowling
He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat. "You're fighting a losing battle there, dear," said his mirror in a wheezy voice. -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing. -- J.k. Rowling
Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns. -- J.k. Rowling
That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise -- J.k. Rowling
Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life, Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting. -- J.k. Rowling
What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him. -- J.k. Rowling
Go on, have a pasty, said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten). -- J.k. Rowling
You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry could not stand this, he could not stand being Harry anymore. . . . He had never felt more trapped inside his own head and body, never wished so intensely that he could be somebody - anybody - else. . . -- J.k. Rowling
I'll join you when Hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dumbledore's Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort's Silencing Charms seemed unable to hold. -- J.k. Rowling
We didn't give it to him because he's a Muggle!" said Fred indignantly. "No, we gave it to him because he's a great bullying git," said George. "Isn't he, Harry?" "Yeah, he is, Mr. Weasley," said Harry earnestly. -- J.k. Rowling
I assert our inalienable right to party', which drew cheers from all present. -- J.k. Rowling
For one brief, the great black dog reared onto its hind legs and placed its front paws on Harry's shoulders, but Mrs. Weasley shoved Harry away toward the train door hissing, For heaven's sake act more like a dog, Sirius! -- J.k. Rowling
the phoenix feather in Harry's wand had come from the same bird that had supplied the core of Lord Voldemort's. -- J.k. Rowling
Professor," Harry gasped. "Your bird - I couldn't do anything - he just caught fire - -- J.k. Rowling
She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared. -- J.k. Rowling
judging from what he had just seen, his father had been every bit as arrogant as Snape had always told him. -- J.k. Rowling
How's Norbert doin'?"
Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
Wha - Norbert's a girl? -- J.k. Rowling
Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
"Wha
Norbert's a girl?"
"Oh yeah," said Charlie.
"How can you tell?" asked Hermoine.
"They're a lot more vicious," said Charlie. -- J.k. Rowling
Is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken? -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
When she tallied kindness she subtracted abandonment. -- J.k. Rowling
Would Dumbledore have let me teach at this great school, put so much trust in me all these years, had I not proved myself to him? -- J.k. Rowling
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. -- J.k. Rowling
Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose. -- J.k. Rowling
Listen, Harr,y can I have a go on it? Can I?"
"I don't think anyone should ride that broom just yet!" said Hermoine shrilly.
Harry and Ron looked at her.
"What d'you think Harry's going to do with it - sweep the floor?" said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow. -- J.k. Rowling
Scorpius trots up to his dad.
Draco: We can hug too if you like ...
Scorpius looks at his dad, unsure for a moment. And then they sort of half hug in a very awkward way. Draco smiles. -- J.k. Rowling
He didn't seem at all upset at being almost knocked to the ground. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape is all grey. You can't make him a saint: he was vindictive & bullying. You can't make him a devil: he died to save the wizarding world. -- J.k. Rowling
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad. -- J.k. Rowling
The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally. -- J.k. Rowling
All the same, we should get to bed," whispered Hermione. "It wouldn't do to oversleep tomorrow."
"No," agreed Ron. "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding. -- J.k. Rowling
ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library. -- J.k. Rowling
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. -- J.k. Rowling
Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous. -- J.k. Rowling
she wasn't exactly hard to miss. -- J.k. Rowling
I mean, it's sort of exciting isn't it? Breaking the rules"
Hermione granger
Harry Potter and the order of the phenix -- J.k. Rowling
Wow! said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster. -- J.k. Rowling
But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry would have pointed out that trouble didn't come much worse than having slugs pouring out of your mouth, but he couldn't; Hagrid's treacle toffee had cemented his jaws together. -- J.k. Rowling
About how you survived when You-Know-Who tried to kill you and how he disappeared and everything and how you've still got a lightning scar on your forehead" (his eyes raked Harry's hairline) "and a boy in my dormitory said if I develop the film in the right potion, the pictures'll move. -- J.k. Rowling
He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back. -- J.k. Rowling
Too late now. Three. Two. One. Molliare! He -- J.k. Rowling
He's on our side now," said Hermione -- J.k. Rowling
As I sat here, absorbed in my needlework, the urge to consult the orb overpowered me. I arose, I settled myself before it, and I gazed into its crystalline depths . . . and what do you think I saw gazing back at me?" "An ugly old bat in outsize specs?" Ron muttered under his breath. -- J.k. Rowling
The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick. -- J.k. Rowling
Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many. -- J.k. Rowling
She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry was bleeding. -- J.k. Rowling
Rushing off to the Ministry the night that he had died. Harry clung to this notion, because it -- J.k. Rowling
By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You -- J.k. Rowling
If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you. -- J.k. Rowling
Scorpius: Still, if I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.
Albus: No offense, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too? -- J.k. Rowling
We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. -- J.k. Rowling
Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room.
"Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset. -- J.k. Rowling
You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all. -- J.k. Rowling
Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Rock bottom became the solid foundation of what I built my life -- J.k. Rowling
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it. -- J.k. Rowling
Its okay Ginny. Don't be upset. We'll send you a toilet seat or something. Fred and George said to Ginny -- J.k. Rowling
Yer ticket fer Hogwarts," he said. "First o' September - King's Cross - it's all on yer ticket. Any problems with the Dursleys, send me a letter with yer owl, she'll know where to find me. . . . See yeh soon, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling -- J.k. Rowling
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple. -- J.k. Rowling
HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I-WANT-TO-TALK-TO-HARRY-POTTER! -- J.k. Rowling
I'm a what?" gasped Harry.
"A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be? -- J.k. Rowling
When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone's got? Of course he isn't ... It'll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown. -- J.k. Rowling
A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un, I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be? An' I reckon it's abou' time yeh read yer letter. -- J.k. Rowling
I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation," he said, "and I am sure he will perform it admirably. -- J.k. Rowling
I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, he'll try, I'm sure ... The usual empty words, the usual slithering out of action ... oh, on the Dark Lord's orders, of course! -- J.k. Rowling
Thought I'd send this with Pig anyway. Harry stared at the word "Pig," then looked up at the tiny owl now zooming around the light fixture on the ceiling. He had never seen anything that looked less like a pig. Maybe he couldn't read Ron's writing. -- J.k. Rowling
Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. -- J.k. Rowling
It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there, because it's not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it's that cold absence of feeling - that really hollowed-out feeling. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't you call me an idiot!" said Neville. "I don't think you should be breaking any more rules! And you were the one who told me to stand up to people!" "Yes, but not to us," said Ron in exasperation. -- J.k. Rowling
I must not tell lies. -- J.k. Rowling
You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry
"
"They won't," said Harry.
"That you're safe
"
"That'll just depress them."
"
and you'll see them next summer."
"Do I have to? -- J.k. Rowling
Up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, -- J.k. Rowling
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. -- J.k. Rowling
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander The -- J.k. Rowling
HARRY: "The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
(GINNY looks at him, surprised.)
Dumbledore.
GINNY: A strange thing to say to a child.
HARRY: Not when you believe that child will have to die to save the world. -- J.k. Rowling
What's that?" said one of the twins suddenly, pointing at Harry's lightning scar. "Blimey," said the other twin. "Are you - ?" "He is," said the first twin. "Aren't you?" he added to Harry. "What?" said Harry. "Harry Potter," chorused the twins. -- J.k. Rowling
I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life. -- J.k. Rowling
I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, Montague tried to do us during break," said George.
"What do you mean, 'tried'?" said Ron quickly.
"He never managed to get all the words out," said Fred, "due to the fact that we forced him headfirst into that Vanishing Cabinet on the first floor. -- J.k. Rowling
We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that. -- J.k. Rowling
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, you have to wait for somebody who gets it right.' said Luna. 'That way you learn, you see? -- J.k. Rowling
There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it? -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant. -- J.k. Rowling
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat! -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not going to be murdered,' Harry said out loud.
'That's the spirit, dear,' said his mirror sleepily. -- J.k. Rowling
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second -- J.k. Rowling
Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a layer of crisp snow; there were holly wreaths on the doors and strings of enchanted candles hanging in the trees. -- J.k. Rowling
He forgot about being cross with her -- J.k. Rowling
I am here to help. I am your friend. -- J.k. Rowling
You'd better get lost before my bones come back, Dobby, or I might strangle you." Dobby smiled weakly. "Dobby is used to death threats, sir. Dobby gets them five times a day at home. -- J.k. Rowling
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling. -- J.k. Rowling
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. -- J.k. Rowling
I will if you go out with me, Evans -- J.k. Rowling
And what in the name of Merlin's most baggy Y Fronts was that about? -- J.k. Rowling
On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far. -- J.k. Rowling
Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter? -- J.k. Rowling
Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. -- J.k. Rowling
Professor Severus Snape was Harry's least favorite teacher. Harry also happened to be Snape's least favorite student. -- J.k. Rowling
Crackers! said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape could send Phineas Nigellus to look inside the house for him," Hermione explained to Ron as she resumed her seat. "But let him try it now, all Phineas Nigellus will be able to see is the inside of my handbag."
"Good thinking!" said Ron, looking impressed. -- J.k. Rowling
Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?"
"Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed ... Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
I, Professor S. Snape, give the Slytherin team permission to practice today on the Quidditch field owing to the need to train their new Seeker. -- J.k. Rowling
So all I've got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone," Harry went on feverishly, "then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off. ... Well, I suppose Bane'll be happy. -- J.k. Rowling
DON'T CALL ME COWARD! -- J.k. Rowling
What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?'
'Don't look shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?'
'Lately, only those whom I could not save', said Snape. -- J.k. Rowling
And since when have he and Snape been on first-name terms?' said -- J.k. Rowling
Our Headmaster is taking a short break,' said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
I think I'd better do the actual stealing," Hermione continued in a matter-of-fact tone. "You two will be expelled if you get into anymore trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all of you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so. -- J.k. Rowling
Fifty points from Gryffindor for lateness, I think," said Snape. "And, let me see, another twenty for your Muggle attire. You know, I don't believe any House has ever been in negative figures this early in the term: We haven't even started pudding. You might have set a record, Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
DON'T - " screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them - "CALL ME COWARD! -- J.k. Rowling
Potter!" said Snape suddenly. "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Powdered -- J.k. Rowling
Tell Albus - tell Albus Severus - I'm proud he carries my name. -- J.k. Rowling
I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter - -- J.k. Rowling
Orange, Longbottom. -- J.k. Rowling
Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape : Sometimes costs are made to be borne. -- J.k. Rowling
I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death. -- J.k. Rowling
Look . . . at . . . me. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
Severus," said Dumbledore, turning to Snape, "you know what I must ask you to do. If you are ready . . . if you are prepared . . ." "I am," said Snape. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter is dead. -- J.k. Rowling
You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon ... -- J.k. Rowling
Their Invisibility Cloak didn't stop them making any noise, and there was a particularly tense moment when Ron stubbed his toe only yards from the spot where Snape stood standing guard. Thankfully, Snape sneezed at almost exactly the moment Ron swore. -- J.k. Rowling
I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow," Snape went on. "That tree did more damage to us than we - " Ron blurted out. "Silence!" snapped Snape -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
Avada Kedavra! -- J.k. Rowling
Professor McGonagall raised her wand again and pointed it at Snape's desk. A large plate of sandwiches, two silver goblets and a jug of iced pumpkin juice appeared with a pop. -- J.k. Rowling
An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can't have ... Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?"
"Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow ... "
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. -- J.k. Rowling
We attacked a teacher. . . . We attacked a teacher . . . ," Hermione whimpered, staring at the lifeless Snape with frightened eyes. "Oh, we're going to be in so much trouble - -- J.k. Rowling
Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled. -- J.k. Rowling
Turn to page 394. -- J.k. Rowling
It is real, isn't it? It's not a joke? Petunia says you're lying to me. Petunia says there isn't a Hogwarts. It is real, isn't it?"
"It's real for us," said Snape. "Not for her. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry didn't see how he could - yet he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius pushed his chair roughly aside and strode around the table toward Snape, pulling out his wand as he went; Snape whipped out his own. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape, of course, would no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard. -- J.k. Rowling
One person. All it takes is one person.
-Severus Snape , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -- J.k. Rowling
The popular idea of a Potions expert within the wizarding community is of a brooding, slow-burning personality: Snape, in fact, conforms perfectly to the stereotype. -- J.k. Rowling
SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness -- J.k. Rowling
I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses ... -- J.k. Rowling
It was Snape who had overheard the prophecy. It was Snape who had carried the news of the prophecy to Voldemort. Snape and Peter Pettigrew together had sent Voldemort hunting after Lily and James and their son -- J.k. Rowling
But Snape always seemed to hate me so much. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That was his tragedy. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape: How?
Scorpius: Bravely.
Snape: Who?
Scorpius: Voldemort.
Snape: How very irritating. -- J.k. Rowling
Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison. -- J.k. Rowling
Whoops - My wand is a little over excited! -- J.k. Rowling
Detention, Saturday night, my office," said Snape. "I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter . . . not even 'the Chosen One.' -- J.k. Rowling
Thought we were supposed to be friends? Best friends?"
"We are, Sev. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. -- J.k. Rowling
There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done. -- J.k. Rowling
Thank you, Severus," said Dumbledore firmly, and Snape went quiet, though his eyes still glinted malevolently through his curtain of greasy black hair. -- J.k. Rowling
That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger," said Snape coolly. "Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all. -- J.k. Rowling
Look ... at ... me ... he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more. -- J.k. Rowling
By the end of the first Potions lesson, he knew he'd been wrong. Snape didn't dislike Harry - he hated him. -- J.k. Rowling
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo. -- J.k. Rowling
Extra lessons with Snape?" said Ron, sounding aghast. "I'd rather have the nightmares! -- J.k. Rowling
Snape killed . . . Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school ... -- J.k. Rowling
SCORPIUS: A doe? Lily's Patronus. SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within. -- J.k. Rowling
It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. -- J.k. Rowling
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph? -- J.k. Rowling
Mr Prongs agrees with Mr Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. -- J.k. Rowling
Course Dumbledore trusts you," growled Moody. "He's a trusting man, isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me - I say there are spots that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean? -- J.k. Rowling
By six o'clock that evening, however, even the glow of having successfully asked out Cho Chang was insufficient to lighten the ominous feelings that intensified with every step Harry took toward Snape's office. -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort held up a large white hand, and Yaxley subsided at once, watching resentfully as Voldemort turned back to Snape. -- J.k. Rowling
What are you doing, Potter?" said Snape coldly as ever, as he strode over to the four of them. "I'm trying to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, sir," said Harry fiercely. -- J.k. Rowling
SNAPE: "Did no one teach you to knock, boy?"
Scorpius looks up at Snape, slightly breathless, slightly unsure, slightly exultant.
SCORPIUS: "Severus Snape. This is an honor. -- J.k. Rowling
All we'd need would be some Polyjuice Potion'
'What's what?' said Ron and Harry together.
'Snape mentioned it in class a few week ago - '
'D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Potions than listen to Snape?' muttered Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children. -- J.k. Rowling
On the count of three, we will cast our first spells. Neither of us will be aiming to kill, of course." "I wouldn't bet on that," Harry murmured, watching Snape baring his teeth. -- J.k. Rowling
I wish ... I wish I were dead ... "
"And what use would that be to anyone? -- J.k. Rowling
Show yourself!" Snape said, tapping the map sharply. It stayed blank. Harry was taking deep, calming breaths. "Professor Severus Snape, master of this school, commands you to yield the information you conceal!" Snape said, hitting the map with his wand. -- J.k. Rowling
Well then, you'll know he's so arrogant that criticism simply bounces off him, Snape said sleekly. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you. -- J.k. Rowling
Fascinating," said Snape, without looking at it. -- J.k. Rowling
Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother ... -- J.k. Rowling
Ah, yes. Harry Potter. Our new - celebrity. -- J.k. Rowling
Following a private conversation with Harry, Minerva McGonagall later took the controversial decision to add a portrait of Severus Snape to the gallery of old headmasters and headmistresses in her tower office. -- J.k. Rowling
THE SACKING OF SEVERUS SNAPE -- J.k. Rowling
One of the essays, a particularly nasty one about Shrinking Potions, was for Harry's least favourite teacher, Professor Snape, who would be delighted to have an excuse to give Harry detention for a month. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
SEVERUS SNAPE CONFIRMED AS HOGWARTS HEADMASTER -- J.k. Rowling
The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter ... or at least, most minds are ... -- J.k. Rowling
Poisonous toadstools don't change their spots. -- J.k. Rowling
All she had left of her old life and her old uncertainties was attacking familiar targets. -- J.k. Rowling
roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, chips, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup and, for some strange reason, mint humbugs. The -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, because we really need a bit more fear in our lives -- J.k. Rowling
The four brothers and three sisters were by all accounts a formidable team who rarely lost a match, partly, it is said, because of the intimidation felt by opposing teams at the sight of Walter standing on the sidelines with a wand in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other. -- J.k. Rowling
But he's there! Potter's there! Someone grab him! -- J.k. Rowling
Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people ... I don't know who, it was dark ... I stepped over the body ... I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way. -- J.k. Rowling
I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way ... "
"Yes, they do that," said Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius. He pulled off the parchment, unrolled it, and saw the -- J.k. Rowling
You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends. -- J.k. Rowling
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
I don't believe in magic. -- J.k. Rowling
But it's not so much having to repair the damage, it's more the attitude behind the vandalism, Harry. Muggle-baiting might strike some wizards as funny, but it's an expression of something much deeper and nastier ... -- J.k. Rowling
Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they? -- J.k. Rowling
Welcome," said Hagrid, "to Diagon Alley. -- J.k. Rowling
I killed Sirius Black! -- J.k. Rowling
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? -- J.k. Rowling
Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive. -- J.k. Rowling
For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry ... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself. -- J.k. Rowling
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear? -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."
"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling. -- J.k. Rowling
The first story I finished was when I was six years old. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't care if you fall off your broom as long as you catch the Snitch first. -- J.k. Rowling
It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.. -- J.k. Rowling
SCORPIUS: You loved his mother. I don't remember everything. I know you loved his mother. Harry's mother. Lily. I know you spent years undercover. I know without you the war could never have been won. -- J.k. Rowling
Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went. -- J.k. Rowling
Mrs. Weasley was marching across the yard, scattering chickens, and for a short, plump, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a saber-toothed tiger. -- J.k. Rowling
A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of. -- J.k. Rowling
Because if taken in excess, it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence,' said Slughorn. 'Too much of a good thing, you know . . . highly toxic in large quantities. But taken sparingly, and very occasionally . . . -- J.k. Rowling
The din of loud voices and the clatter of cutlery on plates echoed from out of the double doors to the Great Hall. It seemed incredible to Harry that twenty feet away were people who were enjoying dinner, celebrating the end of exams, not a care in the world... p. 751 -- J.k. Rowling
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. -- J.k. Rowling
Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others. -- J.k. Rowling
DELPHI/HERMIONE: What have you done? SCORPIUS/HARRY: I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has - in all my years on this planet - never been a particularly dangerous activity. The -- J.k. Rowling
Mr Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a Professor. -- J.k. Rowling
Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. -- J.k. Rowling
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. -- J.k. Rowling
Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel - Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. -- J.k. Rowling
A little extra wisdom never goes amiss. -- J.k. Rowling
The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky. -- J.k. Rowling
she said weakly. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ... -- J.k. Rowling
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry groaned, looking down. Divination was his least favorite subject, apart from Potions. Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry's death, which he found extremely annoying. -- J.k. Rowling
they threw apples for -- J.k. Rowling
In many, many ways ... Hufflepuff is my favorite house. -- J.k. Rowling
You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time you learned some respect!'
'It's time you earned it,' said Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Mrs. Figg, their batty old neighbor, came panting into sight. Her grizzled gray -- J.k. Rowling
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. -- J.k. Rowling
Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, -- J.k. Rowling
It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now ... nine people, two grown men, clutching this manky old boot in the semi-darkness, waiting ... -- J.k. Rowling
How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, -- J.k. Rowling
We've been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making things," said Ginny. "We thought they just liked the noise. -- J.k. Rowling
You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore."
"Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen. -- J.k. Rowling
( ... ) "to have a hairy heart" has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfeeling witch or wizard. -- J.k. Rowling
I hate being poor. -- J.k. Rowling
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world. -- J.k. Rowling
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
An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of wings, they were flying upward through the pipe. Harry could hear Lockhart dangling bellow him, saying, Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic! -- J.k. Rowling
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. -- J.k. Rowling
He was finding it hard at the moment to decide whether he wanted to be with people or not. -- J.k. Rowling
The sleet-spattered windows were rattling in their frames, and the room was chilly despite the fire crackling in the grate. -- J.k. Rowling
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry and Hermione supported Ron over the threshold, into the one-roomed cabin, which had an enormous bed in one corner, a fire crackling merrily in another. Hagrid -- J.k. Rowling
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. -- J.k. Rowling
The best of us must sometimes eat our words. -- J.k. Rowling
The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes - and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead. -- J.k. Rowling
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. -- J.k. Rowling
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be. -- J.k. Rowling
Are you threatening me, sir?" he said, so loudly that passersby actually turned to stare. "Yes, I am," said Mad-Eye, who seemed rather pleased that Uncle Vernon had grasped this fact so quickly. -- J.k. Rowling
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. -- J.k. Rowling
So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes ... of course ... but there's no wood!" ...
"HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT! -- J.k. Rowling
There is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond -- J.k. Rowling
SCORPIUS: The what? The where? Look, I am as excited as you are to be a rebel for the first time in my life - yay - train roof - fun - but now - oh. -- J.k. Rowling
I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME! -- J.k. Rowling
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
They're evacuating the younger kids and everyone's meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We're fighting. -- J.k. Rowling
I am not being ridiculous," said Lupin steadily. "Tonks deserves somebody young and whole." "But she wants you," said Mr. Weasley, with a small smile. "And after all, Remus, young and whole men do not necessarily remain so. -- J.k. Rowling
RON: Only- friends. Funny word- friends. Not that funny. Just a word, really. Friends. Friend. Funny friend. You, my funny friend, my Hermoine. Not that- not my Hermoine, you understand- not MY Hermoine- not MINE- you know, but... -- J.k. Rowling
When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy. -- J.k. Rowling
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. -- J.k. Rowling
Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle. -- J.k. Rowling
Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. -- J.k. Rowling
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference. -- J.k. Rowling
This diary holds memories of terrible things. Things that were covered up. Things that happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- J.k. Rowling
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. -- J.k. Rowling
Pass the frying pan."
