“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
— J.K. Rowling
“If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”
— J.K. Rowling
“I—I didn’t think—””That,” said Professor McGonagall, “is obvious.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations.” said Hermione. “Don’t pretend you didn’t see him. He wasn’t exactly hiding it, was — ?”The door behind them burst open. To Harry’s horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand. “Oh,” he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione.“Oops!” said Lavender, and she backed out of the room, giggling.There was a horrible, swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her. She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had hap”
— J.K. Rowling
“Scrimgeour: “It’s time you learned some respect!” Harry: “It’s time you earned it.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Not my daughter, you bitch!”
— J.K. Rowling
“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Working hard is important, but there’s something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students. If they can do it, why not us?”
— 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
“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
“His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.”
— J.K. Rowling
“If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Hedwig didn’t return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy’s letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry’s and Ron’s were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione’s, however, was smaller than a chicken’s egg. Her face fell when she saw it.”Your mum doesn’t read Witch’s Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?” she asked quietly.”Yeah,” said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. “Gets it for the recipes.”Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.”
— 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours’ time by Mrs. Dursley’s scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley…He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter – the boy who lived!”
— J.K. Rowling
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!Ron: Hermione, no! He’s no worth it.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Hagrid: Harry — yer a wizard.Harry: I’m a what?”
— J.K. Rowling
“Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!”
— 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
“What an idiot.”
— J.K. Rowling
“The fireworks continued to burn and spread all over the school that afternoon. Though they caused plenty of disruption, the other teachers did not seem to mind them very much.”Dear, dear,” said Professor McGonagall sardonically, as one of the dragons soared around her classroom, emitting loud bangs and exhaling flame. “Miss Brown, would you mind running along to the headmistress and informing her that we have an escaped firework in our classroom?””Thank you so much, Professor!” said Professor Flitwick in his squeaky little voice. “I could have got rid of the sparklers myself, of course, but I wasn’t sure whether I had the authority…”Beaming, he closed the classroom door in Umbridge’s snarling face.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Why are you worrying about you-know-who?You should be worrying about u-no-poo!The constipation sensation that’s gripping the nation!”
— J.K. Rowling
“The wand picks you, you don’t pick the wand.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Don’t let it worry you,” said Ron. “It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”
— 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