My favourite quotes from the Harry Potter books
This is a collection of my personal favourite quotes from Harry Potter, presented in order by book. They’re mostly all Albus Dumbledore, I’ve noticed. Feel free to share yours with me.
”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!” -Professor McGonagall, Order of the Phoenix.
”Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.” - Albus Dumbledore, Philosopher’s Stone.
”Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” -Albus Dumbledore, Philosopher’s Stone.
”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.” -Albus Dumbledore, Philosopher’s Stone.
”It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” -Albus Dumbledore, Philosopher’s Stone.
”Which goes to show that the best of us sometimes eat our words.” -Albus Dumbledore, Philosopher’s Stone.
”Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?” - Fred Weasley, Philosopher’s Stone.
”I suppose she thinks you don’t forget your name. But we’re not stupid — we know we’re called Gred and Forge.” -George Weasley, Philosopher’s Stone.
”It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” -Albus Dumbledore, Philosopher’s Stone.
”It is our choices, Harry, that makes us who we are, far more than our abilities.”-Albus Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets.
”Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” -Arthur Weasley, Chamber of Secrets.
”I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” -Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”We tried to shut him up in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.”- George Weasley, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.” -George Weasley (The Marauder’s Map), Prisoner of Azkaban.
”Just tap it again and say, ‘Mischief managed!’ And it’ll go blank.” -George Weasley, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”Yeah, we’ll call you, if we ever need someone mental.” -Ron Weasley, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”I’m not delicate!” -Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?” -Albus Dumbledore, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”Oh he’s not unbalanced. He’s just suffered a severe disappointment.” -Albus Dumbledore, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night. You found him inside yourself.” -Albus Dumbledore, Prisoner of Azkaban.
”Now, Mum. If the Hogwarts Express crashed tomorrow, and George and I died, how would you feel to know that the last thing we ever heard from you was an unfounded accusation?” -Fred Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”Fine. Go naked. And, Harry, make you sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.” -Molly Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”Why is everything I own rubbish?” -Ron Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”Dumbledore’s not what you’d call normal, though, is he? I mean, I know he’s a genius and everything…” -Ron Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”Ah think of the possibilities. It would’ve been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier and make it look like an accident…Shame his mother likes him…” -Ron Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”I am not joking, Mr. Weasley, though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar…” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”Anyway, where’s the fun without a bit of risk?” -Fred Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”Just because they’re not very pretty, it doesn’t mean they’re not useful.” -Hermione Granger, Goblet of Fire.
”Brilliant! It’s Potions last thing on Friday! Snape won’t have time to poison us all!” -Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire.
”Yeah, well, yeh get weirdos in every breed.” -Rubeus Hagrid, Goblet of Fire.
”I’ve told you before, Ron, keep your nose out of it if you like the shape it is. Can’t see why you would, but—” -Fred Weasley, Goblet of Fire.
”Well, times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.” -Sirius Black, Goblet of Fire.
”I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”Curiosity is not a sin. But we must exercise caution with out curiosity…” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”You must act as you see fit. And I— I shall act as I see fit.” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” -Sirius Black, Goblet of Fire.
”You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be.”- Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”You know my goal…to conquer death.” -Lord Voldemort, Goblet of Fire.
”It is my belief…that the truth is generally preferable to lies.” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” -Albus Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire.
”Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” -Luna Lovegood, Order of the Phoenix.
”You’re just as sane as I am.” -Luna Lovegood, Order of the Phoenix.
”Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else.” -Madam Pomfrey, Order of the Phoenix.
”No, 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.” -Luna Lovegood, Order of the Phoenix.
”Young people are so infernally convinced that they are right about everything.” -Phineas Nigellus, Order of the Phoenix.
”Well, as everyone thinks I’m a mass murderer and the Ministry’s put a ten-thousand-galleon price on my head, I can hardly stroll up the street handing out leaflets, can I?” -Sirius Black, Order of the Phoenix.
”But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog Cards.” -Bill Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”Size is no guarantee of power.” -George Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”There is a time for speech making, but this is not it. Tuck in!” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”Fools who wear their hears on their sleeves, who cannot control they emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words — they stand no chance against his powers!” -Severus Snape, Order of the Phoenix.
”Give her hell from us, Peeves.” -Fred Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”’Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy? You need to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain — to enjoy it— righteous anger won’t hurt me for long — I’ll show you how it is done, shall I? I’ll give you a lesson.” -Bellatrix Lestrange, Order of the Phoenix.
”In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your hear that saved you.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” -Sirius Black, Order of the Phoenix.
”Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end.” -Luna Lovegood, Order of the Phoenix.
”What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?” -George Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”The world isn’t split into good people and death eaters.” -Sirius Black, Order of the Phoenix.
”But we feel our futures lie outside of the world of academic achievement.” -Fred Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies, Hermione.” -Fred Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”Poisonous toadstools don’t change their spots.” -Ron Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”Have a biscuit, Potter.” -Professor McGonagall, Order of the Phoenix.
”Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?” -Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix.
”Only Muggles talk of ‘Mind Reading’. The mind is not a book, to be opened and examined at will and leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.” -Severus Snape, Order of the Phoenix.
”And if we can’t trust Dumbledore, we can’t trust anyone.” -Hermione Granger, Order of the Phoenix.
”It’s like losing a knut and finding a galleon, isn’t it?” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen.” -Sirius Black, Order of the Phoenix.
”E for ‘Exceeds Expectations’. And I’ve always thought Fred and I should’ve got E in everything, because we exceed expectations just by turning up for exams.” -George Weasley, Order of the Phoenix.
”Yeah, Quirell was a great teacher, there was just that minor drawback or him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head.” -Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix.
”Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been you greatest weakness.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry. On the contrary, the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strangth.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”I trust Severus Snape.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” -Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix.
”Time is making fool of us again.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”And you overlook Dumbledore’s greatest weakness: He has to believe the best of people.” -Severus Snape, Half-Blood Prince.
”Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forget others for being wrong than for being right.” -Hermione Granger, Half-Blood Prince.
”Well, we find we appreciate you more and more, Mum, now we’re washing our own socks.” -George Weasley, Half-Blood Prince.
”I like a quite life, you know me.” -Harry Potter, Half-Blood Prince.
”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.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”Age is a foolish and forgetful thing when it underestimates youth.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”There is nothing to be feared of a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared of the darkness.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”I’ll be fine, I’ll be with Dumbledore.” -Harry Potter, Half-Blood Prince.
”I am not worried, Harry. I am with you.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him.” -Harry Potter, Half-Blood Prince.
”Jokes? No, no, these are manners.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”We must to try to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death or darkness, nothing more.” -Albus Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
”Not my daughter, you bitch!” -Molly Weasley, Deathly Hallows.
”Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?” -Albus Dumbledore, Deathly Hallows.
All was well.
(This is a work in progress, and I will always keep finding more favorite quotes, so don’t limit or judge my list. It will grow with time, as I read the books more and more.)
I'm Dalina. I'm Puerto Rican, I talk like an American, and write like a European. I'm a misanthrope and a humanitarian and I also really enjoy contradictions. I'm 90% satire, and 30% fake statistics. I like music, writing, acting, and dressing up. I can't live without Diet Coke, rainy days, or striped socks. My goal is to reblog every scene of every Harry Potter in gif form. I have no idea how that's going. I don't feel the need to list the things I like here, because that's what my blog is for.