"You've forgotten the magic word," said Harry irritably. -- J.k. Rowling
His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother," said Ron irritably. "Is that normal, Hermione? -- J.k. Rowling
Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon. -- J.k. Rowling
Have another biscuit," she said irritably, thrusting the tin at him. "No, thanks," said Harry coldly. "Don't be ridiculous," she snapped. He took one. "Thanks," he said grudgingly. -- J.k. Rowling
From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron. -- J.k. Rowling
These rapid scribbles, the pixels arranged by fingers henceforth forever still, acquired the macabre aspect of husks. -- J.k. Rowling
Uncle Vernon made another funny noise, like a mouse being trodden on. -- J.k. Rowling
Queenie: (trying to cheer him up) I'll come with you. We'll go somewhere - we'll go anywhere - see I ain't never gonna find anyone like -
Jacob: (bravely) There's loads like me.
Queenie: No... no...there's only one like you. -- J.k. Rowling
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. -- J.k. Rowling
Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked.
"Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully.
"Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing. -- J.k. Rowling
And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. -- J.k. Rowling
As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry took out his wand, murmured, "Lumos!" and a tiny light appeared at the end of it, just enough to let them watch the path for signs of spiders. "Good thinking," said Ron. "I'd light mine, too, but you know - it'd probably blow up or something. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
But words were no longer enough, smashing things was no more help. He wanted to run, he wanted to keep running and never look back ... -- J.k. Rowling
What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! -- J.k. Rowling
Good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything. -- J.k. Rowling
At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having -- J.k. Rowling
Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one. Privately, Harry felt she'd had good reason, because Neville managed to have an extraordinary number of accidents even with both feet on the ground. -- J.k. Rowling
I should have made my meaning plainer," said Professor McGonagall, turning at last to look Umbridge directly in the eyes. "He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher." Professor Umbridge's smile vanished as suddenly as a lightbulb blowing. She -- J.k. Rowling
You have to be free to fail in this world. -- J.k. Rowling
rather rude, you know," said Luna serenely. -- J.k. Rowling
I had an old typewriter and a big idea. -- J.k. Rowling
This had been his world and he had been happy there. For all the inconveniences and hardships of military life, for all that he had emerged from the army minus half his leg, he did not regret a day of the time he had spent serving. -- J.k. Rowling
Anything is possible if yo've got enough nerve, -- J.k. Rowling
For those who seeks , will find . -- J.k. Rowling
The time has come for Slytherin House to decide upon its loyalties. -- J.k. Rowling
Elderly witches and wizards still use the saying 'I'll take Cadogan's pony' to mean, 'I'll salvage the best I can from a tricky situation'. -- J.k. Rowling
Listen, the fact that they haven't caught him yet's one hell of an achievement, -- J.k. Rowling
But Hogwarts is hidden," said Hermione, in surprise. "Everyone knows that ... well, everyone who's read Hogwarts, A History, anyway." "Just you, then," said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Welcome to Hogwarts, -- J.k. Rowling
That's what you're up against. That's what I've got to teach you to fight. You need preparing. You need arming. But most of all, you need to practice constant, never-ceasing vigilance. Get out your quills . . . copy this down. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
My life was nothing but misery at this place and now people come along ruining my death! -- J.k. Rowling
But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. -- J.k. Rowling
Defensive spells?" Professor Umbridge repeated with a little laugh. "Why, I can't imagine any situation arising in my classroom that would require you to use a defensive spell, Miss Granger. You surely aren't expecting to be attacked during class? -- J.k. Rowling
Harry had never been to London before. Although Hagrid seemed to know where he was going, he was obviously not used to getting there in an ordinary way. He got stuck in the ticket barrier on the Underground, and complained loudly that the seats were too small and the trains too slow. -- J.k. Rowling
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil. -- J.k. Rowling
The full list of these fouls, however, has never been made available to the wizarding public. It is the Department's view that witches and wizards who see the list 'might get ideas'. -- J.k. Rowling
Avery was being punished. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
You don't understand - there are things worth dying for! -- J.k. Rowling
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye. -- J.k. Rowling
Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?'
'How did you ... ?'
'Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George. -- J.k. Rowling
No more'n four to a boat!" Hagrid called, pointing to a fleet of little boats sitting in the water by the shore. Harry and Ron were followed into their boat by Neville and Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
And anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it? -- J.k. Rowling
Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'.
'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore turned back to look out of the fiery window; the sun was now a ruby red glare along the horizon. -- J.k. Rowling
And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to see Death Eaters fighting those. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy. -- J.k. Rowling
Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. Paint . . . and memory . . . and love. -- J.k. Rowling
However, like many creatures that dwell in cold and darkness, they fear light and warmth, which we shall therefore call to our aid should the need arise. -- J.k. Rowling
He saw Ron and Neville bringing down Fenrir Greyback, Aberforth Stunning Rookwood, Arthur and Percy flooring Thicknesse, and Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy running through the crowd, not even attempting to fight, screaming for their son. -- J.k. Rowling
The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead. -- J.k. Rowling
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even ... knowledge, was foolproof. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everything to him, and even after he left -"
"This is You-Know-Who we're talking about, right? Not you?" inquired Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Spiders ... the spiders ... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance! -- J.k. Rowling
Harry the spider! they want me to tap dance. I don't want to tap dance! -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
HARRY: "Oh, Draco . . . we can't. We can't use it."
Draco looks up at Harry, and for the first time - at the bottom of this dreadful pit - they look at each other as friends.
DRACO: "We have to find them - if it takes centuries, we must find our sons - -- J.k. Rowling
Well, if all three of us go we'll have to Disapparate separately," Ron was saying. "We can't all fit under the Cloak anymore. -- J.k. Rowling
The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. -- J.k. Rowling
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' - 'The Boy Who Scored' - whatever they call you these days. -- J.k. Rowling
How d'you spell 'belligerent'?" said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. "It can't be B - U - M - "
"No, it isn't," said Hermione. "And 'augury' doesn't begin O - R - G either. -- J.k. Rowling
I haven't got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even," said Fred, looking over at Ron's crumpled figure. "Mind you ... when he missed the fourteenth ... "
He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle.
"Well, I'll save it for parties, eh? -- J.k. Rowling
And I gave Malfoy a black eye, and Neville tried to take on Crabbe and Goyle single-handed! He's still out cold but Madam Pomfrey says he'll be all right - talk about showing Slytherin! -- J.k. Rowling
The usual," said Ron indifferently, demonstrating a rude hand gesture. -- J.k. Rowling
Newt Scamander : "My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice. -- J.k. Rowling
Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods ... -- J.k. Rowling
Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about. -- J.k. Rowling
Have the gist of the spell. -- J.k. Rowling
But she's ditched Dean! -- J.k. Rowling
Queenie: People are easiest to read when they're hurting. -- J.k. Rowling
He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up. -- J.k. Rowling
Famous Harry Potter and all that. I'd hate to see what the Ministry'd do to me if I blew up an aunt. Mind you, they'd have to dig me up first, because Mum would've killed me. -- J.k. Rowling
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so. -- J.k. Rowling
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life. -- J.k. Rowling
Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry and Ron had barely finished their third helpings of Christmas pudding when Hermione ushered them out of the Hall to finalise their plans for the evening. -- J.k. Rowling
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. -- J.k. Rowling
Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise. -- J.k. Rowling
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.' -- J.k. Rowling
I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late ... What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?"
"Nothing - nothing, my Lord!"
"Such lies, Lucius ... -- J.k. Rowling
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal. -- J.k. Rowling
Saturday next, at nightfall." The -- J.k. Rowling
You're not endangering my wife and son, you're not bringing trouble down on us, if you're going the same way as your useless parents, I -- J.k. Rowling
Tut, tut - fame clearly isn't everything. -- J.k. Rowling
I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they've nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate. -- J.k. Rowling
All right Arthur?" said the wizard, nodding at Mr Weasley. "What've you got there, Bob?" asked Mr Weasley, looking that the box.
"We're not sure," said the wizard seriously. "We thought it was a bog standard chicken until it started breathing fire. -- J.k. Rowling
No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort. -- J.k. Rowling
to linger in the factory after clocking-off time (though now a manager, simon had never ceased to think in the terms of his apprenticeship) would constitute a fatal admission that your home life was lacking or, worse, that you were trying to brownnose senior management -- J.k. Rowling
The point is, if we find out you've been horrible to Harry - "
" - and make no mistake, we'll hear about it.
"even if you won't let Harry use the fellytone - "
"Telephone -- J.k. Rowling
We could be killed. Or worse expelled! -- J.k. Rowling
It was Hagrid, Ron. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago. -- J.k. Rowling
This is all your fault," George said angrily to Wood. "'Get the Snitch or die trying,' what a stupid thing to tell him - -- J.k. Rowling
There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage. -- J.k. Rowling
Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. ALBUS -- J.k. Rowling
And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me - '
'JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall.
'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest - -- J.k. Rowling
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
It was a bit late to repair the damage, but Harry swore to himself not to meddle in things that weren't his business from now on. He'd had it with sneaking around and spying. -- J.k. Rowling
Control your emotions! Discipline your mind! -- J.k. Rowling
THE JOURNEY FROM PLATFORM NINE AND THREE-QUARTERS H -- J.k. Rowling
The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So - that's sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?"
"What's basketball?" said Wood curiously.
"Never mind," said Harry quickly. -- J.k. Rowling
If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
- Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
The Silkworm -- J.k. Rowling
It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father's - friendship. -- J.k. Rowling
Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped cut, like a bolt of lightning. -- J.k. Rowling
What do you see when you look in the Mirror?'
'I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woollen socks.'
Harry stared
'One can never have enough socks,' said Dumbledore -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Wordlessly, Kay stroked his arm, reflecting that she had never been able to afford to go to pieces. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist. -- J.k. Rowling
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying. -- J.k. Rowling
When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him.
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, Wow
we're identical! -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?"
"Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out. -- J.k. Rowling
No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, did you ever even open A History of Magic? -- J.k. Rowling
Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry took Malfoy's Shrivelfig as Ron set about trying to repair the damage to the roots he now had to use. Harry skinned the Shrivelfig as fast as he could and flung it back across the table at Malfoy without speaking. Malfoy was smirking more broadly than ever. -- J.k. Rowling
Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets, said Hagrid wisely. -- J.k. Rowling
While Muggles have been told that Black is carrying a gun (a kind of metal wand that Muggles use to kill each other), the magical community lives in fear of a massacre like -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?'
'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack. -- J.k. Rowling
. . . and tiny little ears," Luna was saying, "a bit like a hippo's, Daddy says, only purple and hairy. And if you want to call them, you have to hum; they prefer a waltz, nothing too fast. . . ." Looking -- J.k. Rowling
That's Xenophilius Lovegood, he's the father of a friend of ours,' said Ron. His pugnacious tone indicated that they were not about to laugh at Xenophilius, despite the clear provocation. 'Come and dance,' he added abruptly to Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
So given a Time-Turner, I'd tell my 21 self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or archievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life. -- J.k. Rowling
Tread carefully when using a Time-Turner, stop searching for the Chamber of Secrets - unless you're a Parselmouth - and don't linger too long before the Mirror of Erised. -- J.k. Rowling
Shh! Listen! Someone's coming! I think - I think it might be us! -- J.k. Rowling
Three turns should do it. -- J.k. Rowling
Dobby cannot let Harry Potter lose his Wheezy! -- J.k. Rowling
Professor Mcgonagall: Why is it when something bad happens, it's always you three? Ron: Believe me, professor, I've been asking myself the exact same thing for the past six years. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry was particularly keen to avoid trouble with his aunt and uncle at the moment, as they were already in an especially bad mood with him, all because he'd received a telephone call from a fellow wizard one week into the school vacation. -- J.k. Rowling
The only way out is through. -- J.k. Rowling
Krystal hated folders. All the stuff they wrote about you, and kept, and used against you afterwards. -- J.k. Rowling
They were no match for her, even though there were four of them against one of her: She was a witch, as Harry knew, with prodigious skill and no conscience. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains. -- J.k. Rowling
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life ... -- J.k. Rowling
In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy.
"The moment they start trying to move into each other's pots, we'll know they're fully mature," she told Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
To nobody's surprise, Professor Sprout started their lesson by lecturing them about the importance of O.W.L.s. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Bubotubers," Professor Sprout told them briskly. "They need squeezing. You will collect the pus - "
"The what?" said Seamus Finnigan, sounding revolted.
"Pus, Finnigan, pus," said Professor Sprout. -- J.k. Rowling
book: Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean. "Apparently, Professor Sprout told Professor Moody I'm really good at Herbology," Neville said. There was a faint note of pride in his voice that Harry had rarely heard there before. "He thought I'd like this. -- J.k. Rowling
Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? - it likes the dark and the damp - " "So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes - of course - but there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing her hands. -- J.k. Rowling
When writing fantasy
novels, one must be careful what one
invents. For every benefit, there is
usually a drawback. -- J.k. Rowling
The Dursleys liked everything neat and ordered; the Weasleys' house burst with the strange and unexpected. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
They were there, both of them, sitting outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor - Ron looking incredibly freckly, Hermione very brown, both waving frantically at him. -- J.k. Rowling
Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?
a beat.
Newt: I'm more of a chaser, really. -- J.k. Rowling
You!' he shouted, and he thrust his hand into his pocket, but it was empty. 'Your wand's here, son,' said Ted, tapping it on Harry's arm. 'It fell right beside you, I picked it up. And that's my wife you're shouting at. -- J.k. Rowling
He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. -- J.k. Rowling
It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk? -- J.k. Rowling
That even though we've got a fight ahead of us, we've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have. - Something worth fighting for. -- J.k. Rowling
Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi -- J.k. Rowling
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink! -- J.k. Rowling
Gilderoy Lockhart -- J.k. Rowling
Once again I must ask too much of you, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
The owls are gathering; find out why soon. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione recited at top speed: "Golpalott's-Third-Law-states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components. -- J.k. Rowling
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Anyone can make a mistake," said Hermione. "And it doesn't hurt anymore, does it, Harry?" "No," said Harry, getting into bed. "But it doesn't do anything else either. -- J.k. Rowling
You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club. -- J.k. Rowling
IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY! -- J.k. Rowling
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. -- J.k. Rowling
Another song for Harry is don't tell'm by Jeremiah it compares to Harry because he got to keep as secret from everyone that he is a wizard and only his cousin, aunt, and uncle know -- J.k. Rowling
It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumours. -- J.k. Rowling
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare - -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort's fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. -- J.k. Rowling
The barman nodded and looked around for the elf. "Thought he'd be with you. Where've you left him?" "He's dead," said Harry. "Bellatrix Lestrange killed him. -- J.k. Rowling
Bellatrix Black, which was connected by a double line to Rodolphus Lestrange. -- J.k. Rowling
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming. -- J.k. Rowling
The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help? -- J.k. Rowling
You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
"What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.
"What did you have to imitate her for?"
"She laughed at my mustache!"
"So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. -- J.k. Rowling
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. -- J.k. Rowling
He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized, because, by the law of averages, one of them was bound to come true one day. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and Harry was left -- J.k. Rowling
And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
"Well ... " said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley. -- J.k. Rowling
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two! -- J.k. Rowling
The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley's favorite things - fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers - and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called rabbit food. -- J.k. Rowling
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall. -- J.k. Rowling
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 -- J.k. Rowling
There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry," said Dumbledore's voice. "On the contrary . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength." Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful. -- J.k. Rowling
For some to love you, some must loathe you. -- J.k. Rowling
He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!
Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it. -- J.k. Rowling
cursed hat. It made his ears shrivel up." Harry laughed but didn't -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
I am going to keep going untill I succeed or die.
Don't think I don't know how this might end.
I've known it for years.
-Harry Potter -- J.k. Rowling
Good evening," said Ronan. "Students, are you? And do you learn much, up at the school?"
"Erm -"
"A bit," said Hermione timidly.
"A bit. Well, that's something." Ronan sighed. -- J.k. Rowling
They made their way down the drive in the gathering twilight. The air was full of the smells of warm grass, lake water, and wood smoke from Hagrid's cabin. It was difficult to believe that they were heading for anything dangerous or frightening. p. 553 -- J.k. Rowling
Neville had come lunging out of nowhere: Unable to articulate a spell, he had jabbed Hermione's wand hard into the eyehole of the Death Eater's mask. -- J.k. Rowling
Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing ... or at least"
he strolled confidently to the door
"Felix does. -- J.k. Rowling
Now, I don't want any of you youngsters to worry - you'll still have your Potions master when I'm through with him, never fear!" "Wouldn't it be good if they finished each other off?" Ron muttered in Harry's ear. -- J.k. Rowling
My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died, said Riddle -- J.k. Rowling
No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. -- J.k. Rowling
I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. -- J.k. Rowling
Old photograph of his father, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew, -- J.k. Rowling
Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure. -- J.k. Rowling
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say 'be careful' or 'don't do it', but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him. -- J.k. Rowling
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?"
"I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale. -- J.k. Rowling
I take my hat off to you - or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders. -- J.k. Rowling
Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business. -- J.k. Rowling
An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they what it was to be young ... and I seem to have forgotten lately ... -- J.k. Rowling
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it. -- J.k. Rowling
In the case of Harry and Lord Voldemort, to speak of one is to speak of the other. -- J.k. Rowling
Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward. -- J.k. Rowling
Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeh always wait fer the Hippogriff ter make the first move,' Hagrid continued. 'It's polite, see? Yeh walk towards him, and yeh bow, an' yeh wait. If he bows back, yeh're allowed to touch him. If he doesn' bow, then get away from him sharpish, 'cause those talons hurt. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't worry you're just like me -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini -- J.k. Rowling
Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts. -- J.k. Rowling
As far as there can be friendship between wizards and goblins, I have goblin friends - or, at least, goblins I know well, and like. -- J.k. Rowling
The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with people who were obviously very important wizards. Percy jumped to his feet so often that he looked as though he were trying to sit on a hedgehog. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know! -- J.k. Rowling
Griphook: (referring to a tiara) Moonstones and diamonds, Made by goblins, i think?
Bill: And paid for by wizards. -- J.k. Rowling
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's. -- J.k. Rowling
Large, tawny owl flutter past the window. At -- J.k. Rowling
She remembered telling a sturdy little girl in guidance that looks did not matter, that personality was much more important. What rubbish we tell children [ ... ]. -- J.k. Rowling
Training for the ballet, Potter? -- J.k. Rowling
But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account."
"Really?"
"It did for me," said Harry.
He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this, said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around. -- J.k. Rowling
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -- J.k. Rowling
Krystal's slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned. -- J.k. Rowling
What a beautiful place to be with friends. Dobby is happy to be with his friend ... Harry Potter ... -- J.k. Rowling
Dudley came waddling down the hall, his blond hair plastered flat to his fat head, a bow tie just visible under his many chins. -- J.k. Rowling
Killing rips the soul apart. -- J.k. Rowling
A curly-haired third-year Hufflepuff girl to whom Harry had never spoken in his life asked him to go to the ball with her the very next day. Harry was so taken aback he said no before he'd even stopped to consider the matter. The girl walked off looking rather hurt, -- J.k. Rowling
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. -- J.k. Rowling
If you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time, said Dumbledore, -- J.k. Rowling
Course aims: 1. Understanding the principles underlying defensive magic. 2. Learning to recognize situations in which defensive magic can legally be used. 3. Placing the use of defensive magic in a context for practical use. -- J.k. Rowling
Not my daughter, you bitch! -- J.k. Rowling
In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. -- J.k. Rowling
And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood. -- J.k. Rowling
Fats and Andrew were perhaps equally aware that the admiration in their relationship flowed mostly from Andrew to Fats; but Fats alone suspected that he needed Andrew more than Andrew needed him. -- J.k. Rowling
Quidditch Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Tales of Beedle the Bard -- J.k. Rowling
You'll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you. Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron, it's all okay, the Muggles say I can come. See you five o'clock tomorrow. Can't wait. -- J.k. Rowling
Filch and Madam Pince were secretly in love with each other. -- J.k. Rowling
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. -- J.k. Rowling
What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron's, however, wasn't the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him. -- J.k. Rowling
But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here ... and you're in my power ... I'm the one with the wand ... you're at my mercy ... -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."
"What d'you mean?" said Harry.
"You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you? -- J.k. Rowling
And when the creature spoke, it used Harry's mouth, so that in his agony he felt his jaw move ...
"Kill me now Dumbledore ... "
Blinded and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry felt the creature use him again ...
"If death is nothing, Dumbledore, kill the boy ... -- J.k. Rowling
ther are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other -- J.k. Rowling
My turn . . ." Ron peered into Harry's teacup, his forehead wrinkled with effort. "There's a blob a bit like a bowler hat," he said. "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry of Magic. . . ." He -- J.k. Rowling
If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. -- J.k. Rowling
Poor kid has saved the world. That blanket was masterful. I mean, he also almost destroyed the world, but probably best not to focus on that bit. -- J.k. Rowling
Power was my weakness and my temptation. -- J.k. Rowling
What do we want to be prefects for?" said George, looking revolted at the very idea. "It'd take all the fun out of life. -- J.k. Rowling
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. -- J.k. Rowling
I uprooted my daughter and left my job and moved house for you, and you treat me like a hooker you don't have to pay. -- J.k. Rowling
Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness. -- J.k. Rowling
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. -- J.k. Rowling
I will not calm down! -- J.k. Rowling
The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal. -- J.k. Rowling
The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal. There -- J.k. Rowling
Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you're searching, ponder this: We've taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour - the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back. -- J.k. Rowling
In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. -- J.k. Rowling
There was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening ... -- J.k. Rowling
When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. -- J.k. Rowling
If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius is Padfoot. Peter is Wormtail. James was Prongs. -- J.k. Rowling
Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious -- J.k. Rowling
The habit of secrecy was very strong in her these days. -- J.k. Rowling
Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you. -- J.k. Rowling
Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don't know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be 'Mad-Eye.' Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night. -- J.k. Rowling
Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again ... and again ... and again ... -- J.k. Rowling
I don't think about who the audience is for my books. -- J.k. Rowling
I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework. -- J.k. Rowling
I love you, Hermione," said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily.
Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let Lavender hear you saying that."
"I won't," said Ron into his hands. "Or maybe I will ... then she'll ditch me ... -- J.k. Rowling
Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure. -- J.k. Rowling
No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom ... I wish I could ... -- J.k. Rowling
Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving. -- J.k. Rowling
Ah, well, people can be a bit stupid abou' their pets, said Hagrid wisely. Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid's pillow. -- J.k. Rowling
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die ... -- J.k. Rowling
Simon had the child's belief that the rest of the world exists as staging for their personal drama; destiny hung over him, casting clues and signs in his path, and he could not help feeling that ha had been vouchsafed a sign, a celestial wink. -- J.k. Rowling
I would always want printed books. -- J.k. Rowling
Double Charms was succeeded by double Transfiguration. Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall both spent the first fifteen minutes of their lessons lecturing the class on the importance of O.W.L.s. -- J.k. Rowling
For Jessica, who loves stories, for Anne, who loved them too, and for Di, who heard this one first. -- J.k. Rowling
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, 'Wow, we're identical!'
'I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking,' said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle. -- J.k. Rowling
Wow, we're identical! -- J.k. Rowling
I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. -- J.k. Rowling
What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does. -- J.k. Rowling
They moved from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking in the dresser (Ron left the room hurriedly to make a cup of tea and did not return for an hour and a half) -- J.k. Rowling
You'll stay with me?'
Until the very end,' said James. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry ... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents ... -- J.k. Rowling
Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die! -- J.k. Rowling
Since then, I have served -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world. -- J.k. Rowling
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 in horror.
"Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words," Dumbledore went on, smiling. -- J.k. Rowling
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. -- J.k. Rowling
RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you're worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you're getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate. -- J.k. Rowling
It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will. -- J.k. Rowling
It's them as should be sorry! I knew yeh weren't gettin' yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know abou' Hogwarts, fer cryin' out loud! Did yeh never wonder where yer parents learned it all?" "All what?" asked Harry. "ALL WHAT?" Hagrid thundered. "Now wait jus' one second! -- J.k. Rowling
Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand again. -- J.k. Rowling
I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you. -- J.k. Rowling
If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love 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. -- J.k. Rowling
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. -- J.k. Rowling
Constant vigilance! -- J.k. Rowling
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. -- J.k. Rowling
And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher ... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we? -- J.k. Rowling
Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree. -- J.k. Rowling
Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ. - Albus Dumbledore -- J.k. Rowling
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. -- J.k. Rowling
He created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! -- J.k. Rowling
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. -- J.k. Rowling
One can never have enough socks -- J.k. Rowling
Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places. -- J.k. Rowling
Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you" - said Dumbledore -- J.k. Rowling
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe. -- J.k. Rowling
Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban" - -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth. -- J.k. Rowling
I see you are - "
"Dumbledore's man through and through," said Harry. "That's right. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger. -- J.k. Rowling
Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you, said Dumbledore quietly. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter. But Dumbledore won't always be there to protect you." Harry looked mockingly all around the shop. "Wow . . . look at that . . . he's not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband! -- J.k. Rowling
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
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are. -- J.k. Rowling
Third - to Mr. Harry Potter,' said Dumbledore. The room went deadly quiet. ' ... for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor house sixty points. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb. -- J.k. Rowling
Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved. -- J.k. Rowling
Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here. -- J.k. Rowling
"But you believe us."
"Yes, I do," said Dumbledore quietly. "But I have no power to make other men see the truth..." -- J.k. Rowling
Dear Professor Dumbledore, Sorry to bother you, but my scar hurt this morning. Yours sincerely, Harry Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
There is life beyond death ... never fear what can be escaped. -- J.k. Rowling
We don't need magic to change the world. -- J.k. Rowling
Blonde Queenie, the most beautiful girl ever to don witches' robes, is standing in a silk slip, supervising the mending of a dress on a dressmaker's dummy. Jacob is thunderstruck. -- J.k. Rowling
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that. -- J.k. Rowling
CHAPTER NINE GRIM -- J.k. Rowling
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. -- J.k. Rowling
Sounded like a load of waffle to me."
"There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle. -- J.k. Rowling
It is our choices that define who we are, not our abilities. -- J.k. Rowling
I have seen your heart, and it is mine. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Never tickle a sleeping dragon. -- J.k. Rowling
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
[never tickle a sleeping dragon] -- J.k. Rowling
I'll be fine, I'll be with Dumbledore,' said Harry. p.552 -- J.k. Rowling
Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry," said Fred earnestly. "Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever. -- J.k. Rowling
She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ... -- J.k. Rowling
Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck? -- J.k. Rowling
It does not due to dwell on drems and forget to live. -- J.k. Rowling
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt. -- J.k. Rowling
Never thought I'd live ter see the Triwizard Tournament played again! -- J.k. Rowling
They walked up the stone steps into the Entrance Hall, where the delicious smells of dinner wafted towards them from the Great Hall.
"Poor old Snuffles," said Ron, breathing deeply. "He must really like you, Harry... imagine having to live off rats. -- J.k. Rowling
And with that, the two wizards stepped one after the other into the bright green fire and vanished. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor. -- J.k. Rowling
The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. -- J.k. Rowling
Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. With the right spell or potion, they can fabricate love, travel through time, change physical form and even extinguish life. -- J.k. Rowling
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision. -- J.k. Rowling
There's a way of doing it!" Hermione said crossly. "There just has to be!" She seemed to be taking the library's lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before. -- J.k. Rowling
You haven't seen Ron or Hermione, have you?" said Harry. "No, I haven't," said Percy, his smile fading. "I hope Ron's not in another girls' toilet. -- J.k. Rowling
It's no wonder I can't get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they're tight. -- J.k. Rowling
In fact, when all three of them were together Harry felt like the only non-mourner at a poorly attended funeral -- J.k. Rowling
Parminder's rage crashed over her like a tidal wave, dragging Sukhvinder with it, so that she was unable to find her feet or right herself. -- J.k. Rowling
The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me. -- J.k. Rowling
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity. -- J.k. Rowling
Half a dozen badges slid out of the metal chute where returned coins usually appeared. Hermione scooped them up and handed them mutely to Harry over Ginny's head; he glanced at the topmost one. HARRY POTTER RESCUE MISSION -- J.k. Rowling
What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?"
"Oh no, Ron," came Fred's voice, very sarcastically. "No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Poor Crookshanks, that witch said he'd been in there for ages; no one wanted him." "I wonder why," said Ron sarcastically as they set off toward the Leaky Cauldron. -- J.k. Rowling
She's alive, but only just. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses.
'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything. -- J.k. Rowling
I thought you weren't speaking to us?" said Harry. "Yes, don't stop now," said Ron, "it's doing us so much good. -- J.k. Rowling
He wrenched the hangings shut around his four-poster, leaving Harry standing there by the door, staring at the dark red velvet curtains, now hiding one of the few people he had been sure would believe him. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise. -- J.k. Rowling
He rolled onto his back and tried to remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one. There had been a flying motorcycle in it. He had a funny feeling he'd had the same dream before. -- J.k. Rowling
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing! -- J.k. Rowling
Urgh - essence of Millicent Bulstrode. -- J.k. Rowling
They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
"Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
"Make Harry get it."
"Get the mail, Harry."
"Make Dudley get it."
"Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley. -- J.k. Rowling
I know what you are known as ... but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings. -- J.k. Rowling
He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Sellotape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. -- J.k. Rowling
The Boy Who Lived. How many people have to die for the Boy Who Lived? -- J.k. Rowling
You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy ... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were- -- J.k. Rowling
Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious, he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing ... -- J.k. Rowling
I will settle, in the short term," said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, "for a lack of open hostility. You will shake hands. You are on the same side now. Time is short, and unless the few of us who know the truth stand united, there is no hope for any of us. -- J.k. Rowling
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me, said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. -- J.k. Rowling
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! -- J.k. Rowling
Harry! 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 who rises against them and strikes back! Voldemort -- J.k. Rowling
The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that. -- J.k. Rowling
When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul? -- J.k. Rowling
Yes,' said Harry quickly. 'Listen, how much would it be to get to London?' 'Eleven Sickles,' said Stan, 'but for firteen you get 'ot chocolate, and for fifteen you get an 'ot-water bottle an' a toofbrush in the colour of your choice.' Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, I'm going to kill Mundungus Fletcher! -- J.k. Rowling
The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like. -- J.k. Rowling
That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did. -- J.k. Rowling
Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! -- J.k. Rowling
Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide - except perhaps Hogwarts. -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy - he didn't feel much like singing. -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, Harry Potter!" said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. "And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!"
"There won't be any need for that," said Harry hastily. -- J.k. Rowling
They chose the one nearest a gold-coloured cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at The Burrow. -- J.k. Rowling
Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
"You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long."
"You do it, then, if you're so clever," Ron snarled. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, why tell the public the truth? said Harry, clenching his knife so tightly that the faint scars on the back of his right hand stood out, white against his skin: I must not tell lies. -- J.k. Rowling
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. -- J.k. Rowling
The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon - hope, happiness, the desire to survive - but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can't hurt it. -- J.k. Rowling
(Ron attempted to do his up back-to-front for several minutes before Alicia took pity on him and went to help), then sat down to listen to the pre-match -- J.k. Rowling
Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with Ron too much to speak his mind right now - but he somehow thought that Hermione had gotten the point much better than Ron had. -- J.k. Rowling
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. -- J.k. Rowling
I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. -- J.k. Rowling
She watched the stream of hot black liquid fall, and felt suddenly, painfully alive to what she had risked in overthrowing her life for the man walking away into the night with another woman. -- J.k. Rowling
But, dear, if he got lost, how would we ever explain to his aunt and uncle?" "They wouldn't mind," Harry reassured her. "Dudley would think it was a brilliant joke if I got lost up a chimney, don't worry about that - -- J.k. Rowling
It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - -- J.k. Rowling
Just picture coming home and finding the Dark Mark hovering over your house, and knowing what you're about to find inside. . . ." Mr. Weasley winced. "Everyone's worst fear . . . the very worst . . . -- J.k. Rowling
I need to talk to you in private," Harry muttered to Ron and Hermione as the train picked up speed. "Go away, Ginny," said Ron. "Oh, that's nice," said Ginny huffily, and she stalked off. -- J.k. Rowling
There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. -- J.k. Rowling
There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood. -- J.k. Rowling
It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs. -- J.k. Rowling
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. -- J.k. Rowling
knew he shouldn't have risen to Dudley's bait, but Dudley had said the very thing Harry had been thinking himself . . . maybe -- J.k. Rowling
It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept. -- J.k. Rowling
I just wish I'd asked you sooner. We could've had ages ... months ... years maybe ... -- J.k. Rowling
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. -- J.k. Rowling
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter mustn't be angry ... Dobby hoped ... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him ... Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir ... -- J.k. Rowling
I don't want to stay here overnight,' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. 'I want to find McLaggen and kill him. -- J.k. Rowling
the wizard prison, -- J.k. Rowling
Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! -- J.k. Rowling
I don't have a favorite book, I have hundreds -- J.k. Rowling
It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice? -- J.k. Rowling
He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was his destiny. -- J.k. Rowling
Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one? -- J.k. Rowling
Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts. -- J.k. Rowling
Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry. Hello, Harry Potter. I'm Rubeus Hagrid. And I'm gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not. 'Cos yeh've had it tough, not that yeh know it yet. An' yer gonna need friends. Now yeh best come with me, don't yeh think? -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, most think he's barking, the potty wee lad, but some are more kindly and think he's just sad, but Peevesy knows better and says that he's mad. -- J.k. Rowling
You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair. -- J.k. Rowling
In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn't turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us. -- J.k. Rowling
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. -- J.k. Rowling
When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return. -- J.k. Rowling
The sight of a tree at night full of glowing Clabbert lifestyles, while decorative, attracted too many Muggles wishing to ask why their neighbours still had their Christmas lights up in June. -- J.k. Rowling
Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending what's left of Finch-Fletchley up to the hospital wing in a matchbox. -- J.k. Rowling
THE BOY WHO LIVED M -- J.k. Rowling
I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point ... ?
Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked.
Expecto Patronum!
The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall. -- J.k. Rowling
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart. -- J.k. Rowling
Death is coming for me as surely as the Chudley Cannons will finish bottom of this year's league. -- J.k. Rowling
Come . . . come to me. . . . Let me rip you. . . . Let me tear you. . . . Let me kill you. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects us fools who love to act. -- J.k. Rowling
You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? -- J.k. Rowling
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats. -- J.k. Rowling
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? -- J.k. Rowling
Harry could still hear the distant bangs of escaped firecrackers when he and Ron went up to bed an hour later, and as he got undressed a sparkler floated past the tower, still resolutely spelling out the word -- J.k. Rowling
It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat? -- J.k. Rowling
It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men. -- J.k. Rowling
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength -- J.k. Rowling
Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately.
"Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
My mother didn't have a heart, Kreacher," Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure spite" -Sirius Black to Kreacher, the Order of the Phoenix -- J.k. Rowling
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione's eyes were swimming with tears again. Ron got back off the bed, put his arm around her once more, and frowned at Harry as though reproaching him for lack of tact. Harry could not think of anything to say, not least because it was highly unusual for Ron to be teaching anyone else tact. -- J.k. Rowling
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement. -- J.k. Rowling
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! -- J.k. Rowling
We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore -- J.k. Rowling
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. -- J.k. Rowling
This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. -- J.k. Rowling
Er - I don' want ter be rude," said Hagrid, staring at her, "but who the ruddy hell are you? -- J.k. Rowling
I did my waiting! Twelve years of it, in Azkaban! -- J.k. Rowling
He turned back to Harry. You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong -- J.k. Rowling
It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin. . . ." "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." Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. -- J.k. Rowling
They're fairly cuddly, yes," conceded Fred. "But you're moving through boyfriends a bit fast, aren't you? -- J.k. Rowling
Quidditch match, taking -- J.k. Rowling
For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes
And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within -- J.k. Rowling
Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.
George!
Only joking, Mum. -- J.k. Rowling
Hogwarts is my home -- J.k. Rowling
Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.
'Mum! I can't give a professor love!'
'But you know Neville-'
James rolled his eyes.
'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love ... -- J.k. Rowling
Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it," Mr. Weasley said in a constricted voice. "Well, all I can say is that it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a son called Harry. Come to think of it, he wasn't even sure his nephew was called Harry. He'd never even seen the boy. It might have been Harvey. Or Harold. -- J.k. Rowling
Another song for Harry Potter is my time is know by John Cena. It relates to Harry because it is his time to be the best wizard at Hogwarts his school. -- J.k. Rowling
Am I meant to know, but not to seek? Did you know how hard I'd find that? -- J.k. Rowling
He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transformation. -- J.k. Rowling
It'll be a lot less hassle if you can just knock Malfoy off his broom tomorrow. -- J.k. Rowling
Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies. -- J.k. Rowling
It is 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. -- J.k. Rowling
I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo. -- J.k. Rowling
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
DUMBLEDORE: You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come. HARRY: So I'm supposed to stand and watch? DUMBLEDORE: No. You're supposed to teach him how to meet life. -- J.k. Rowling
they just had big bones rather than stand up an' say - 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.' An' he was right. I've bin an idiot. I'm not botherin' with -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Hey, look - Harry's got a Weasley sweater, too!"
Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G.
"Harry's is better than ours, though," said Fred, holding up Harry's sweater. "She obviously makes more of an effort if you're not family. -- J.k. Rowling
his face split into a gormless grin, 'you turned up right in front of us and said you was looking for a die-dum! What's a die-dum? -- J.k. Rowling
You made him stay shut up in that house and he hated it, that's why he wanted to get out last night -"
"I was trying to keep Sirius alive," said Dumbledore quietly.
"People don't like being locked up!" Harry said furiously, rounding on him. "You did it to me all last summer - -- J.k. Rowling
It looks like a Grim if you do this," Seamus Finnigan said, with his eyes almost shut, "but it looks more like a donkey from here," he said, leaning to the left. -- J.k. Rowling
Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose. -- J.k. Rowling
You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it. -- J.k. Rowling
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. -- J.k. Rowling
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. -- J.k. Rowling
Ministry of magic?' bellowed Uncle Vernon. 'People like you in government? Oh this explains everything, everything, no wonder the country's going to the dogs ... -- J.k. Rowling
Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone, said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus - ha ha ha - -- J.k. Rowling
Curiosity is not a sin ... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity ... yes, indeed. -- J.k. Rowling
I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid. -- J.k. Rowling
Curiosity and even though Dumbledore had walked to the door -- J.k. Rowling
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them. -- J.k. Rowling
looked like a toothless walnut. -- J.k. Rowling
Not only did Peeves break easily through the giant bell jar, showering an entire corridor with broken glass, he also escaped the trap armed with several cutlasses, crossbows, a blunderbuss and a miniature cannon. -- J.k. Rowling
Do not pity the dead, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know the title of book 4? And I keep saying, No! There is no point kidnapping her, taking her around back of the bike shed, and torturing her for information. -- J.k. Rowling
The hippogriff took off into the air ... He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them ... then a cloud drifted across the moon ... They were gone. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Don't talk to me."
"Why not?"
"Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret ... -- J.k. Rowling
If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him. -- J.k. Rowling
Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart. -- J.k. Rowling
Kill the spare.
-Voldemort -- J.k. Rowling
I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books. -- J.k. Rowling
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!"
Harry: "It's time you earned it. -- J.k. Rowling
His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill a lifetime's beats before the end. -- J.k. Rowling
And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same. -- J.k. Rowling
Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism? -- J.k. Rowling
Ancient and shriveled, many people said he hadn't noticed he was dead. He had simply got up to teach one day and left his body behind him in an armchair in front of the staffroom fire; his routine had not varied in the slightest since. Today -- J.k. Rowling
Is it true you shouted at Professor Umbridge?'
'Yes,' said Harry.
'You called her a liar?'
'Yes.'
'You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?'
'Yes.'
Professor McGonagall sat down behind her desk, watching Harry closely. Then she said, 'Have a biscuit, Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"
"What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you. -- J.k. Rowling
Revolving slowly as if suspended by an invisible rope, and reflected in the mirror and in the bare, polished surface of the table below. None of the people seated underneath this singular sight was looking at it except for a pale young man sitting almost directly -- J.k. Rowling
...I imagined that I was about to see Ariana, and my mother, and my father, and to tell them how very, very sorry I was..." "Why? It was natural! You wanted to see them again. What's wrong with that? -- J.k. Rowling
Listen, Hermione, I can tell it's not a girl. I can just tell."
"The truth is that you don't think a girl would have been clever enough," said Hermione angrily.
"How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?" said Harry, stung by this. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't go downstairs for a bit." "Why not?" said Ron. "Mum's crying again," said Fred heavily. "Percy sent back his Christmas jumper." "Without a note," added George. "Hasn't asked how -- J.k. Rowling
Half the f-f-family's in the Order, it'll b-b-be a miracle if we all come through this. . . . and -- J.k. Rowling
Harry had never believed he would meet a boy he hated more than Dudley, but that was before he met Draco Malfoy. -- J.k. Rowling
He died as he lived: working always for the greater good and, to his last hour, as willing to stretch out a hand to a small boy with dragon pox as he was on the day that I met him. -- J.k. Rowling
And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate - -- J.k. Rowling
We'll see each other again," he said. "You are - truly your father's son, Harry. . . ." He -- J.k. Rowling
The only remedy is to take the liver of a toad, bind it tight about your throat, stand naked by the full moon in a barrel of eels' eyes -- J.k. Rowling
Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand. -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey] -- J.k. Rowling
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore reckons You-Know-Who's getting stronger again as well? Ron whispered. -- J.k. Rowling
But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance: -- J.k. Rowling
You felt that she wanted things to go right for you, and not only for the forms. -- J.k. Rowling
A poor way to repay them - gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks. -- J.k. Rowling
All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren't enough hats! -- J.k. Rowling
Most of them were devoid of workaday morals; they lied, misbehaved and cheated routinely, and yet their fury when wrongly accused was limitless and genuine. -- J.k. Rowling
If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight. -- J.k. Rowling
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
Everything that fails brings you closer to what works. -- J.k. Rowling
So you did see your father last night, Harry. . . . You found him inside yourself. -- J.k. Rowling
Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's eyes. -- J.k. Rowling
The inspiration for Moaning Myrtle was the frequent presence of a crying girl in communal bathrooms, especially at the parties and discos of my youth. This does not seem to happen in male bathrooms, so I enjoyed placing Harry and Ron in such uncomfortable and unfamiliar territory. -- J.k. Rowling
I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?"
"Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Absolutely Disgusted! Your Father's Facing An Inquiry At Work And It's Entirely Your Fault! If You Put Another Toe Out Of Line, We'll Bring You Straight Back Home! -- J.k. Rowling
The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands directed at each other's chests; then, recognizing each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and started walking briskly in the same direction. -- J.k. Rowling
NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" Mrs. Weasley threw off her cloak as she ran, freeing her arms. -- J.k. Rowling
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
-Sirious Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J.k. Rowling
And he knew, without knowing how he knew it, that the phoenix had gone, had left Hogwarts for good, just as Dumbledore had left the school, had left the world ... had left Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
" ... I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."
"Well reasoned. -- J.k. Rowling
Was it - was she making a real prediction?'
Dumbledore looked mildly impressed.
'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise ... -- J.k. Rowling
You're saying it wrong! It's LEVIOSA not LEVIOSAAA -- J.k. Rowling
How're you feeling?' Ginny asked Ron, who was now staring into the dregs of milk at the bottom of him empty cereal bowl as of seriously considering attempting to drown himself in them. -- J.k. Rowling
Their cherub threw another handful of confetti over them; some of it landed in the last cold dregs of coffee Harry had been about to drink. -- J.k. Rowling
She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable? -- J.k. Rowling
At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to - er - 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione was just the same as his answer to Ron. "I'm not bothering him with this. Like you just said, it's not a big deal. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeh don' have ter be ashamed of what yeh are. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?"
Ron: "Throw it away and punch him on the nose. -- J.k. Rowling
Get back, you scurvy braggart! Back, you rogue! -- J.k. Rowling
RONALD WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU STEAL THAT CAR! -- J.k. Rowling
I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice. -- J.k. Rowling
Dog diggity Cedric Diggory - you are a doggy dynamo. -- J.k. Rowling
Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm going to bed before any of you think of another brilliant way to get us all killed, or worse, EXPELLED. -- J.k. Rowling
All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And -- J.k. Rowling
Hello, Harry," he said grimly, "I see you've met my mother. -- J.k. Rowling
What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. -- J.k. Rowling
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be. -- J.k. Rowling
Get back!" shouted Ron, and he, Harry, and Hermione flattened themselves against a door as a herd of galloping desks thundered past, shepherded by a sprinting Professor McGonagall ... As she turned the corner, they heard her scream, "CHARGE! -- J.k. Rowling
Not if I can help it," said Hermione grimly. "Flitwick told me in secret that I got a hundred and twelve percent on his exam. They're not throwing me out after that. -- J.k. Rowling
Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance. -- J.k. Rowling
Under Kingsley Shacklebolt, Azkaban was purged of Dementors. While it remains in use as a prison, the guards are now Aurors, who are regularly rotated from the mainland. There has been no breakout since this new system was introduced. -- J.k. Rowling
DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING. -- J.k. Rowling
Listen," said Harry firmly. "If you don't take it, 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. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not going anywhere!" said Harry fiercely. "One of my best friends is Muggle-born; she'll be first in line if the Chamber really has been opened ... -- J.k. Rowling
Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back. -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort put a bit of himself in me? Harry said, thunderstruck. -- J.k. Rowling
I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing? -- J.k. Rowling
Too much of a good thing, you know . . . highly toxic in large quantities. -- J.k. Rowling
To the well organized mind, death is just the beginning of the next adventure. -- J.k. Rowling
Seconds later, or so it seemed to -- J.k. Rowling
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. -- J.k. Rowling
He'll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s'long as they've got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren' ... well ... all tha' respectable. -- J.k. Rowling
Had a bad one too, have you?' asked the Prime Minister stiffly, hoping to convey by this that he had quite enough on his plate already without any extra helpings from Fudge. 'Yes, of course,' said Fudge, -- J.k. Rowling
You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done! -- J.k. Rowling
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. -- J.k. Rowling
If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you know, you need only ask. -- J.k. Rowling
I know how to use a fellytone now. -- J.k. Rowling
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh. -- J.k. Rowling
Andrew indulged in a little fantasy in which his father dropped dead, gunned down by an invisible sniper. Andrew visualised himself patting his sobbing mother on the back while he telephoned the undertaker. He had a cigarette in his mouth as he ordered the cheapest coffin. -- J.k. Rowling
it is an honor to have you here, in -- J.k. Rowling
I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine. -- J.k. Rowling
Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. -- J.k. Rowling
I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves. -- J.k. Rowling
The magic continues, destiny awaits. -- J.k. Rowling
They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small!" said Hagrid.
"Small?" said Hermione. "Small?"
"Hermione, I couldn't leave him," said Hagrid, tears now trickling down his bruised face into his beard. "See
he's my brother! -- J.k. Rowling
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was. -- J.k. Rowling
Give the incantation, and b) describe the wand movement required to make objects fly. . . -- J.k. Rowling
Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand ... -- J.k. Rowling
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them. -- J.k. Rowling
You alone know whether it will harm your soul to help an old man avoid pain and humiliation, said Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. -- J.k. Rowling
They also carried knobbly sticks, used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life. -- J.k. Rowling
What are you doing Muggle Studies for?" said Ron, rolling his eyes at Harry. "You're Muggle-born! Your mum and dad are Muggles! You already know all about Muggles! -- J.k. Rowling
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. -- J.k. Rowling
But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore." "Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places," suggested Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter -- J.k. Rowling
Karkus seemed ter be quite int'rested in what -- J.k. Rowling
There had been a horrible incident the day before, when Hannah Abbott had been taken out of Herbology to be told her mother had been found dead. They -- J.k. Rowling
What's interesting about the wizarding world is when you take physical strength out of the equation, a woman can do magic just as powerfully as a man can do magic. A woman can fight just the same as a man. -- J.k. Rowling
Where are they going to hide the boy next? -- J.k. Rowling
Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts - I did - still do, 'smatter of fact. -- J.k. Rowling
It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream.
This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment ... -- J.k. Rowling
Harry and Ron slouched into the Great Hall in states of deepest gloom, Hermione behind them, wearing a well-you-did-break-school-rules sort of expression. -- J.k. Rowling
Umbridge held out a small hand: She -- J.k. Rowling
And of course a bit of whoever we want to change into." "Excuse me?" said Ron sharply. "What d'you mean, a bit of whoever we're changing into? I'm drinking nothing with Crabbe's toenails in it - -- J.k. Rowling
Harry couldn't believe it. Was this more of Dumbledore's insane determination to see good in everyone? -- J.k. Rowling
They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything. -- J.k. Rowling
And if you want people to help you, Ron," added George, throwing the paper airplane at him, "I wouldn't chuck knives at them. -- J.k. Rowling
The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end. -- J.k. Rowling
Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning. SCORPIUS: -- J.k. Rowling
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless - discuss. -- J.k. Rowling
Where's the fun without a bit of risk? -- J.k. Rowling
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. -- J.k. Rowling
That thing has a name? -- J.k. Rowling
I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness. -- J.k. Rowling
I mean, normally, being in lockdown, being in constant detention, it'd break me, but now - what's the worst they can do? Bring back Moldy Voldy and have him torture me? Nope. -- J.k. Rowling
Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!"
"And you didn't see that coming?" said Harry, unable to help himself.
"No, I did not, as I say, it was pitch - " Professor Trelawny stopped and glared at him suspiciously. -- J.k. Rowling
So young," he said finally, "to be fighting so many. -- J.k. Rowling
Didn't you see what it was standing on?" "The floor?" Harry suggested. "I wasn't looking at its feet, I was too busy with its heads. -- J.k. Rowling
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -- J.k. Rowling
Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! "Thank you! -- J.k. Rowling
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! -- J.k. Rowling
S. P. T. to A. P. W. B. D. Dark -- J.k. Rowling
You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you. -- J.k. Rowling
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being
forgive me
rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. -- J.k. Rowling
Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen ... -- J.k. Rowling
Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Hm," said the witch, picking up Scabbers. "How old is this rat?" "Dunno," said -- J.k. Rowling
Get off me," Harry spat, throwing Pettigrew's hands off him in disgust. "I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it because - I don't reckon my dad would've wanted them to become killers - just for you. -- J.k. Rowling
Then they saw a silvery-white orb hanging in the air in front of Lupin, -- J.k. Rowling
Loony, Loopy Lupin. -- J.k. Rowling
What you fear most of all is-fear. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, guess what? said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there. -- J.k. Rowling
I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son] ... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing
-James Sirius Potter -- J.k. Rowling
Professor Lupin?" he said. "If you knew my dad, you must've known Sirius Black as well." Lupin turned very quickly. "What gives you that idea?" he said sharply. -- J.k. Rowling
Eat, you'll feel better." - Remus Lupin -- J.k. Rowling
Well, when it works correctly, it conjures up a Patronus," said Lupin, "which is a kind of anti-dementor - a guardian that acts as a shield between you and the dementor. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see. -- J.k. Rowling
What you fear most of all is - fear" - Remus Lupin -- J.k. Rowling
And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks."
"-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin.
"So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks. -- J.k. Rowling
Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only,' finished Lupin. -- J.k. Rowling
They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin -- J.k. Rowling
If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it! -- J.k. Rowling
Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page. -- J.k. Rowling
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. -- J.k. Rowling
Brilliant. I'll go and get one of our other ancient goblin-made swords and you can gift wrap it. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron (HP Sorcerer's Stone): Have you gone mad? Are you a witch or not? -- J.k. Rowling
The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold. -- J.k. Rowling
So much the better for me, so much the worse for him. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life. -- J.k. Rowling
His feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins. -- J.k. Rowling
Nar," a gravely voice answered. "We was told exactly where the beacons were placed, wasn't we? This section's clean. Sentry's all we have to worry about. If you don' see him, then move in. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier. -- J.k. Rowling
Of course not," said Hermione. "Everything we need is here on this paper. -- J.k. Rowling
The stories we love best live in us forever. -- J.k. Rowling
Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless - unless they've got to. -- J.k. Rowling
Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away. -- J.k. Rowling
And there is a giant whoosh of light. A smash of noise. And time stops. And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first . . . And then it speeds up. -- J.k. Rowling
I really don't believe in magic. -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid!" Harry called, holding on to the bike for dear life. "Hagrid - Accio Hagrid! -- J.k. Rowling
THROUGH THE TRAPDOOR I -- J.k. Rowling
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.. -- J.k. Rowling
Somewhere over there," said Ron, pointing along the shelves. "Looking for another book. I think she's trying to read the whole library before Christmas." Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Now, Ron, the Sorting's much more important than food," said Nearly Headless Nick as "Madley, Laura!" became a Hufflepuff. " 'Course it is, if you're dead," snapped Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat. -- J.k. Rowling
Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us? -- J.k. Rowling
I am not worried...I am with you. -- J.k. Rowling
people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right," said -- J.k. Rowling
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. -- J.k. Rowling
Every tiny movement seemed magnified in the vastness of the forest. -- J.k. Rowling
We can't go in there at night - there's all sorts of things in there - werewolves, I heard. -- J.k. Rowling
How did you get here?" Harry asked.
"Flew," said Hagrid.
"Flew? -- J.k. Rowling
Stand together, be strong from within. -- J.k. Rowling
Students out of bed! Students in the corridors!" "They're supposed to be, you blithering idiot! -- J.k. Rowling
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 this easily - weak people, in other words ... -- J.k. Rowling
Black, he couldn't brood constantly on revenge -- J.k. Rowling
I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her! -- J.k. Rowling
Instantly, Harry felt a jerk somewhere behind his navel. His feet had left the ground. He could not unclench the hand holding the Triwizard Cup; it was pulling him onward in a howl of wind and swirling color, Cedric at his side. -- J.k. Rowling
MOANING MYRTLE: What did you call me? Do I moan? Am I moaning now? AM I? AM I? SCORPIUS: No, I didn't mean . . . MOANING MYRTLE: What's my name? SCORPIUS: Myrtle. MOANING MYRTLE: Exactly - Myrtle. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning. -- J.k. Rowling
And together they walked back through the gateway to the Muggle world. -- J.k. Rowling
Remus, always the underdog's friend, was kind to short and rather slow Peter Pettigrew, a fellow Gryffindor, whom James and Sirius might not have thought worthy of their attention without Remus's persuasion. Soon, these four became inseparable. -- J.k. Rowling
But sometimes she found that memory confusing and doubted it. -- J.k. Rowling
OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing. -- J.k. Rowling
Incidentally, that thing you are dreading - it will happen on Friday the sixteenth of October. -- J.k. Rowling
Stop moving!" Hermione ordered them. "I know what this is - it's Devil's Snare!"
"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
You are not Sirius's only correspondent," said Dumbledore. "I have also been in contact with him ever since he left Hogwarts last year. It was I who suggested the mountainside cave as the safest place for him to stay. -- J.k. Rowling
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco ... I think my country helped me. -- J.k. Rowling
Mostly they laughed because they laughed, feeding off each other until they could barely stand. -- J.k. Rowling
If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book. -- J.k. Rowling
Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. -- J.k. Rowling
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt. -- J.k. Rowling
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. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both. -- J.k. Rowling
Fellow seems quite unbalanced," said Fudge, staring after him. "I'd watch out for him if I were you, Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. -- J.k. Rowling
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human - "
"THEN - I - DON'T - WANT - TO - BE - HUMAN!" Harry roared. -- J.k. Rowling
cheese cauldron. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't mean to be rude - " he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely. -- J.k. Rowling
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry was just as interested as everyone else to see what was in this large parcel, and was amazed when the owls soared down and dropped it right in front of him, knocking his bacon to the floor. -- J.k. Rowling
I'd want him finished," said Harry quietly. "And I'd want to do it. -- J.k. Rowling
The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity. -- J.k. Rowling
Er-my-nee, Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them. -- J.k. Rowling
Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them. -- J.k. Rowling
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. -- J.k. Rowling
A miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each of the moons glimmered in place around the nine planets and the fiery sun, -- J.k. Rowling
We teachers are rather good at magic, you know. -- J.k. Rowling
You are nearly there," said James. "Very close. We are ... so proud of you. -- J.k. Rowling
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! And I shall do zat! -- J.k. Rowling
THE UNBREAKABLE VOW -- J.k. Rowling
Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her. -- J.k. Rowling
Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. -- J.k. Rowling
It was not, after all, so easy to die. -- J.k. Rowling
He yearned not to feel ... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him ... -- J.k. Rowling
Fifty?" Harry gasped.
"Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
"Professor - please - "
"You can't - "
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students. -- J.k. Rowling
Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it? -- J.k. Rowling
Many of our oldest family trees become a little diseased over time," he said as Bellatrix gazed at him, breathless and imploring. "You must prune yours, must you not, to keep it healthy? Cut away those parts that threaten the health of the rest. -- J.k. Rowling
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. -- J.k. Rowling
Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sorry as he felt for himself. -- J.k. Rowling
Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender? -- J.k. Rowling
Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones."
"You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you. -- J.k. Rowling
Yoooou!" she howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. "Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh! -- J.k. Rowling
At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in! They got in on pure talent! -- J.k. Rowling
Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue, said Sirius. -- J.k. Rowling
Will you stay with me?"
"Until the very end. -- J.k. Rowling
Percy wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby's tea cozy. -- J.k. Rowling
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion! -- J.k. Rowling
Could I - could I say good-bye to him, sir? asked Hagrid. He bent his great, shaggy head over Harry and gave him what must have been a very scratchy, whiskery kiss. Then, suddenly, Hagrid let out a howl like a wounded dog. -- J.k. Rowling
I sought a third wand, Severus. The Elder Wand, the Wand of Destiny, the Deathstick. I took it from its previous master. I took it from the grave of Albus Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who never really sought it -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, come off it," said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. "Yep - ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' at Defense Against the Dark Arts." He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. "You're actually disappointed, aren't you? -- J.k. Rowling
I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease. -- J.k. Rowling
What do you think?" he asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry," she said wearily, "it's a pile of utter rubbish. This can't be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time."
"I s'pose this is the man who brought us Crumple-Horned Snorkacks," said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Thought I might be late,' said Yaxley, his blunt features sliding in and out of sight as the branches of overhanging trees broke the moonlight. 'It was a little trickier than I expected. But I hope he will be satisfied. You sound confident that your reception will be good? -- J.k. Rowling
The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right. -- J.k. Rowling
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with J.K. Rowling (Scholastic / Stacks webcast, October 11, 2012)] -- J.k. Rowling
They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries. -- J.k. Rowling
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don't work. -- J.k. Rowling
The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. -- J.k. Rowling
It had taken all Harry's willpower to uproot himself from the spot and run, leaving the eyeless dementors to glide amongst the Muggles who might not be able to see them, but would assuredly feel the despair they cast wherever they went. -- J.k. Rowling
I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don't think that's healthy. -- J.k. Rowling
Dear Hermione, We lost. I'm allowed to bring him back to Hogwarts. Execution date to be fixed. Beaky has enjoyed London. I won't forget all the help you gave us. Hagrid -- J.k. Rowling
World Cup. "It's got to be Ireland," said Charlie thickly, through a mouthful of potato. "They flattened Peru in the semifinals. -- J.k. Rowling
Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough. -- J.k. Rowling
It was now packed inside the beaded bag, which, Harry was impressed to learn, Hermione had protected from the Snatchers by the simple expedient of stuffing it down her sock. -- J.k. Rowling
And then she was kissing him as she never had before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand at her back and one in her long, sweet-smelling hair ... -- J.k. Rowling
His gloom seeped through the house, oozing under doorways like some noxious gas, so that all of them became infected by it. -- J.k. Rowling
Mr. Dursley, however, had a perfectly normal, owl-free morning. -- J.k. Rowling
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. -- J.k. Rowling
GILDEROY LOCKHART T -- J.k. Rowling
Dolores Umbridge may have looked like an iced cupcake, but she was anything but sweet. She -- J.k. Rowling
(Dolores is the only person, other than Lord Voldemort, to leave a permanent physical scar on Harry, having forced him to cut the words 'I must not tell lies' on the back of his own hand during detention). -- J.k. Rowling
I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-"
"She's foul enough to be one ... "
"Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. -- J.k. Rowling
Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores? -- J.k. Rowling
Would you like a cough drop Dolores? -- J.k. Rowling
Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? -- J.k. Rowling
Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere! -- J.k. Rowling
If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain. -- J.k. Rowling
Fail to act - and history will remember you as the man who stepped aside and allowed Voldemort a second chance to destroy the world we have tried to rebuild! -- J.k. Rowling
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 -- J.k. Rowling
She often felt lonely and drained these days, shuttling between her husband and son, who seemed to exist entirely independently, as alien to each other as landlord and lodger. -- J.k. Rowling
there comes a point when holding on to your dreams becomes unhelpful and even unhealthy. -- J.k. Rowling
In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe. -- J.k. Rowling
I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. -- J.k. Rowling
RON: Just to say- I didn't know about much of it so can't take responsibility- and I'm pretty sure my kids had nothing to do with it- but if this lot are standing up here then so am I. -- J.k. Rowling
this is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal -- J.k. Rowling
notes were handed out to all students, warning them not to use magic over the holidays ("I always hope they'll forget to give us these," said Fred Weasley sadly) -- J.k. Rowling
Seen the Fizzing Whizbees, Harry?" said Ron, grabbing him and leading him over to their barrel. "And the Jelly Slugs? And the Acid Pops? Fred gave me one of those when I was seven - it burnt a hole right through my tongue. I remember Mum walloping him with her broomstick. -- J.k. Rowling
First sign of madness, talking to your own head. -- J.k. Rowling
A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop. -- J.k. Rowling
Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else. -- J.k. Rowling
Luna has told me all about you, young lady,' said Xenophilius, 'you are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.' 'Perhaps you ought to try on the hat, Hermione,' said Ron, nodding towards the ludicrous headdress. His voice shook with the strain of not laughing. -- J.k. Rowling
I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers... -- J.k. Rowling
Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues. -- J.k. Rowling
Failure is a stripping away of the inessential. -- J.k. Rowling
Hope springs forever. -- J.k. Rowling
Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy? -- J.k. Rowling
When Harry pulled back his sheets, he found his Invisibility Cloak folded neatly underneath them. There was a note pinned to it: Just in case. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. -- J.k. Rowling
Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.
xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes -- J.k. Rowling
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour.
"No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world! -- J.k. Rowling
No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858 - 1865): 'their puir wee braines couldnae cope wi' it. -- J.k. Rowling
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. -- J.k. Rowling
From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't you?" said Moody quietly. "It's very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter's name in that goblet knowing he'd have to compete if it came out. -- J.k. Rowling
When there's strife and when there's trouble Call on Peevsie, he'll make double!' The -- J.k. Rowling
Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it. -- J.k. Rowling
If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. -- J.k. Rowling
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive. -- J.k. Rowling
He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered. -- J.k. Rowling
We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today. -- J.k. Rowling
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. Harry lay there, lost for -- J.k. Rowling
Uncle Vernon's face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living-room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering. -- J.k. Rowling
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. -- J.k. Rowling
Three hand-painted signs had been tacked to a broken-down gate. The first read,
THE QUIBBLER. EDITOR: X. LOVEGOOD
The second,
PICK YOUR OWN MISTLETOE
The third,
KEEP OFF THE DIRIGIBLE PLUMS -- J.k. Rowling
Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame - -- J.k. Rowling
I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute? -- J.k. Rowling
You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione.
"Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Did you know - then?" asked Harry.
"Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No. -- J.k. Rowling
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. -- J.k. Rowling
It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be... -- J.k. Rowling
Kreacher said nothing," said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, "and there's its twin, unnatural little beasts they are. -- J.k. Rowling
I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first! -- J.k. Rowling
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its five four-poster beds, and Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last -- J.k. Rowling
McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, well, yeh get weirdos in every breed. I'm not sayin' there isn't the odd elf who'd take freedom, but yeh'll never persuade most of 'em ter do it - no, nothin' doin', Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum and Fizzing Whizzbees. There -- J.k. Rowling
Dobby has no master!" squealed the elf. "Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends! -- J.k. Rowling
Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts. -- J.k. Rowling
What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal. -- J.k. Rowling
You do realize, don't you, that there's probably no more dangerous place in the whole world for us to be right now than -- J.k. Rowling
At this precise moment in time, I take no pleasure in being right. -- J.k. Rowling
Hallows, not Horcruxes. -- J.k. Rowling
The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream! -- J.k. Rowling
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in their
own despair ... -- J.k. Rowling
There you go, Harry!" Ron shouted over the noise. "You weren't being thick after all - you were showing moral fiber! -- J.k. Rowling
You think the dead we have 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. -- J.k. Rowling
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? -- J.k. Rowling
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. -- J.k. Rowling
She was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms.
"I never thought to look in here!" she whispered excitedly. "I got this out of the library weeks ago for a bit of light reading."
"Light?" said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned to you. Use it well. A Very Merry Christmas to you. -- J.k. Rowling
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. -- J.k. Rowling
Lo, Fawkes,' said Harry quietly. He stroked the phoenix's beautiful scarlet and gold plumage. Fawkes blinked peacefully up at him. There was something comforting about his warm weight. -- J.k. Rowling
Many years before, she had read, and recognized as true, the words of W. B. Yeats: 'A Pity beyond all telling is hit at the heart of love'. She had smiled over the poem, and stroked the page, because she had known both that she loved Colin, and that compassion formed a huge part of her love. -- J.k. Rowling
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. -- J.k. Rowling
What can you see in mine?" "A load of soggy brown stuff," said Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now, -- J.k. Rowling
GRINDELWALD
Will we die, just a little? -- J.k. Rowling
The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose. -- J.k. Rowling
There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated. -- J.k. Rowling
That is - I don't know - is a man alive if he can't be killed? -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile. -- J.k. Rowling
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading of the map. "We owe them so much." "Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers," said Fred solemnly. -- J.k. Rowling
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. -- J.k. Rowling
HARRY AND GINNY POTTER'S HOUSE, ALBUS'S ROOM ALBUS -- J.k. Rowling
Who do you know who's lost a buttock? -- J.k. Rowling
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. -- J.k. Rowling
THE MAN WITH TWO FACES I -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, it was Malfoy, I was thinking about him and I lost track of things! -- J.k. Rowling
It's best to know what the enemy is saying -- J.k. Rowling
Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.
'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks. -- J.k. Rowling
vigorously than she had intended at a pile of potatoes -- J.k. Rowling
Like many people who feel themselves to be insignificant, even laughable, Quirrell had a latent desire to make the world sit up and notice him. Quirrell -- J.k. Rowling
If your determination to shut your eyes will carry you as far as this, Cornelius," said -- J.k. Rowling
heavy locket that none of them could open, -- J.k. Rowling
'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.' -- J.k. Rowling
I'm taking Fleur on a thestral," said Bill. "She's not that fond of brooms."
Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a sloppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again. -- J.k. Rowling
Rattled. He hurried to his car and set off for home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination. As he pulled into the driveway of number four, the first thing he saw - and it didn't improve his mood - was the tabby -- J.k. Rowling
He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination. -- J.k. Rowling
He's back!" said George. "Dad's home!" They hurried through the garden and back into the house. -- J.k. Rowling
She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience. -- J.k. Rowling
He, Ron, and Hermione passed through the gateway together. "There he is, Mom, there he is, look!"
It was Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister, but she wasn't pointing at Ron.
"Harry Potter!" she squealed. "Look, Mom! I can see - -- J.k. Rowling
There, fighting their way toward Harry, were Ron and Hermione. Words failed them. They simply beamed as Harry was borne toward the stands, where Dumbledore stood waiting with the enormous Quidditch Cup. -- J.k. Rowling
I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - "
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year ... -- J.k. Rowling
At this rate, we'll be the only ones left," Ron told Harry and Hermione. "Us, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. What a jolly holiday it's going to be. -- J.k. Rowling
What's that?" said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding.
"Bouillabaisse," said Hermione.
"Bless you," said Ron.
"It's French," said Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to break down the door. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section. -- J.k. Rowling
You won't have to do all the work
alone this time, Hermione. I'll help."
"Oh, Ron!"
Hermione flung her arms around Ron's neck and broke down completely. -- J.k. Rowling
As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older
Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof. -- J.k. Rowling
Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?"
"Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me - "
"I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times - "
"Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand - -- J.k. Rowling
Ron and Hermione were a very good audience; they gasped in all the right places. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione, will you please - "
"Don't you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!" she screeched. "Don't you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!"
She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps. -- J.k. Rowling
Opportunities to make plans together became virtually nonexistent, and it was in desperation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took to volunteering to feed the chickens just to escape the overcrowded house. -- J.k. Rowling
About Siri . . . Snuffles?" said Harry. "No . . . not exactly . . ." said Hermione slowly. "More . . . wondering . . . I suppose we're doing the right thing . . . I think . . . aren't we?" Harry and Ron looked at each other. -- J.k. Rowling
And you could ask your parents if they know who Flamel is," said Ron. "It'd be safe to ask them." "Very safe, as they're both dentists," said Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, Ron! Hermione flung her arms around Ron's neck and broke down completely. Ron, looking quite terrified, patted her very awkwardly on the top of the head. -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid howled still more loudly. Harry and Hermione looked at Ron to help them.
'Er-shall I make a cup of tea?' said Ron.
Harry stared at him.
'It's what my mum does whenever someone's upset,' Ron muttered, shrugging. -- J.k. Rowling
He's been poisoned you daft dimbo! As for a matter of fact, I've always found him interesting."
-hermione granger(Harry potter and the half blood prince) -- J.k. Rowling
No," said Hermione shortly. "Have either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?"
"Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading," said Ron, but very quietly. -- J.k. Rowling
Who's Kreacher?"
"The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him."
"He is not a nutter," said Hermione.
"His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione? -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron and Hermione weren't speaking to each other. -- J.k. Rowling
ALBUS: But I don't need a Ron and Hermione. I've - I've got a friend, Scorpius, and I know you don't like him but he's all I need. HARRY: -- J.k. Rowling
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh well ... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet. -- J.k. Rowling
Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. -- J.k. Rowling
There was a girl who came up to me on the street the other day, she bloomed out of the pavement ... and she must have been in her early twenties, and she said to me, 'You are my childhood.' About the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. -JK Rowling -- J.k. Rowling
the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore : I was blind . That is what love does. I couldn't see that you needed to hear that this closed-up, tricky, dangerous old man ... loved you ... -- J.k. Rowling
Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing Potter for President over the crowd. His heart skipped. He felt braver. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry found the [tea] ... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help, snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck. -- J.k. Rowling
Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, -- J.k. Rowling
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces. -- J.k. Rowling
Excuse me, Professor Flitwick, could I borrow Wood for a moment?' Wood? thought Harry, bewildered; was Wood a cane she was going to use on him? -- J.k. Rowling
This time, as you will have seen, he killed not for revenge, but for gain. -- J.k. Rowling
I always said he was off his rocker,' said Ron, looking quite impressed at how mad his hero was. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck? -- J.k. Rowling
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me -- J.k. Rowling
Ever since Barry's funeral, Gavin had dwelled, with a sense of deep inadequacy, on the comparatively small gap that he was sure he would leave behind in his community, should he die. -- J.k. Rowling
it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn -- J.k. Rowling
Death comes for us all in the end. -- J.k. Rowling
The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept absentmindedly picking it up and turning the pages, as though it were a story he wanted to finish. And -- J.k. Rowling
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're dead, Potter."
Harry raised his eyebrows. "Funny," he said, "you'd think I'd have stopped walking around ... -- J.k. Rowling
I don't need to publish to make a living. -- J.k. Rowling
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived. -- J.k. Rowling
He thought it was a bit rich of Uncle Vernon to call anyone "dumpy," when his own son, Dudley, had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall. -- J.k. Rowling
Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place? And a whisper, a whisper about the Potters ... -- J.k. Rowling
Never be ashamed!There's some who'll hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with. -- J.k. Rowling
That's not the song it sang when it Sorted us," said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. "Sings a different one every year," said Ron. "It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one. -- J.k. Rowling
Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out! -- J.k. Rowling
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures. -- J.k. Rowling
Anything's possible if you just have the nerve. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet. -- J.k. Rowling
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. -- J.k. Rowling
The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it. Boa Constrictor, Brazil. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry took the wand. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry was suddenly reminded of how he had been unsure, when they first met, of how much he liked Ollivander. Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as much as it repulsed him. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me. -- J.k. Rowling
Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven. -- J.k. Rowling
Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened.
Enemies of the heir, beware. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn't we swear when we took him in we'd stamp out that dangerous nonsense? -- J.k. Rowling
And it's Gryffindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina! - it was a joke, Professor, it was a joke - oh no - Flint in possession, Flint flying toward the Gryffindor goal posts, come on now, Wood, save - ! -- J.k. Rowling
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke ... -- J.k. Rowling
all have magic inside us -- J.k. Rowling
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before ... and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world. -- J.k. Rowling
And don't expect me to explain everything, just trust me blindly, trust that I know what I'm doing, trust me even though I don't trust you! Never the whole truth! Never! -- J.k. Rowling
Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now. -- J.k. Rowling
But you would think, wouldn't you, that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt? - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy -- J.k. Rowling
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking ... -- J.k. Rowling
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. -- J.k. Rowling
You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! -- J.k. Rowling
You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack! -- J.k. Rowling
I think it's important that scared gay kids who aren't out yet see hate speech challenged. -- J.k. Rowling
You are - truly your father's son, Harry. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for. -- J.k. Rowling
But as for being about to kill me, Draco, you have had several long minutes now, we are quite alone, I am more defenseless than you can have dreamed of finding me, and still you have not acted. . . -- J.k. Rowling
I don't reckon he'd be studip enough to turn up.", said Ron bracingly. "Dumbledore'd go mad if he did and Sirius listens to Dumbledore even if he doesn't like what he hears. -- J.k. Rowling
The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming. -- J.k. Rowling
Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. -- J.k. Rowling
Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he? -- J.k. Rowling
No, thanks," said Harry. "The 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
if Voldemort's possessing me, I'm giving him a clear view into the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix right now! He'll know who's in the Order and where Sirius is . . . and I've heard loads of stuff I shouldn't have, everything Sirius told me the first night I was here. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
Hope springs eternal -- J.k. Rowling
You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking. -- J.k. Rowling
I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. "I ... must ... not ... look ... like ... a ... baboon's ... backside. -- J.k. Rowling
Crabbe or Goyle - or, come to think of it, another Death Eater, he'll have loads better cronies than Crabbe and Goyle now he's joined up -- J.k. Rowling
They had hoped that Goyle, who was almost as stupid as he was mean, might be thrown out, but he had passed, too. It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life. And -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Where's the cannon? -- J.k. Rowling
The death of Dougal McGregor, however, although traumatic, seemed to free Minerva. Shortly after Voldemort's first defeat, Elphinstone, now white-haired, proposed again during a summertime stroll around the lake in the Hogwarts grounds. This time Minerva accepted. -- J.k. Rowling
If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed. -- J.k. Rowling
Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible. -- J.k. Rowling
Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought. -- J.k. Rowling
You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts ... but you cannot deny he's got style ... -- J.k. Rowling
That remains to be seen," said Mr. Malfoy with a nasty smile. "But as all twelve of us have voted - " Hagrid leapt to his feet, his shaggy black head grazing the ceiling. "An' how many did yeh have ter threaten an' blackmail before they agreed, Malfoy, eh?" he roared. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems. -- J.k. Rowling
I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?"
"Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid. -- J.k. Rowling
I have had it all tested for poison," he assured Harry. "Had a house-elf taste every bottle after what happened to your poor friend Rupert. -- J.k. Rowling
Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor ... -- J.k. Rowling
Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor. -- J.k. Rowling
Do not resist and do not panic or the animal mind may gain the ascendancy and you could do something foolish, such as try to escape through a window or charge a wall. -- J.k. Rowling
The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic." There -- J.k. Rowling
Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say? ... and now he's sending dismembers after you? ... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY! -- J.k. Rowling
Blimey, Neville,' said Ron, 'there's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.' 'You didn't hear her,' said Neville. 'You wouldn't have stood it either. 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. -- J.k. Rowling
But the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. -- J.k. Rowling
Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP It -- J.k. Rowling
Messers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs
Purveyors of Aids to magical Mischief-Makers
are proud to present
THE MARAUDER'S MAP -- J.k. Rowling
Be good now, Potty...Weasel King... -- J.k. Rowling
Weasley is our king,
Weasley is our king,
He didn't let the quaffle in,
Weasley is our king.
Weasley can save anything,
He never leaves a single ring,
That's why Griffindors all sing,
Weasley is our king! -- J.k. Rowling
Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it. -- J.k. Rowling
Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball! -- J.k. Rowling
Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons, not what they needed, but what we needed. We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present. -- J.k. Rowling
No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine. -- J.k. Rowling
Neville had accidentally transplanted his own ears onto a cactus. -- J.k. Rowling
My parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. -- J.k. Rowling
Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised. -- J.k. Rowling
He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to him or hit him, both seemed quite appealing ... -- J.k. Rowling
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form. -- J.k. Rowling
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day. -- J.k. Rowling
I'll show them ... it'll really wipe the smiles off their faces if we win."
"Just as long as we're not wiping you off the field," said Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here! -- J.k. Rowling
The harsh cry startled the fox, now crouching almost flat in the undergrowth. It leapt from its hiding place and up the bank. There was a flash of green light, a yelp, and the fox fell back to the ground, dead. -- J.k. Rowling
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her -- J.k. Rowling
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you! -- J.k. Rowling
The door of the compartment slid open and the youngest redheaded boy came in. "Anyone sitting there?" he asked, pointing at the seat opposite Harry. "Everywhere else is full." Harry shook his head and the boy sat down. -- J.k. Rowling
Hufflepuff is a pushover. Last time we played them, Harry caught the Snitch in about five minutes, -- J.k. Rowling
Her punishment quill is of her own invention PARENTAGE: -- J.k. Rowling
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. -- J.k. Rowling
I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again. -- J.k. Rowling
Fred and George exchanged looks.
"You don't mind if we don't kiss you, do you, Ron?" said Fred in a falsely anxious voice.
"We could curtsy, if you like," said George.
"Oh, shut up," said Ron, scowling at them. -- J.k. Rowling
You've been popping into the fire every hour?' Harry said, half laughing.
'Just for a few seconds to check if the coast was clear. -- J.k. Rowling
Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me? -- J.k. Rowling
Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am
-Luna Lovegood -- J.k. Rowling
Yer a wizard, Harry! -- J.k. Rowling
Andrew returned to his contemplation of the dirty window with an ache in his heart and in his balls. -- J.k. Rowling
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh you may not think I'm pretty, but don't judge on what you see. -- J.k. Rowling
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! -- J.k. Rowling
Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? -- J.k. Rowling
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 skin. -- J.k. Rowling
I just hate meetings. -- J.k. Rowling
These girls ... they're going to kill me, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -- J.k. Rowling
Memory modifications as they spoke. "Oh, and I almost forgot," Fudge had added. "We're -- J.k. Rowling
HERMIONE Positions. Everybody. And remember, don't come out until he's got her in the light. We've one shot at this, we don't want to mess it up. They all move fast. DRACO Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger. (She turns towards him, he smiles.) And I'm mildly enjoying it. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't ask questions - that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys. -- J.k. Rowling
Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says:
My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak!
Thank you, Kwikspell! -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
She's as nutty as squirrel poo. -- J.k. Rowling
Albus: First question. What do you know about the Triwizard tournament?
Scorpius(happy): Ooooh, a quiz! Three schools pick three champions to compete in three tasks for one cup. What's that got to do with anything?
Albus: You really are an enormous geek, you know that?
Scorpius: Ya-huh. -- J.k. Rowling
Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it. -- J.k. Rowling
I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes) -- J.k. Rowling
DOBBY'S WARNING H -- J.k. Rowling
Offend Dobby!" choked the elf. "Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard - like an equal - -- J.k. Rowling
Draco Malfoy is a bad boy! squeaked Dobby angrily. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter set Dobby free! -- J.k. Rowling
Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! -- J.k. Rowling
Dobby never meant to kill. He only meant to maim, or seriously injure. -- J.k. Rowling
Here lies Dobby, a free elf. -- J.k. Rowling
There," she said softly. "Now he could be sleeping. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter is greater by far than Dobby knew!" he sobbed. "Farewell, Harry Potter! -- J.k. Rowling
Causing Dobby's eyes to leak with happiness again. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter set Dobby free!" "Least I could do, Dobby", said Harry, grinning. "Just promise never to try and save my life again. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby! -- J.k. Rowling
He had made his choice while he dug Dobby's grave, he had decided to continue along the winding, dangerous path indicated for him by Albus Dumbledore, to accept that he had not been told everything that he wanted to know, but simply to trust. -- J.k. Rowling
Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew. -- J.k. Rowling
Dobby, sir. Just Dobby. Dobby the house-elf, said the creature. -- J.k. Rowling
Got a sock," said Dobby in disbelief. "Master threw it, and Dobby caught it, and Dobby - Dobby is free. -- J.k. Rowling
Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy - Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater! -- J.k. Rowling
Do I look stupid? snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache. -- J.k. Rowling
Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold ... -- J.k. Rowling
It is hard to throw off long-established love:
hard, but this you must managed somehow -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning? -- J.k. Rowling
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real. -- J.k. Rowling
eyeing one another's new haircuts -- J.k. Rowling
What've we got this afternoon?" said Harry, hastily changing the subject. "Defense Against the Dark Arts," said Hermione at once. "Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?" Hermione snatched the schedule back, blushing furiously. -- J.k. Rowling
How come the Muggles don't hear the bus?" said Harry.
"Them!" said Stan contemptuously. "Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don'. -- J.k. Rowling
See, they're currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans. - Newt Scamander -- J.k. Rowling
They weren't in a room, as he had supposed. They were in a corridor. The forbidden corridor on the third floor. And now they knew why it was forbidden. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe. -- J.k. Rowling
Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.. -- J.k. Rowling
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. -- J.k. Rowling
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer. -- J.k. Rowling
to the castle feeling Saturday couldn't come quickly enough. They would have felt sorry for Hagrid when the time came for him to say good-bye to Norbert if they hadn't been -- J.k. Rowling
Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged. -- J.k. Rowling
We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we're mortal, we know it's going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it. -- J.k. Rowling
I would advise you to buy it, because if you read too long without handing over money you will find yourself the object of the Thief's Curse -- J.k. Rowling
Present and future, Harry Potter ... ' He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT -- J.k. Rowling
Harry, he's taking over the Ministry and the newspapers and half the Wizarding world! Don't let him inside your head too! -- J.k. Rowling
There can be no higher -- J.k. Rowling
When Rose came up to me today in Potions and called me Bread Head I almost hugged her. No, there's no almost about it, I actually tried to hug her, and then she kicked me in the shin. -- J.k. Rowling
The cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept. -- J.k. Rowling
Bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what's possible. -- J.k. Rowling
There will always be a easy path and a right path. -- J.k. Rowling
To hurt is as human as to breathe. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read? -- J.k. Rowling
Such loyalty is admirable, of course," said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, "but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone."
"He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him," said Harry, smiling in spite of himself. -- J.k. Rowling
Why is everything I own rubbish?' said Ron furiously, striding across the room to unstick Pigwidgeon's beak. -- J.k. Rowling
It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again -- J.k. Rowling
There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. -- J.k. Rowling
There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. -- J.k. Rowling
You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. -- J.k. Rowling
Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy." -- J.k. Rowling
The owls are nothing to the rumours that are flying around. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't count your owls before they are delivered. -- J.k. Rowling
It's the girls' toilets!' Harry gasped. -- J.k. Rowling
You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me. -- J.k. Rowling
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. -- J.k. Rowling
In one swift, fluid motion, Neville broke free of the Body-Bind Curse upon him; the flaming hat fell off him and he drew from its depths something silver, with a glittering, rubied handle - -- J.k. Rowling
We touch people's lives simply by existing. That is our privilege and our burden. -- J.k. Rowling
We believe that the dementors are currently taking direction from Lord - Thingy. -- J.k. Rowling
The true master of the Elder Wand was Draco Malfoy. -- J.k. Rowling
My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the ways we expect".
-Luna lovegood( Harry potter and the order of the phenoix) -- J.k. Rowling
Don't worry, your just as sane as I am. -- J.k. Rowling
Luna didn't seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, but the lost diadem," said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, "is lost, Luna. That's sort of the point. -- J.k. Rowling
Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.
"Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles. -- J.k. Rowling
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood -- J.k. Rowling
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
You're a wizard, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
He shed his name, as you know, within a few short years of that conversation and created the mask of "Lord Voldemort" behind which he has been hidden for so long. -- J.k. Rowling
George," said Fred, "I think we've outgrown full-time education."
"Yeah, I've been feeling that way myself," said George lightly. -- J.k. Rowling
Ask us no questions and we'll tell you no lies. -- J.k. Rowling
Time is Galleons, little brother. -- J.k. Rowling
Give her hell from us, Peeves. -- J.k. Rowling
We've got it [Percy's Head Boy badge]," Fred whispered to Harry. "We're improving it."
The badge now read Bighead Boy. -- J.k. Rowling
You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? -- J.k. Rowling
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. -- J.k. Rowling
I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead. -- J.k. Rowling
No, (slightly grandly) it's time that time-turning became a thing of the past. ALBUS: You're quite proud of that phrase, aren't you? SCORPIUS: Been working on it all day. -- J.k. Rowling
You're a wizard Harry." Hagrid
"I'm a what? I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter [1] -- J.k. Rowling
But you're dead,' said Harry.
'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.
'Then ... am I dead too?'
'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not. -- J.k. Rowling
He left her, never saw her again, and never troubled to discover what became of his son. -- J.k. Rowling
A gifted wizard, but an unlikely politician, McLaird was an exceptionally taciturn man who preferred to communicate in monosyllables and expressive puffs of smoke that he produced through the end of his wand. Forced from office out of sheer irritation at his eccentricities. -- J.k. Rowling
I set out for your parents' house straightaway. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm an emotional person. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, we find we appreciate you more and more, Mum, now we're washing our own socks -- J.k. Rowling
Listen to this: "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel"! -- J.k. Rowling
You - the three of you - you shone, you know? You liked each other. You had fun. I envied you those friendships more than anything else. -- J.k. Rowling
If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet -- J.k. Rowling
Ern! Ern! Guess 'oo Neville is, Ern! 'E's 'Arry Potter! I can see 'is scar! -- J.k. Rowling
I'm going to keep going until I succeed - or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years. -- J.k. Rowling
How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever? -- J.k. Rowling
The smell from the kitchen was getting stronger: It was something like burning underpants. -- J.k. Rowling
I think you're working and learning until you die. -- J.k. Rowling
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. -- J.k. Rowling
Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life. -- J.k. Rowling
As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did. -- J.k. Rowling
Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black. -- J.k. Rowling
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done. -- J.k. Rowling
Death is just life's next big adventure. -- J.k. Rowling
They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs. -- J.k. Rowling
Swish and flick. -- J.k. Rowling
My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. "I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He -- J.k. Rowling
I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet. -- J.k. Rowling
Then, three years ago, on a night very like tonight, the Prime Minister had been alone in his office when the portrait had once again announced the imminent arrival of Fudge, who had burst out of the fireplace, sopping wet and in a state of considerable panic. -- J.k. Rowling
Bagman swore loudly. 'Damn them!' he said, looking quite distracted, -- J.k. Rowling
And I'll see Sirius again. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
BY ORDER OF - - - The High Inquisitor of Hogwarts Any student found in possession of the magazine The Quibbler will be expelled. The above is in accordance with Educational Decree Number Twenty-seven. -- J.k. Rowling
Minerva McGonagall was one of only a handful of people who knew, or suspected, how dreadful a moment it was for Albus Dumbledore when, in 1945, he made the decision to confront and defeat the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. -- J.k. Rowling
I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. -- J.k. Rowling
The sort of happiness that did not enhance his handsome features, but made them, somehow, less human. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
And anyway, life's too short.... -- J.k. Rowling
Worst that can happen is Hagrid'll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best. -- J.k. Rowling
Blast-Ended Skrewts for a walk than -- J.k. Rowling
I'm very busy with schoolwork, of course."
"How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We're on vacation! -- J.k. Rowling
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
Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one. -- J.k. Rowling
Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate! -- J.k. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. -- J.k. Rowling
People stared more than ever on the train. Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent. -- J.k. Rowling
He had always called her "Krys," which nobody else had ever done. She had liked being Krys. -- J.k. Rowling
They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, we'll call you," muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, "If we ever need someone mental. -- J.k. Rowling
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. -- J.k. Rowling
Actually, I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. -- J.k. Rowling
Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive with Dudley was good to know; it made him feel slightly calmer. -- J.k. Rowling
we must use only the force that is necessary and no more. -- J.k. Rowling
Bed rest and a large steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up. -- J.k. Rowling
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale. -- J.k. Rowling
This is different, pretending to be me - " "Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry," said Fred earnestly. -- J.k. Rowling
I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick. -- J.k. Rowling
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities ... like the ability to behave myself. -- J.k. Rowling
For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway. -- J.k. Rowling
Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus? -- J.k. Rowling
Ah well ... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let's go. -- J.k. Rowling
The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. -- J.k. Rowling
If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU! -- J.k. Rowling
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way. -- J.k. Rowling
A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being. -- J.k. Rowling
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. -- J.k. Rowling
The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the way we expect. -Luna Loovegood -- J.k. Rowling
Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out ... though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love. -- J.k. Rowling
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. -- J.k. Rowling
Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra. -- J.k. Rowling
If she could have died ... if she could have disappeared forever ... but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live ... -- J.k. Rowling
I've laid my friends bare. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry noticed a ring on his uninjured hand that he had never seen Dumbledore wear before: It was large, rather clumsily made of what looked like gold, and was set with a heavy black stone that had cracked down the middle. -- J.k. Rowling
Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher,' said Harry loudly, 'there was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head.' This -- J.k. Rowling
He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean ... -- J.k. Rowling
But the more I hint I want to finish it, the tighter she holds on. It's like going out with the giant squid. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
There was courage in no disguising the animal you happened to be. -- J.k. Rowling
I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. -- J.k. Rowling
He could not return to living full-time with the Dursleys, not now that he knew the other world, the one to which he really belonged. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry -- J.k. Rowling
I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness. -- J.k. Rowling
I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain's; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country ... -- J.k. Rowling
Parvati Patil, and isn't there a practical bit in our Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L.? Aren't we -- J.k. Rowling
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. - -- J.k. Rowling
My ideal birthday gift would be harmony between all magic and non-magic peoples - though I wouldn't say no to a large bottle of Ogden's Old Firewhisky! -- J.k. Rowling
He used to down an entire bottle of firewhisky, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his - -- J.k. Rowling
Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never."
"Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh. -- J.k. Rowling
I never thought I'd see the day when you'd be persuading us to break rules, said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. -- J.k. Rowling
What will come, will come; you just have to be there to meet it. -- J.k. Rowling
And what the ruddy hell are Dementors? -- J.k. Rowling
Always the tone of surpise. -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid gulped, but no words came out. "Could you write it down?" Harry suggested. "Nah - can't spell it. All right - Voldemort. -- J.k. Rowling
Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched the clocks to go extra-fast. -- J.k. Rowling
YOUR PATHETIC!" Harry yelled. "JUST BECAUSE THEY MADE A FOOL OF YOU AT SCHOOL YOU WON'T EVEN LISTEN -- -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut."
Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again. -- J.k. Rowling
There was much less laughter and a lot more hanging around in the library when Hermione was your best friend. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
And now - Piertotum Locomotor! cried Professor McGonagall. -- J.k. Rowling
I am not worried, Harry, I am with you. -- J.k. Rowling
Didn't you hear what they said about my sister? But you don't give a rat's fart, do you, it's only the Forbidden Forest, Harry I've-Faced-Worse Potter doesn't care what happens to her in here - well, I do, all right, giant spiders and mental stuff - -- J.k. Rowling
A CLEAN CAULDRON KEEPS POTIONS FROM BECOMING POISONS and ANTIDOTES ARE ANTI-DON'TS UNLESS APPROVED BY A QUALIFIED HEALER. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry slipped down a few stairs in shock. It was packed, far more crowded than when he had last been in there. Kingsley and Lupin were looking up at him, as were Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet, Bill and Fleur, and Mr and Mrs Weasley. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm your son!" he screamed up at Crouch. "I'm your son!" "You are no son of mine!" bellowed Mr. Crouch, his eyes bulging suddenly. "I have no son! -- J.k. Rowling
I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. -- J.k. Rowling
They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here and you're in my power. I'm the one with the wand. You're at my mercy."
"No, Draco," said Dumbledore quietly. "It is my mercy, and not yours, that matters now. -- J.k. Rowling
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. -- J.k. Rowling
Size is no guarantee of power. -- J.k. Rowling
Mischief Managed. -- J.k. Rowling
The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes ... It'll be like a holiday, won't it? -- J.k. Rowling
Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight. -- J.k. Rowling
Good even, my fine young yeomen! Come clap this loon in irons. -- J.k. Rowling
But Death was cunning. -- J.k. Rowling
It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. -- J.k. Rowling
Curses and Counter-curses (Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle Your Enemies with the Latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and Much, Much More) by Professor Vindictus Viridian. -- J.k. Rowling
Whether you come back by page or on the big screen, Hogwarts wll always be there to welcome you hoome. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh Professor, look! I think I've got an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?" "It is Uranus, my dear, -- J.k. Rowling
His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky. -- J.k. Rowling
from yet another pocket inside his overcoat he pulled an owl - a real, live, rather ruffled-looking owl - a long quill, and a roll of parchment. -- J.k. Rowling
Sometimes, we have to choose between what is right and what is easy -- J.k. Rowling
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? -- J.k. Rowling
Professor McGonagall had a way of making him feel he must have done something wrong. -- J.k. Rowling
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it! -- J.k. Rowling
He stood up. His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill a lifetime's beats before the end. He did not look back as he closed the office door. -- J.k. Rowling
Until the very end -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye." And -- J.k. Rowling
We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled. -- J.k. Rowling
Merlin's beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, Potter, you rotter, oh, what have you done,
You're killing off students, you think it's good fun - -- J.k. Rowling
you are determined to hate him, Harry -- J.k. Rowling
We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron.
"I figured that out myself, funnily enough. -- J.k. Rowling
You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you. -- J.k. Rowling
It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here -- J.k. Rowling
I'll be fine, I'll be with Dumbledore, -- J.k. Rowling
And no wonder we couldn't find Flamel in that Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry," said Ron. "He's not exactly recent if he's six hundred and sixty-five, is he? -- J.k. Rowling
Curiosity is not a sin -- J.k. Rowling
A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain:
She's Ron's sister.
But she's ditched Dean!
She's still Ron's sister.
I'm his best mate!
That'll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He'd hit you.
What if I don't care?
He's your best mate! -- J.k. Rowling
Are - you - insane? said Hermione in a hushed voice.
'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging. -- J.k. Rowling
Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once. -- J.k. Rowling
For the first time in his life, he wanted his wand back in his hand, not to defend himself, but to attack ... to kill. -- J.k. Rowling
Studying the young woman's long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different. -- J.k. Rowling
What's life without a few dragons? - Ron Weasley -- J.k. Rowling
It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to." "So no pressure, Harry," said Fred, winking at him. -- J.k. Rowling
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? -- J.k. Rowling
Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear they're going to use our products to get rid of this old bat,' added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge. -- J.k. Rowling
May I offer you a cough drop, Dolores?" Professor McGonagall asked curtly, without looking at Professor Umbridge. -- J.k. Rowling
Tut, tut," said Professor Umbridge. "That won't do, now, will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class! -- J.k. Rowling
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! Your -- J.k. Rowling
The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid. -- J.k. Rowling
No two Ollivander wands are the same, just as no two unicorns, dragons or phoenixes are quite the same. -- J.k. Rowling
easier to forgive others -- J.k. Rowling
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. -- J.k. Rowling
think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your -- J.k. Rowling
If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they'd have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That'd lead 'em right! That's all I'm sayin'. -- J.k. Rowling
One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, he is marvelous," she said. "He knows his household pests, all right, it's a wonderful book. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
What will come will come, and we will have to meet it, when it does. avoiding death does not extend our time on earth, but facing it valiantly does, because although we are gone in form, we live on and on in the hearts of the people. -- J.k. Rowling
Quirrell is, in effect, turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort. He -- J.k. Rowling
I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. -- J.k. Rowling
Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy - this boy! - knows nothin' abou' - about ANYTHING?"
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff. -- J.k. Rowling
You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed ... You need it.
Jo speaking to Charlie Rose re: writing -- J.k. Rowling
Arthur and Fred - "
"I'm George," said the twin at whom Moody was pointing. "Can't you even tell us apart when we're Harry?"
"Sorry, George - "
"I'm only yanking your wand, I'm Fred really - -- J.k. Rowling
You're not," he said, his quiet voice full of hatred. "Not what?" snapped Riddle. "Not the greatest sorcerer in the world," said Harry, breathing fast. "Sorry to disappoint you and all that, but the greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore. Everyone says so. -- J.k. Rowling
It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good. -- J.k. Rowling
You filthy hypocrite! What about you and Lavender, thrashing around like a pair of eels all over the place?" demanded Ginny. -- J.k. Rowling
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning the pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty. -- J.k. Rowling
There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be. -- J.k. Rowling
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. -- J.k. Rowling
Lockhart cuffed Harry merrily on the shoulder. "Just do what I did, Harry!" "What, drop my wand? -- J.k. Rowling
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his - -- J.k. Rowling
Just because you're allowed to use magic now you don't have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing! -- J.k. Rowling
Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. -- J.k. Rowling
Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things. -- J.k. Rowling
Stand over the baby - and just repeatedly shout HELP. HELP. HELP. I mean, it might traumatize the baby slightly. ALBUS: -- J.k. Rowling
Lumos (noun; lu-mos): 1. A spell to create light, also known as the Wand-Lighting Charm. (Origin: the Harry Potter series) 2. A nonprofit working to end the institutionalization of children. It -- J.k. Rowling
You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default. -- J.k. Rowling
Jacob Kowalski: I'm sure people like you,too.
Newt Scamander: No, not really. I'm annoying. -- J.k. Rowling
Early next morning, Harry woke with a plan fully formed in his mind, as though his sleeping brain had been working on it all night. -- J.k. Rowling
She refused to back away, but looked down at him as if he were something disgusting she had found stuck to a lavatory seat. -- J.k. Rowling
It was one of my more brilliant ideas, and between you and me, that's saying something. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry's heart began to pump very fast indeed. Defense against external penetration? -- J.k. Rowling
the ceiling was too high to make out, -- J.k. Rowling
Merlin's beard, Harry, you made me jump," said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. "How did you get out of the castle?"
"I think Filch must've forgotten to lock the doors," said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world. -- J.k. Rowling
When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeh can' really remember who yeh are after a while. An' yeh can' see the point o' livin' at all. I used ter hope I'd jus' die in me sleep. . . . When they let me out, it was like bein' born again, ev'rythin' came floodin' back, it was the bes' feelin' in the world. -- J.k. Rowling
They could hear people complaining; one surly voice said, "I can't see no gas ... "
"That's because it's colorless," said Ginny in a convincingly exasperated voice, "but if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who didn't believe us ... -- J.k. Rowling
Listen to me. It - it doesn't make very nice reading - " "Yeah, you could say that - " " - but don't forget, Harry, this is Rita Skeeter writing. -- J.k. Rowling
Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose. -- J.k. Rowling
whose dark and icy depths were starting to seem as distant as the moon. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as -- J.k. Rowling
SCORPIUS: Always. -- J.k. Rowling
Just because you've got the emotional rang of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have,' said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. -- J.k. Rowling
I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there. -- J.k. Rowling
Of course I loved you . . . and I knew that it would happen all over again . . . that where I loved, I would cause irreparable damage. I am no fit person to love . . . I have never loved without causing harm. -- J.k. Rowling
Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship. -- J.k. Rowling
You're scary when you're in a good mood, you know that ? -- J.k. Rowling
I do not think Sirius ever saw Kreacher as a being with feelings as acute as a human's. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, why don't we have the night off? ... D'you know ... I think I'm feeling a bit ... Rebellious. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, it's no good crying over spilled potion, I suppose . . . but the cat's among the pixies now . . . -- J.k. Rowling
She's unhappy!" said Hermione, exasperated. "Why don't you try and cheer her up instead of covering her up? -- J.k. Rowling
How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested. -- J.k. Rowling
And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone! -- J.k. Rowling
Newt: I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts!
Queenie: HOGWASH. -- J.k. Rowling
But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much. -- J.k. Rowling
The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizarding world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you, in one night, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons! -- J.k. Rowling
...I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failing of age. Youth cannot 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 forgoten, lately... -- J.k. Rowling
P.S. I enjoy acid pops. -- J.k. Rowling
I feel 80% of my life is completely normal. -- J.k. Rowling
It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies. -- J.k. Rowling
You will stay for dinner?" he called, as he vanished downstairs again. "Everybody always requests our recipe for Freshwater Plimpy soup."
"Probably to show the Poisoning Department at St. Mungo's," said Ron under his breath. -- J.k. Rowling
Do either of you know what House you'll be in? I've been asking around, and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best; I hear Dumbledore himself was in it, but I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad. . . -- J.k. Rowling
He closed his eyes, and suddenly he was Voldemort, -- J.k. Rowling
Ron: [mimicking Hermione] "It's Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR." She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends! -- J.k. Rowling
Its not Wingardium Levio-sa its wingrardium levi-o-sa -- J.k. Rowling
bloody nose. Fred, -- J.k. Rowling
Brazil, here I come. . . . Thanksss, amigo. -- J.k. Rowling
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, Ron, what's it to you if my schedule's a bit full?" Hermione snapped. "I told you, I've fixed it all with Professor McGonagall. -- J.k. Rowling
But you won't help her son," said Harry. "She gave me her life, but you won't give me a memory. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable. -- J.k. Rowling
Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for. -- J.k. Rowling
GINNY: Does your scar hurt? HARRY: No. No. I'm fine. Now, Nox that and let's get some sleep. GINNY: Harry. How long has it been since your scar hurt? HARRY turns to GINNY, his face says it all. HARRY: Twenty-two years. -- J.k. Rowling
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. -- J.k. Rowling
Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on. -- J.k. Rowling
A Wrackspurt ... They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy," she said. "I thought I felt one zooming around in here. -- J.k. Rowling
throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They -- J.k. Rowling
Green is a soothing color, isn't it? I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is - it is said to send you a little mad - not that I'm casting aspersions . . . -- J.k. Rowling
Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. -- J.k. Rowling
Play to your strengths."
"I haven't got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself.
"Excuse me," growled Moody, "you've got strengths if I say you've got them. -- J.k. Rowling
You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. -- J.k. Rowling
Wake up, Mr No-Maj . . . With -- J.k. Rowling
That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! -- J.k. Rowling
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. -- J.k. Rowling
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. -- J.k. Rowling
We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason - "
"So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual - "
" - detention - "
" - disembowelment - -- J.k. Rowling
There are much more terrible things than physical injury. -- J.k. Rowling
You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. 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 -- J.k. Rowling
I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. -- J.k. Rowling
If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said Ron, "but no pressure. -- J.k. Rowling
They all go haywire around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air. No, -- J.k. Rowling
Help only comes to those who ask for it. -- J.k. Rowling
Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one's body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form ... -- J.k. Rowling
He could still see his parents beaming up at him from the tattered old photograph, unaware that their lives, like so many of those around them, were drawing to a close. The -- J.k. Rowling
Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry had the best morning he'd had in a long time. He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him. -- J.k. Rowling
If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you. -- J.k. Rowling
Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles -- J.k. Rowling
AHA!" screamed a voice from overhead ... Peeves was hanging upside down from a chandelier and grinning maliciously at them.
"Potty asked Loony to go to the party! Potty lurves Loony! Potty luuuuurves Looooooony!"
And he zoomed away, cackling and shrieking, "Potty loves Loony! -- J.k. Rowling
I still can't work out how you two got the best-looking girls in the year," muttered Dean. "Animal magnetism," said Ron gloomily, pulling stray threads out of his cuffs. -- J.k. Rowling
Let muggles manage without us! -- J.k. Rowling
If Harry had not known who lived there, he would have guessed at a rich, fussy old lady. -- J.k. Rowling
Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ... -- J.k. Rowling
Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises. -- J.k. Rowling
Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful! -- J.k. Rowling
Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute! -- J.k. Rowling
I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing ... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory. -- J.k. Rowling
Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! -- J.k. Rowling
No post on Sundays," he reminded them cheerfully as he spread marmalade on his newspapers, "no damn letters today - " Something -- J.k. Rowling
God Rest Ye Merry, Hippogriffs" at -- J.k. Rowling
He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though ... keep up with my news ... check if I'm happy ... -- J.k. Rowling
Always the tone of surprise. -- J.k. Rowling
Her family half carried Terri Weedon back down the royal blue carpet, and the congregation averted its eyes. -- J.k. Rowling
Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? -- J.k. Rowling
I have some problems with conventional organized religion. -- J.k. Rowling
HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO! -- J.k. Rowling
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. -- J.k. Rowling
Your father was the best friend I ever had, and he was a good person. A -- J.k. Rowling
The wand chooses the wizard, -- J.k. Rowling
If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.'-Sirius black. -- J.k. Rowling
Professor McGonagall: Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics. -- J.k. Rowling
SORTING HAT: "Albus Potter."
He puts his hat on Albus's head - and this time he seems to take longer - almost as if he too is confused.
"SLYTHERIN!"
There's a silence.
A perfect, profound silence.
One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't think you're a waste of space. -- J.k. Rowling
Still famous," said Ron, grinning at him. "Not where I'm going, I promise you," said Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
I think I know who that one's from," said Ron, turning a bit pink and pointing to a very lumpy parcel. "My mum. I told her you didn't expect any presents and - oh, no," he groaned, "she's made you a Weasley sweater. -- J.k. Rowling
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them. -- J.k. Rowling
He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville's snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did. -- J.k. Rowling
This is almost a Spartacus moment. There are gasps. Hermione -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do. -- J.k. Rowling
Failure, failure is so important, it doesn't get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans... -- J.k. Rowling
Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief. -- J.k. Rowling
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations, said Ron, to general astonishment. -- J.k. Rowling
There isn't one," said Harry, still disoriented by the sudden appearance of all these people, unable to take everything n while his scar was still burning so fiercely.
"Just going to make it up as we go along, are we? My favorite kind," said Fred. -- J.k. Rowling
Troll - in the dungeons - thought you ought to know. -- J.k. Rowling
Madam Hooch then showed them how to mount their brooms without sliding off the end, and walked up and down the rows, correcting their grips. Harry and Ron were delighted when she told Malfoy he'd been doing it wrong for years. -- J.k. Rowling
The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. -- J.k. Rowling
There was a very small pile of silver Sickles inside, and just one gold Galleon. -- J.k. Rowling
Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died? said Ron, who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy. -- J.k. Rowling
For instance, Slytherin Took only pure-blood wizards Of great cunning, just like him, -- J.k. Rowling
By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition. -- J.k. Rowling
Stone dead, said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid. -- J.k. Rowling
surprise, she seized Fred and George and pulled them both into such a tight hug that their heads -- J.k. Rowling
Hey, Mr English guy! I think your egg is hatching. - Jacob Kowalski -- J.k. Rowling
The Boy Who Lived' remains a symbol of everything for which we are fighting: the triumph of good, the power of innocence, the need to keep resisting. -- J.k. Rowling
No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really. -- J.k. Rowling
Some wounds run too deep for the healing. -- J.k. Rowling
Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl! -- J.k. Rowling
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say. -- J.k. Rowling
She needs to sort out her priorities -- J.k. Rowling
A good first impression can work wonders -- J.k. Rowling
We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness -- J.k. Rowling
Half an hour later, Harry and Ron, who had dressed and breakfasted quickly, entered the drawing room, -- J.k. Rowling
Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something. -- J.k. Rowling
Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time. -- J.k. Rowling
As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic. -- J.k. Rowling
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it. -- J.k. Rowling
Bless my soul," whispered the old bartender, "Harry Potter ... what an honor. -- J.k. Rowling
When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over. -- J.k. Rowling
What would come, would come ... and you would have to meet it, when it did. -- J.k. Rowling
The air was soon thick with flying gnomes. -- J.k. Rowling
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. -- J.k. Rowling
I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter -- J.k. Rowling
Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him.
"You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth. -- J.k. Rowling
I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends. -- J.k. Rowling
Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback -- J.k. Rowling
Pettigrew owes his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy who is in your debt. When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain bond between them . . . and I'm much mistaken if Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
Mused, examining her own stunning reflection -- J.k. Rowling
He will only be gone from the school when none are loyal to him. -- J.k. Rowling
Good one," said Ron, copying it down. "Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don't you get stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend?" "Yeah . . . cool . . ." said Harry, scribbling it down, "because . . . Venus is in the twelfth house. -- J.k. Rowling
Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?'
'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. -- J.k. Rowling
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. -- J.k. Rowling
Books can be misleading -- J.k. Rowling
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. -- J.k. Rowling
I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good. -- J.k. Rowling
The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have. -- J.k. Rowling
The dementors send their love, Potter! -- J.k. Rowling
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. -- J.k. Rowling
Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.. -- J.k. Rowling
I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry couldn't sleep. He shivered and turned over, trying -- J.k. Rowling
they'll get a lot more than detention for blackmail! -- J.k. Rowling
The only people who can see thestrals," she said, "are people who have seen death. -- J.k. Rowling
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. -- J.k. Rowling
I've done this job for centuries On every student's head I've sat Of thoughts I take inventories For I'm the famous Sorting Hat I've sorted high, I've sorted low, I've done the job through thick and thin So put me on and you will know Which House you should be in -- J.k. Rowling
You'd think a bit of kissing would cheer her up. -- J.k. Rowling
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 skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, -- J.k. Rowling
Master, I am sorry, I knew not, I was fighting the Animagus Black! sobbed Bellatrix, -- J.k. Rowling
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. -- J.k. Rowling
Not a week has passed since I became headmaster of this school when I haven't had at least one owl complaining about the way I run it. But what should I do? Barricade myself in my study and refuse to talk to anybody? -- J.k. Rowling
Finding out what you're good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect. -- J.k. Rowling
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
He fought it, and he damn near beat it! We -- J.k. Rowling
I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess. -- J.k. Rowling
According to the magazine, if you turned the runes on their heads they revealed a spell to make your enemy's ears into kumquats. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm a teacher! A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!"
"I'm sorry, sir," said Harry, emphasizing the last word.
Hagrid looked stunned. "Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?"
"Since when have you called me 'Potter'? -- J.k. Rowling
And the Slytherins don't need a spy, Oliver," said George. "What makes you say that?" said Wood testily. "Because they're here in person," said George, pointing. -- J.k. Rowling
Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives. -- J.k. Rowling
You know your mother, Malfoy?" said Harry "That expression she's got, like she's got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her? -- J.k. Rowling
Albus hugs his friend. With fierceness. They hold for a beat. Scorpius is surprised by this. "Okay. Hello. Um. Have we hugged before? Do we hug?."
The two boys dislocate. -- J.k. Rowling
How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Potter -- J.k. Rowling
You see what you expect to see, Severus. -- J.k. Rowling
You're just as sane as I am.' Smiling -- J.k. Rowling
It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question. -- J.k. Rowling
Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.
Harry: We're the same age, Draco.
Draco: I wear it better. -- J.k. Rowling
Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods! -- J.k. Rowling
Who continued their new policy of feigning deafness whenever Harry mentioned his Malfoy-Is-a-Death-Eater theory. -- J.k. Rowling
Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly.
It was Harry's turn to laugh.
"Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you? -- J.k. Rowling
You foul, lying, evil little cockroach! -- J.k. Rowling
We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy. -- J.k. Rowling
You know it's the strangest of things, but ever since being in the scariest place imaginable I'm pretty much good with fear. I am - Scorpius the Dreadless. I am - Malfoy the Unanxious. -- J.k. Rowling
- and we're going to make them rue the day they let that little bit of slime, Malfoy, buy his way onto their team. Chest -- J.k. Rowling
It is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past. -- J.k. Rowling
Malfoy was screaming and holding Harry so tightly it hurt. Then, -- J.k. Rowling
LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -- J.k. Rowling
You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments."
"Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git. -- J.k. Rowling
- SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry tried every variation of 'I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you' that he could think of for a whole hour, at -- J.k. Rowling
There's no need to tell me I'm not brave enough to be in Gryffindor, Malfoy's already done that," Neville choked out. -- J.k. Rowling
Montague's just been found in a toilet, Sir. -- J.k. Rowling
Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig... -- J.k. Rowling
Training for the ballet, Potter? yelled Malfoy. -- J.k. Rowling
Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos! -- J.k. Rowling
I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me! -- J.k. Rowling
Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it. -- J.k. Rowling
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
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail. -- J.k. Rowling
Prongs rode again last night. -- J.k. Rowling
What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise... -- J.k. Rowling
Who's avoiding you?" said Ron, sitting down next to them. "Wish you would," said Fred, looking irritated at the interruption. "What's a bummer?" Ron asked George. "Having a nosy git like you for a brother," said George. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not a natural joiner. -- J.k. Rowling
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? -- J.k. Rowling
We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun! -- J.k. Rowling
The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore. -- J.k. Rowling
How thick would Harry have to be, to go looking for a nutter who wants to kill him? said Ron shakily. -- J.k. Rowling
I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on. -- J.k. Rowling
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive. -- J.k. Rowling
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going. -- J.k. Rowling
His heart, which seemed to have swollen to an unnatural size, was thumping loudly under his ribs. -- J.k. Rowling
I think it's the books that you read when you're young that live with you forever. -- J.k. Rowling
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brains. -- J.k. Rowling
The stories we love best do live in us forever. -- J.k. Rowling
And here we have six missing Death Eaters ... three dead in my service. One, too cowardly to return ... he will pay. One, who I believe has left me for ever ... he will be killed, of course ... and one who remains my most faithful servant, and who has already re-entered my service. -- J.k. Rowling
MODESTY My momma, your momma, gonna catch a witch My momma, your momma, flying on a switch My momma, your momma, witches never cry My momma, your momma, witches gonna die! As -- J.k. Rowling
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself -- J.k. Rowling
Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good ... -- J.k. Rowling
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -- J.k. Rowling
Magic always leaves traces... -- J.k. Rowling
Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?"
"Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione.
"Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully. -- J.k. Rowling
George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team."
Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it. -- J.k. Rowling
One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form. -- J.k. Rowling
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal. -- J.k. Rowling
But I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two'd value yer friend more'n broomsticks or rats. Tha's all. -- J.k. Rowling
spell books and broomsticks? Might -- J.k. Rowling
I thought yer'd hold yer friends higher than broomsticks and rats -- J.k. Rowling
I thought you two'd value yer friend more'n broomsticks or rats. Tha's all. - Hagrid -- J.k. Rowling
Live every day to your best and never worry about tomorrow. -- J.k. Rowling
don't go biting off more than you can chew. -- J.k. Rowling
A song that relates to Harry is don't tell'm . This relates to Harry because he has to keep from everyone that he is a wizard. Only he and his family knows this. -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid. You live in a wooden house! -- J.k. Rowling
Mr. Weasley looked for a moment as though he was going to ask what these big plans were, but seemed to decide, upon reflection, that he didn't want to know. -- J.k. Rowling
They were allowed to remain inside over break due to the downpour outside. They -- J.k. Rowling
She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves. -- J.k. Rowling
Hedwig clicked her beak with a sort of dignified disapproval. -- J.k. Rowling
We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.'
You will, will you?'
Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall. -- J.k. Rowling
He'd really done something to be proud of now - no one could say he was just a famous name any more. -- J.k. Rowling
The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.. -- J.k. Rowling
Ah," said Dumbledore gently, "yes. Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag. -- J.k. Rowling
Worrying means you suffer twice -- J.k. Rowling
Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough ... -- J.k. Rowling
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. -- J.k. Rowling
He felt dirty, contaminated, as though he were carrying some deadly germ, unworthy to sit on the underground train back from the hospital with innocent, clean people whose minds and bodies were free of the taint of Voldemort. . -- J.k. Rowling
No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise -- J.k. Rowling
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. -- J.k. Rowling
She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever. -- J.k. Rowling
At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!"
"Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten.
"Hey
hey you lot! Midgets! -- J.k. Rowling
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? -- J.k. Rowling
I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed.
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones. -- J.k. Rowling
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. -- J.k. Rowling
Put your foot down, Fred! yelled Ron, and the car shot suddenly toward the moon. -- J.k. Rowling
Colin, I fell! It was brilliant! -- J.k. Rowling
It's a lame trick. Everyone enjoys its lameness. LILY: -- J.k. Rowling
Outside the Apothecary, Hagrid checked Harry's list again.
'Just yer wand left
oh yeah, an I still haven't got yeh a birthday present.'
Harry felt himself go red.
'You don't have to
'
'I know I don't have to. Tell yeh what, I'll get yer animal. -- J.k. Rowling
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they -- J.k. Rowling
I - I didn't think - "
"That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious. -- J.k. Rowling
You'd be stiff if you'd been sitting on a brick wall all day, said Professor McGonagall. -- J.k. Rowling
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! -- J.k. Rowling
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards. -- J.k. Rowling
Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should. -- J.k. Rowling
No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood, he spat. -- J.k. Rowling
Shut it, you, said Ron, banging down its visor as they passed. -- J.k. Rowling
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman - Spell It Or He'll Swing! -- J.k. Rowling
Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure? -- J.k. Rowling
There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'! -- J.k. Rowling
House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that; -- J.k. Rowling
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards. -- J.k. Rowling
jinxes when they want to make -- J.k. Rowling
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. -- J.k. Rowling
They all nodded and he saw five pairs of knees tighten beneath their robes. -- J.k. Rowling
And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex! - James Potter -- J.k. Rowling
It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left ... I've seen what you'll be otherwise ... Be a man ... try ... Try for some remorse ... -- J.k. Rowling
He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together. -- J.k. Rowling
But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
"Hermione, Neville's right - you are a girl ... "
"Oh well spotted," she said acidly. -- J.k. Rowling
Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry was watching the painting. -- J.k. Rowling
Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staffroom fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. -- J.k. Rowling
Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach those with brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same. -- J.k. Rowling
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. -- J.k. Rowling
You - complete - arse - Ronald - Weasley! -- J.k. Rowling
Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting. -- J.k. Rowling
Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does. -- J.k. Rowling
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment. -- J.k. Rowling
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. -- J.k. Rowling
And he was a top-security prisoner too. -- J.k. Rowling
Everything feels too important for movement. -- J.k. Rowling
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him! -- J.k. Rowling
WHO HAD TO GET PAST DRAGONS AND SPHINXES AND EVERY OTHER FOUL THING LAST YEAR? WHO SAW HIM COME BACK? WHO HAD TO ESCAPE FROM HIM? ME! -- J.k. Rowling
Percy, who was looking immensely -- J.k. Rowling
It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices. -- J.k. Rowling
You think he is mistaken? Or that I have somehow hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen? -- J.k. Rowling
I'm tall,' said Ron inconsequentially. -- J.k. Rowling
First of all, Harry, I want to thank you," said Dumbledore, eyes twinkling again. "You must have shown me real loyalty down in the Chamber. Nothing but that could have called Fawkes to you. -- J.k. Rowling
DRACO: I don't care what you did or who you saved, you are a constant curse on my family, Harry Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't think you will kill me Draco. Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe. -- J.k. Rowling
Up everything from tiny cracks in the walls to mouse holes. Sir Cadogan had been fired. His portrait had been taken back to its -- J.k. Rowling
Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid -- J.k. Rowling
It's what they call it when they suck the soul out of your mouth. -- J.k. Rowling
Blimey! There are two of them! -- J.k. Rowling
I suppose he is asleep?" said Ron quietly as the witch slid the compartment door closed. "I mean - he hasn't died, has he?" "No, no, he's breathing," whispered Hermione -- J.k. Rowling
Don't play," said Hermione at once.
"Say you're ill," said Ron.
"Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested.
"Really break your leg," said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe. -- J.k. Rowling
Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me. -- J.k. Rowling
Hold yer hippogriffs, I haven' finished me story yet! -- J.k. Rowling
A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. -- J.k. Rowling
He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand,' said Dumbledore curtly. 'Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. He needs to know who has put him through the ordeal he has suffered tonight, and why. -- J.k. Rowling
Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war! -- J.k. Rowling
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -- J.k. Rowling
In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes. -- J.k. Rowling
She's a veela!" he said hoarsely to Harry.
"Of course she isn't!" said Hermione tartly. "I don't see anyone else gaping at her like an idiot! -- J.k. Rowling
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am. -- J.k. Rowling
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud. -- J.k. Rowling
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. -- J.k. Rowling
It was an unpleasant scene; the twins had evidently been trying to smuggle as many toffees out of the house as possible, and it was only by using her Summoning Charm that Mrs. Weasley managed to find them all. -- J.k. Rowling
Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go. -- J.k. Rowling
Psychedelic spectacles from the middle of The Quibbler. No point now we've -- J.k. Rowling
THE KEEPER OF THE KEYS B -- J.k. Rowling
They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died, -- J.k. Rowling
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours. -- J.k. Rowling
Those who want power do not deserve it.
And those who deserve power do not want it. -- J.k. Rowling
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey? -- J.k. Rowling
It seemed that Dudley was struggling with concepts too difficult to put into words. After several moments of apparently painful internal struggle he said, "But where's he going to go? -- J.k. Rowling
You're the cleverest witch of your age I've ever met, Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
If only there had been a dementor around. . . . As a sobbing Wood passed Harry the Cup, as he lifted it into the air, Harry felt he could have produced the world's best Patronus. -- J.k. Rowling
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. -- J.k. Rowling
Intelligence'?" repeated Magorian, as Bane and several others roared with rage and pawed the ground. "We consider that a great insult, human! -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid, who had told them last lesson that they had finished with unicorns, was waiting for them outside his cabin with a fresh supply of open crates at his feet. Harry's heart sank at the sight of the crates - surely not another skrewt hatching? - but -- J.k. Rowling
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
It was a dream," he told himself firmly. "I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes I'll be at home in my cupboard. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm more of a chaser, really. ANGLE -- J.k. Rowling
Hissy, hissy, little snakey, Slither on the floor, You be good to Morfin Or he'll nail you to the door. -- J.k. Rowling
Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard . . . very important. -- J.k. Rowling
What? Isn't there just a password? -- J.k. Rowling
Several people in green robes were -- J.k. Rowling
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You -- J.k. Rowling
This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard. -- J.k. Rowling
How do you remember stuff like that?' asked Ron, looking at her in admiration. 'I listen, Ron,' said Hermione, with a touch of asperity. -- J.k. Rowling
I love you, Hermione," said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! -- J.k. Rowling
If you wanted to explore the castle forever and ever, you'd need to get hold of the Philosopher's Stone. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeh don' know what yeh are?" he said finally. Uncle Vernon suddenly found his voice. "Stop!" he commanded. "Stop right there, sir! I forbid you to tell the boy anything! -- J.k. Rowling
Dursleys hadn't even remembered that today happened to be Harry's twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn't been high; they'd never given him a real present, -- J.k. Rowling
But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were? -- J.k. Rowling
When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits. -- J.k. Rowling
The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake. -- J.k. Rowling
If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of Voldemort. -- J.k. Rowling
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. -- J.k. Rowling
A resolution should not deal with more than one subject ... Disregard of this rule usually leads to confused discussion and may lead to confused action ... -- J.k. Rowling
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself. -- J.k. Rowling
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. -- J.k. Rowling
It was either a very big cat or quite a small tiger, said Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
You wonderful boy. You brave, brave man. Let us walk. -- J.k. Rowling
Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love. -- J.k. Rowling
Squeezing the bubotubers was disgusting, but oddly satisfying. -- J.k. Rowling
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. -- J.k. Rowling
Bill, don't look at me - I'm 'ideous. -- J.k. Rowling
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, shut up Weatherby. -- J.k. Rowling
Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage. -- J.k. Rowling
Draco you are not a killer -- J.k. Rowling
I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want them to do, without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to. -- J.k. Rowling
I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, exactly. I heard he's a sort of savage - lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed." "I think he's brilliant," said Harry coldly. -- J.k. Rowling
It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you. -- J.k. Rowling
I suspect Nargles are behind it. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. -- J.k. Rowling
It is your choices who shows what we really are.
Far more than our abilities. -- J.k. Rowling
What's coming will come and we will meet it when it does -- J.k. Rowling
Words, in my humble opinion, are the most inexhaustible source of magic we have. -- J.k. Rowling
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies. -- J.k. Rowling
It's getting worse, Harry muttered, biting off the Frog's head. -- J.k. Rowling
Giggling should be made illegal. -- J.k. Rowling
House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales -- J.k. Rowling
She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly. The -- J.k. Rowling
Wand of elder, never prosper. -- J.k. Rowling
Slave labor," said Hermione, breathing hard through her nose. "That's what made this dinner. Slave labor." And she refused to eat another bite. -- J.k. Rowling
After all, you don't have to be a sword-wielding Gryffindor to be a hero; sometimes, all it takes is having your heart in the right place. We -- J.k. Rowling
Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort! -- J.k. Rowling
We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did. -- J.k. Rowling
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. -- J.k. Rowling
He hadn't seen his father - he had seen himself - -- J.k. Rowling
It was 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. -- J.k. Rowling
My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice." - Newt Scamander -- J.k. Rowling
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius - it's me ... it's Peter ... your friend ... you wouldn't ... "
Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled.
"There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them," said Black. -- J.k. Rowling
Words have power. -- J.k. Rowling
What's life without a few dragons? -- J.k. Rowling
Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin," said Hagrid darkly. "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one. -- J.k. Rowling
Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder. -- J.k. Rowling
Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do? -- J.k. Rowling
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. -- J.k. Rowling
So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left - "
"Don't talk to your mother like that. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must. -- J.k. Rowling
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. -- J.k. Rowling
My wand of yew did everything of -- J.k. Rowling
I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! -- J.k. Rowling
so well coordinated -- J.k. Rowling
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding. -- J.k. Rowling
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. -- J.k. Rowling
Rage is to righteousness as certainty is to wisdom. Constantly mistaken for each other, they're hardly ever in the same room. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?"
"I've used it against him," Harry said quietly. "It saved my life last June. -- J.k. Rowling
These people will never understand him! He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name! -- J.k. Rowling
Always he was on the lookout for the one who would challenge him. He heard the prophecy and he leapt into action, with the result that he not only handpicked the man most likely to finish him, he handed him uniquely deadly weapons! -- J.k. Rowling
Your just as sane as I am -- J.k. Rowling
Moaning Myrtle burst into anguished sobs and fled from the dungeon. Peeves shot after her, pelting her with moldy peanuts, yelling, Pimply! Pimply! -- J.k. Rowling
Hello, Harry. Hello, Draco. Have you been bad boys again? -- J.k. Rowling
The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words.
'Harry... Potter...'
And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see. -- J.k. Rowling
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. -- J.k. Rowling
Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company. -- J.k. Rowling
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. -- J.k. Rowling
There's the silver lining I'm looking for. -- J.k. Rowling
He was supposed to be turning a beetle into a button, but all he managed to do was give his beetle a lot of exercise as it scuttled over the desktop avoiding his wand. -- J.k. Rowling
It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once? -- J.k. Rowling
His own wand trembled in his hand, and he almost welcomed the oncoming oblivion, the promise of nothing, of no feeling. -- J.k. Rowling
He didn't know what he was going to - but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind. -- J.k. Rowling
St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries -- J.k. Rowling
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it. -- J.k. Rowling
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. -- J.k. Rowling
Menagerie. Personally, -- J.k. Rowling
Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban ... -- J.k. Rowling
It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory. -- J.k. Rowling
You all righ'?"
"Yeah,"
"No yeh're not ... 'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be. -- J.k. Rowling
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. -- J.k. Rowling
The ones that love us never really leave us. -- J.k. Rowling
If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter. -- J.k. Rowling
Powerful infatuations can be induced by the skilful potioneer, but never yet has anyone managed to create the truly unbreakable, eternal, unconditional attachment that alone can be called Love -- J.k. Rowling
Because if its just you alone, you're not much of a threat. -- J.k. Rowling
Keep calm and go to the library -- J.k. Rowling
It started with nothing more than a yearning for nicotine and beauty. -- J.k. Rowling
You can't cancel Quidditch! -- J.k. Rowling
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, he's not unbalanced," said Dumbledore quietly. "He's just suffered a severe disappointment. -- J.k. Rowling
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. -- J.k. Rowling
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked. -- J.k. Rowling
The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. -- J.k. Rowling
He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher. -- J.k. Rowling
It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. -- J.k. Rowling
What is life without a little risk?" -Sirius Black -- J.k. Rowling
He did not look at Mrs Weasley. He had been touched by what she had said about his being as good as a son, but he was also impatient with her mollycoddling. Sirius was right, he was not a child. -- J.k. Rowling
The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here. -- J.k. Rowling
I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmead at weekends. -- J.k. Rowling
He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up. -- J.k. Rowling
I've said all along that wizards would pay for how they treat house-elves. Well, Voldemort did ... and so did Sirius. -- J.k. Rowling
Sirius stabbed moodily at a potato -- J.k. Rowling
or else discussing the case of Sirius Black -- J.k. Rowling
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. -- J.k. Rowling
Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry ... -- J.k. Rowling
Cedric looked slightly embarrassed. "Harry fell off his broom, Dad," he muttered. -- J.k. Rowling
When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD. -- J.k. Rowling
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance -- J.k. Rowling
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. -- J.k. Rowling
You're not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted. -- J.k. Rowling
If she could have achieved suicide, simply by willing it, she would have done it without hesitation. -- J.k. Rowling
Fred gave the Extendable Ear a hearty tug; there was another loud crack and he and George vanished. -- J.k. Rowling
Uncle Vernon: What were you doing under our window, boy?
Harry Potter: Listening to the news.
Uncle Vernon: Listening to the news! Again?
Harry: Well, it changes every day, you see. -- J.k. Rowling
What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite? -- J.k. Rowling
Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. -- J.k. Rowling
Do you ever stop eating? -- J.k. Rowling
Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first. -- J.k. Rowling
I thought your friend Ron might like this owl, as it's my fault he no longer has a rat. -- J.k. Rowling
Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds. -- J.k. Rowling
True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits. -- J.k. Rowling
He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, shut up, Weatherby,' said Fred. -- J.k. Rowling
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames. -- J.k. Rowling
I think that I've had a very strange life. -- J.k. Rowling
He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see. -- J.k. Rowling
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. -- J.k. Rowling
I am the freest author in the world. -- J.k. Rowling
The graveyard is full of the names of ancient magical families, and this accounts, no doubt, for the stories of hauntings that have dogged the little church beside it for many centuries.' "You and your parents aren't mentioned, -- J.k. Rowling
We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that? -- J.k. Rowling
Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with thigh-length galoshes; his colleague, a kilt and a poncho. -- J.k. Rowling
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. -- J.k. Rowling
The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice.
Hermione snorted.
Well honestly ... 'the fates have informed her' ... Who sets the exam? She does! -- J.k. Rowling
I scared Stephen King. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes, said Ron, -- J.k. Rowling
It was better than Harry had expected. As for Dumbledore's writing to the Dursleys, that was nothing. Harry knew perfectly well they'd just be disappointed that the Whomping Willow hadn't squashed him flat. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
I've read worse. -- J.k. Rowling
when Winky has been very drunk. He has hidden her in the Room of Requirement and he has found antidotes to butterbeer there, -- J.k. Rowling
Her gorgeousness was a matter of minor adjustments to a pattern, so that a breathtaking harmony resulted. -- J.k. Rowling
He wanted to end it on his terms, that's all. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
HARRY POTTER RESCUE MISSION -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two. -- J.k. Rowling
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness? -- J.k. Rowling
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks. -- J.k. Rowling
Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome. -- J.k. Rowling
Third years are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade on certain weekends. Please give the enclosed permission form to your parent or guardian to sign. A -- J.k. Rowling
It's real for us -- J.k. Rowling
Exactly why Dudley wanted a racing bike was a mystery to Harry, as Dudley was very fat and hated exercise - unless of course it involved punching somebody. Dudley -- J.k. Rowling
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. -- J.k. Rowling
Ginny Weasley seemed very disturbed by Mrs. Norris's fate. According to Ron, she was a great cat lover. -- J.k. Rowling
You all right'?" he said gruffly.
"Yeah," said Harry,
"No yer'he not," said Hagrid. "'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be. -- J.k. Rowling
I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all. -- J.k. Rowling
To hurt is as human as breathe. -- J.k. Rowling
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed. -- J.k. Rowling
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 -- J.k. Rowling
Would he ever have the strength to stop looking? -- J.k. Rowling
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 its brain? -- J.k. Rowling
He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything. -- J.k. Rowling
The sun was coming up: The pure, colorless vastness of the sky stretched over him, indifferent to him and his suffering. -- J.k. Rowling
Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride. -- J.k. Rowling
he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and -- J.k. Rowling
Celebrity is as celebrity does. -- J.k. Rowling
I urge you to speak to Dolores Umbridge, a really delightful woman, who I know will be only too happy to advise you. -- J.k. Rowling
Read as much as you can. Nothing will help you as much as reading. -- J.k. Rowling
Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore -- J.k. Rowling
His temper, always so close to the surface these days, was rising again. -- J.k. Rowling
There's no need to call me 'sir', Professor. -- J.k. Rowling
It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it? -- J.k. Rowling
Oh, come and stir my cauldron,
And if you do it right,
I'll boil you up some hot strong love
To keep you warm tonight. -- J.k. Rowling
DRACO looks up at HARRY, and for the first time- at the bottom of this dreadful pit- they look at each other as friends. -- J.k. Rowling
I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? -- J.k. Rowling
I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Every drop of magical blood spilled is a loss and a waste. -- J.k. Rowling
Always use the proper name of things. Fear of s name increased fear of the thing itself. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. -- J.k. Rowling
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. -- J.k. Rowling
The Malfoys. The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place. -- J.k. Rowling
How about these?" said Ron, shoving a jar of Cockroach Clusters under Hermione's nose. "Definitely not," said Harry. Ron nearly dropped the jar. "Harry!" squealed Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers -- J.k. Rowling
Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. -- J.k. Rowling
Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head! -- J.k. Rowling
Now if you excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing. -- J.k. Rowling
What would happen when he told the Dursleys he was going to live with the convict they'd seen on television? -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort,' said Riddle softly, 'is my past, -- J.k. Rowling
Moonstones and diamonds," said Griphook, who had sidled into the room without Harry noticing. "Made by goblins, I think? -- J.k. Rowling
A beat as Queenie drinks the whole story out of Newt's head. She looks both intrigued and saddened. Newt continues to work, trying hard to pretend Queenie isn't reading his mind. -- J.k. Rowling
Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts? -- J.k. Rowling
Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you? -- J.k. Rowling
Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain. -- J.k. Rowling
Jessica, who loves stories, -- J.k. Rowling
Oliver, calm down!" said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. "We're taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously. -- J.k. Rowling
Her face was a synthesis of perfect symmetry and unusual proportion; he could have gazed at it for hours, trying to locate the source of its fascination. -- J.k. Rowling
Filch, not now - " The aged caretaker had just come hobbling into view, shouting, "Students out of bed! Students in the corridors!" "They're supposed to be, you blithering idiot!" shouted McGonagall. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't know how the Muggles manage without magic, -- J.k. Rowling
George: You see... I'm holy. Holey, Fred, geddit? -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah 'ear 'ear, said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity.
"No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother. -- J.k. Rowling
If there's someone untrustworthy around, it's supposed to light up and spin. Bill says it's rubbish sold for wizard tourists and isn't reliable, because it kept lighting up at dinner last night. But he didn't realize Fred and George had put beetles in his soup. -- J.k. Rowling
The Woes of Mrs Weasley -- J.k. Rowling
I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad. -- J.k. Rowling
To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At -- J.k. Rowling
For without progress there will be stagnation and decay. -- J.k. Rowling
Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy. -- J.k. Rowling
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. -- J.k. Rowling
Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone? -- J.k. Rowling
I don't believe in magic, either. -- J.k. Rowling
Hagrid: You're a wizard, Harry.
Harry: I'm a what? -- J.k. Rowling
Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser if he annoyed me. Used ter make him laugh ... -- J.k. Rowling
Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time -- J.k. Rowling
I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones ... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm on it, Harry, don' worry! Hagrid yelled, and from inside his jacket pocket he pulled his flowery pink umbrella. -- J.k. Rowling
I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit. -- J.k. Rowling
What is life without a little risk? -- J.k. Rowling
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life. -- J.k. Rowling
I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. Harry -- J.k. Rowling
Jiggery pokery!" said Harry in a fierce voice. "Hocus pocus - squiggly wiggly - "
"MUUUUUUM!" howled Dudley, "He's doing you know what! -- J.k. Rowling
I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits. -- J.k. Rowling
With fumbling fingers Harry started to remove his many layers of clothing. Where "chivalry" entered into this, he thought ruefully, he was not entirely sure, unless it counted as chivalrous that he was not calling for Hermione to do it in his stead. -- J.k. Rowling
The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain. -- J.k. Rowling
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. -- J.k. Rowling
I'll eat myself if you can find A smarter hat than me. -- J.k. Rowling
him on each cheek: He felt -- J.k. Rowling
October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. -- J.k. Rowling
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. -- J.k. Rowling
Reminds me, reminds us that though we may come from different places, speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one. -- J.k. Rowling
And she was an idiot. Very nosy, but no brains, none at all. It's not a good combination, -- J.k. Rowling
And you overlook Dumbledore's greatest weakness: He has to believe the best of people. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies? -- J.k. Rowling
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.' An -- J.k. Rowling
I thought we'd seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of the Invisible Book of Invisibility - cost a fortune, and we never found them. . . -- J.k. Rowling
Dear molly,
Watching over Fred like you have been watching over my Harry all these years.
Love,
Lily -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy. -- J.k. Rowling
Flaming Christmas puddings followed the turkey. -- J.k. Rowling
You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid. -- J.k. Rowling
If you need to ask, you'll never know. -- J.k. Rowling
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work ... It would be more useful than divination, anyway ... -- J.k. Rowling
She's an awful woman," said Hermione in a small voice. "Awful. You know, I was just saying to Ron when you came in . . . we've got to do something about her." "I suggested poison," said Ron grimly. -- J.k. Rowling
It's leviOsa, not levioSA! -- J.k. Rowling
Just cast a spell, Dad, and change me into what you want me to be, okay? -- J.k. Rowling
Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board, and we can take you anywhere you want to go. My name is Stan Shunpike, and I will be your conductor this eve - -- J.k. Rowling
I like a quiet life, you know me. -- J.k. Rowling
Daddy, look - one of the gnomes actually bit me! -- J.k. Rowling
It's not possible to live with the Dursleys and not hate them," said Harry. "I'd like to see you try it. -- J.k. Rowling
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX THE FLAW IN THE PLAN -- J.k. Rowling
What do you reckon?" Ron asked the cat. "Definitely an owl?" Crooks hanks purred. "That's good enough for me," said Ron happily. "He's mine. -- J.k. Rowling
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. -- J.k. Rowling
Hogwarts isn't actually that pleasant a place when you don't fit in. -- J.k. Rowling
I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart -- J.k. Rowling
Blimey," said the other twin. "Are you - ?" "He is," said the first twin. "Aren't you?" he added to Harry. "What?" said Harry. "Harry Potter," chorused the twins. "Oh, him," said Harry. "I mean, yes, I am. -- J.k. Rowling
Nothing's impossible if you've got enough nerve. -- J.k. Rowling
No,' said Harry firmly, 'you and Al will share a room only when I want the house demolished.' He -- J.k. Rowling
Second - to Miss Hermione Granger ... for the use of cool logic in the face of fire, I award Gryffindor house fifty points.
Hermione buried her face in her arms; Harry strongly suspected she had burst into tears. -- J.k. Rowling
evil or change that are sometimes marked there. It may take ten years to be sure of what we are seeing.' Firenze pointed to the red star directly above Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Still, it's cool," said Ron, a little defensively. "And from what they said, Dumbledore invented it himself!"
"I know, but surely he wouldn't have singled you out in his will just to help us turn out the lights! -- J.k. Rowling
Aaah, 'at's be'er,' said Ron, with his mouth full of mashed potato. -- J.k. Rowling
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself. -- J.k. Rowling
Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover. -- J.k. Rowling
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. -- J.k. Rowling
It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think. -- J.k. Rowling
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? -- J.k. Rowling
Sporadic howls from the ghoul who lived in the attic. -- J.k. Rowling
That suggests that what you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
The forest hides many secrets. -- J.k. Rowling
I can't give a Professor love! -- J.k. Rowling
we'll be going up to London -- J.k. Rowling
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched ... -- J.k. Rowling
I don't understand your head, Albus. But I do understand your heart- Harry Potter -- J.k. Rowling
Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation. -- J.k. Rowling
I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book. -- J.k. Rowling
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own - "
"That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? -- J.k. Rowling
It's best to know what the enemy are saying. -- J.k. Rowling
Let's see ... ah, yes, this is nice and cozy. It was a broom cupboard. -- J.k. Rowling
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. -- J.k. Rowling
I was just wondering whether Mr. Potter has quite the temperament for an Auror? -- J.k. Rowling
chicken-and-ham pie -- J.k. Rowling
Did it?" said Harry in surprise. "Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle," said Hermione grimly. -- J.k. Rowling
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. -- J.k. Rowling
Where do vanished objects go?"
"Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall.
"Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open. -- J.k. Rowling
He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes! -- J.k. Rowling
the vampire Sanguini, who was tall and emaciated with dark shadows under his eyes, merely nodded. He -- J.k. Rowling
The wand picks you, you don't pick the wand. -- J.k. Rowling
Grindelwald and I, the glorious young leaders of the revolution. -- J.k. Rowling
Drove Voldemort out . . . though Dumbledore, of course, -- J.k. Rowling
Oooh, look, a Blibbering Humdinger! -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean? -- J.k. Rowling
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. -- J.k. Rowling
The truth. It's a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution".
-Albus dumbedore -- J.k. Rowling
IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!" roared Ron's voice. -- J.k. Rowling
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. -- J.k. Rowling
After all this time?"
"Always... -- J.k. Rowling
Giants. They can't all be horrible. . . . It's the same sort of prejudice that people have toward werewolves. . . . It's just bigotry, isn't it? -- J.k. Rowling
your a wizard harry -- J.k. Rowling
He gave everything to everybody. Except to me. -- J.k. Rowling
So I suppose you think that's a reward for breaking rules? -- J.k. Rowling
It is my belief ... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. -- J.k. Rowling
There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't need a cloak to become invisible. -- J.k. Rowling
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place. -- J.k. Rowling
What you write becomes who you are ... So make sure you love what you write! -- J.k. Rowling
Prongs rode again last night ... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night ... You found him inside yourself. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah, Dumbledore's barking, all right, -- J.k. Rowling
Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it. -- J.k. Rowling
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
Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a -- J.k. Rowling
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behavior, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way. -- J.k. Rowling
February by a nasty bout of flu. I myself will lose my voice. And around Easter, one of our number will leave us forever. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, I reckon you should
" Ron began, but he was interrupted by the Fat Lady, who had been watching them sleepily and now burst out, "Are you going to give me the password or will I have to say awake all night waiting for you to finish your conversation? -- J.k. Rowling
It's not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog. -- J.k. Rowling
This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen, -- J.k. Rowling
A good thrashing is what's needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often? -- J.k. Rowling
How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books? -- J.k. Rowling
Animal magnetism," said Ron gloomily, pulling -- J.k. Rowling
It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us! -- J.k. Rowling
I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. -- J.k. Rowling
He liked to complain about things: people at work, Harry, the council, Harry, the bank, and Harry were just a few of his favorite subjects. -- J.k. Rowling
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. -- J.k. Rowling
It's never too early to think about the future, so I'd recommend Divination. -- J.k. Rowling
The inner eye does not see upon command. -- J.k. Rowling
being speared on the end of an umbrella by a bearded giant, -- J.k. Rowling
My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix -- J.k. Rowling
Have you seen my grandson?" "He's fighting," said Harry. "Naturally," said the old lady proudly. "Excuse me, I must go and assist him. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him. -- J.k. Rowling
I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF! -- J.k. Rowling
Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart! -- J.k. Rowling
Club motto: "Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads." Holyhead -- J.k. Rowling
My philosophy is worrying means you suffer twice. -- J.k. Rowling
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -- J.k. Rowling
Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son. -- J.k. Rowling
Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren't young at all; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak! -- J.k. Rowling
Beauty is geometry. -- J.k. Rowling
Well - I was lucky once, wasn't I?" said Harry, pointing at his scar. "I might get lucky again. -- J.k. Rowling
Have a biscuit, Potter. -- J.k. Rowling
Not going. . . . I don't need the hospital wing. . . . I don't want . . . -- J.k. Rowling
use the boy. use the boy. -- J.k. Rowling
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead. -- J.k. Rowling
Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in? -- J.k. Rowling
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. -- J.k. Rowling
Madame Maxime was with him, we've been in touch with her and she says they got separated -- J.k. Rowling
I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag." -- J.k. Rowling
You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. -- J.k. Rowling
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? -- J.k. Rowling
I wonder, now - yes, why not - unusual combination - holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple. -- J.k. Rowling
Ultimately, she had a bigger heart than she had a brain, and that's saying something for Hermione. -- J.k. Rowling
Sacars can come in handy -- J.k. Rowling
Harry resumed the patting of his elbow, saying as he did so (for the potion seemed to indicate that it was the right thing to do), -- J.k. Rowling
But know this; the ones who love us never really leave us. -- J.k. Rowling
It does not do to dwell on dreams and -- J.k. Rowling
Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermy-own-ninny. -- J.k. Rowling
The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal. -- J.k. Rowling
The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions. -- J.k. Rowling
The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.' GINNY looks at him, surprised. Dumbledore. -- J.k. Rowling
Oh yes!" said Dumbledore. "Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry. -- J.k. Rowling
Gifts to benefit the poor ... are charitable, and a gift for the poor is charitable even if it happens incidentally to benefit the rich -- J.k. Rowling
How thick can you get? -- J.k. Rowling
So ... you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up mate, or all the good ones will be gone," said Fred. -- J.k. Rowling
The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister. -- J.k. Rowling
that power gives us the right to rule, -- J.k. Rowling
Harry had to fight down a laugh. -- J.k. Rowling
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it. -- J.k. Rowling
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. -- J.k. Rowling
It's important to remember we all have magic inside us. -- J.k. Rowling
Masons will be here soon!" snapped Aunt Petunia, -- J.k. Rowling
When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear ... -Albus Dumbledore -- J.k. Rowling
I've got plenty of money, more money than I ever dreamed I would have. But I am not a billionaire. -- J.k. Rowling
What do they think they're doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?" said Ron finally. "If any dog needs exercise, that one does. -- J.k. Rowling
Well, it is a bit long, dear," said Mrs. Weasley gently. -- J.k. Rowling
Mr Weasley gave a maniacal laugh; Mrs Weasley threw him a look, upon which he became immediately silent and assumed an expression appropriate to the sickbed of a close friend. -- J.k. Rowling
Her arm curved to the floor, her fingers inches from Ron's. Harry wondered whether they had fallen asleep holding hands. The idea made him feel strangely lonely. -- J.k. Rowling
Black is carrying a gun (a kind of metal wand which Muggles use to kill each other), -- J.k. Rowling
All those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, computers, and radar, and all those things - they all go haywire around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air. -- J.k. Rowling
Ron agreed, with the sole proviso that their next move took them within reach of a bacon sandwich. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't be stupid, it's a flying house! -- J.k. Rowling
Harry didn't know which was worse - people telling him he'd be brilliant or people telling him they'd be running around underneath him holding a mattress. -- J.k. Rowling
what's life without a little risk -- J.k. Rowling
Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that. -- J.k. Rowling
Luck can only get you so far. -- J.k. Rowling
... and you're kind, Scorpius. To the depths of your belly, to the tips of your fingers. -- J.k. Rowling
And Death spoke to them - '" "Sorry," interjected Harry, "but Death spoke to them?" "It's a fairy tale, Harry!" "Right, sorry. Go on. -- J.k. Rowling
I don't think I am evangelical in my work. -- J.k. Rowling
Ahh music...a magic far beyond anything done here -- J.k. Rowling
Your favorite stories will be in your heart forever -- J.k. Rowling
We're not supposed to do werewolves yet, we're due to start hinkypunks -- J.k. Rowling
She pressed the plunger down hard, in hope and without regret ... Krystal Weedon had achieved her only ambition: she had joined her brother where nobody could part them. -- J.k. Rowling
Get up, you useless lump, get up! -- J.k. Rowling
It unscrews the other way. -- J.k. Rowling
Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty. -- J.k. Rowling
One day," said Hermione, sounding thoroughly exasperated, "you'll read Hogwarts: A History, and perhaps that will remind you that you can't Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts. -- J.k. Rowling
But there was still no preparation for seeing him here, spread-eagled, broken: the greatest wizard Harry had ever, or would ever, meet. -- J.k. Rowling
I always felt an outsider. -- J.k. Rowling
She seemed to be trying to take in what Kay had said to her: this bizarre, dangerous advice about telling the truth -- J.k. Rowling
All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron. -- J.k. Rowling
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. -- J.k. Rowling
Shirley took the view that the past disintegrated if you never mentioned it. -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger. -- J.k. Rowling
I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I -- J.k. Rowling
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else. -- J.k. Rowling
Scars can come in handy. -- J.k. Rowling
Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub! -- J.k. Rowling
Scarcely a year previously, his father, Percival, had been convicted of a savage and well-publicized attack upon three young Muggles. -- J.k. Rowling
I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him. -- J.k. Rowling
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives. -- J.k. Rowling
Authority figures always attract trouble -- J.k. Rowling
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off! -- J.k. Rowling
But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality. -- J.k. Rowling
They can carry immensely heavy loads, their tears have healing powers, and they make highly faithful pets. -- J.k. Rowling
Do it today or later you'll pay! -- J.k. Rowling
Don't let the Muggles get you down! Try and come to London, -- J.k. Rowling
This boy will be famous. There won't be a child in our world who doesn't know his name. -- J.k. Rowling
only our choices show who we really are -- J.k. Rowling
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name. -- J.k. Rowling
Yeah," said Ron, "and lucky Harry doesn't lose his head in a crisis - 'there's no wood,' honestly. -- J.k. Rowling
He fears the dead. He does not love. -- J.k. Rowling
Sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! -- J.k. Rowling
Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life? -- J.k. Rowling
THE LETTERS FROM NO ONE T -- J.k. Rowling
His lovely shiny new prefect's badge. -- J.k. Rowling
Uncle Vernon cleared his throat importantly and said, "Now, as we all know, today is a very important day." Harry looked up, hardly daring to believe it. -- J.k. Rowling
STUDENTS OUT OF BED! STUDENTS OUT OF BED IN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR! -- J.k. Rowling
My brother Albus wanted a lot of -- J.k. Rowling
Jacob: Newt . . . I don't think I'm dreaming.
Newt: What gave it away?
Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up. -- J.k. Rowling
What on earth is more important than this memory, Harry? -- J.k. Rowling
I hope there's pudding! -- J.k. Rowling
So you're telling me that the whole of history rests on . . . Neville Longbottom? This is pretty wild. -- J.k. Rowling
A whole society in 7 books. Absolutely fabulous from the inside and outside. -- J.k. Rowling
My brain surprises even me sometimes. -- J.k. Rowling
Thought you wouldn't open a book before coming, eh, Potter?" Harry -- J.k. Rowling
It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. -- J.k. Rowling
You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon... -- J.k. Rowling
I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do. -- J.k. Rowling
Voldemort come back' (again, there was a collective shudder around the table at the name) -- J.k. Rowling
matched that between -- J.k. Rowling
I open at the close. -- J.k. Rowling
His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. -- J.k. Rowling
he tried to explain that he couldn't explain -- J.k. Rowling
Not all who wonders are lost. -- J.k. Rowling
I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry, "Because I'd already done it ... does that make sense? -- J.k. Rowling
Pretend you want to do something else and write on the sly until you're free to do whatever you want! -- J.k. Rowling
There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated. -- J.k. Rowling
We seize control FOR THE GREATER GOOD. -- J.k. Rowling
Arithmancy looks -- J.k. Rowling
Hermione threw herself down into a chair with her arms and legs crossed so tightly it seemed unlikely that she would unravel them for several years. -- J.k. Rowling
You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God. -- J.k. Rowling
Harry couldn't blame them. -- J.k. Rowling
our family's house. -- J.k. Rowling
GET OFF, YOU STUPID ANIMAL! -- J.k. Rowling
There will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -- J.k. Rowling
from his current place of safety on -- J.k. Rowling
Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you. -- J.k. Rowling
This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty. -- J.k. Rowling
You shouldn't have done that. -- J.k. Rowling
Your great puddin' of a son don' need fattin' anymore Dursley, don't worry -- J.k. Rowling
Protecting the precious flower of their innocence. -- J.k. Rowling
I am about to die. -- J.k. Rowling
Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. -- J.k. Rowling
Of course you've got to! -- J.k. Rowling
It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. -- J.k. Rowling
You have a streak of pride and independence that might have ruined all. -- J.k. Rowling
I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. -- J.k. Rowling
Lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it. -- J.k. Rowling
How do you want to be remembered?
~As someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. -- J.k. Rowling
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with. -- J.k. Rowling
You're not a bad person. You're a very good person. Who bad things have happened to. -- J.k. Rowling
Would it hurt to die? -- J.k. Rowling
Death was impatient. . . . -- J.k. Rowling
For a few glorious moments, all his problems seemed to recede into nothing, insignificant in the vast, starry sky. -- J.k. Rowling
I am a writer, and I will write what I want to write. -- J.k. Rowling
An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye, glistened from a golden chain around his neck. -- J.k. Rowling
They collected balls -- J.k. Rowling
I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. -- J.k. Rowling
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. -- J.k. Rowling
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. -- J.k. Rowling
He was born with a weakness he didn't know about. -- J.k. Rowling
I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values. -- J.k. Rowling
Time is making fools of us again. -- J.k. Rowling
It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course. -- J.k. Rowling
win the tournament, Harry knows that, don't -- J.k. Rowling
spasm of horror, which -- J.k. Rowling
The dead lay in a row in the middle of the hall. -- J.k. Rowling
. rip . . . tear . . . kill -- J.k. Rowling
Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.'
'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay. -- J.k. Rowling
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. -- J.k. Rowling
Don't let the muggles get you down. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm a very distracted person. -- J.k. Rowling
Charm Your Own Cheese, -- J.k. Rowling
Madame Maxime entered -- J.k. Rowling
Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment. -- J.k. Rowling
Always say the proper name for everything-
Fear of the name increase fear of the thing itself. -- J.k. Rowling
You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good. -- J.k. Rowling
That Vanishing Cabinet was extremely valuable! -- J.k. Rowling
The more you care, the more you have to lose. -- J.k. Rowling
Those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, computers, and radar, and all those things - -- J.k. Rowling
turn to page 394." He -- J.k. Rowling
That," said Harry, "is a really good question. -- J.k. Rowling
he had had a family. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not a freak. That'strong>sstrong> a horrible thing to strong>sstrong>ay."
"That'strong>sstrong> where you're going. A strong>sstrong>pecial strong>sstrong>chool for freakstrong>sstrong>. You and that Snape boy ... weirdostrong>sstrong>, that'strong>sstrong> what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it wastrong>sstrong> strong>sstrong>uch a freak'strong>sstrong> strong>sstrong>chool when you wrote the headmastrong>sstrong>ter and begged him to take you. -- J.k. Rowling
When in doubt, go to the library. -- J.k. Rowling
I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say." br>"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... " br>"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you. -- J.k. Rowling
Let me out," Harry said again.br>"No," Dumbledore repeated.br>"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"br>"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many. -- J.k. Rowling