J.K. Rowling Quotes (394 Quotes)

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.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

Just one more Master Harry-for good luck?

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

We'll all keep fighting, you know that right, Harry?

Enjoying it? I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They'll be announcing their engagement any day now.

Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again.

Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll find you.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

I take my hat off to you-or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you with spiders.

Refutable Hangman -- Spell it or he'll swing!

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

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.

Listen Harry, your'e not a BAD person. Your'e a very good person, that, bad things happen to.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

You may not like it minister, but you can't deny it: Dumbledore's got style.

He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes! - Hermione Granger

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

Ah, music! A magic far beyond all we do here!

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Obviously fame isn't everything. Is it, Mr. Potter? --Severus Snape

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.

Jiggery pokery, hocus pocus, squiggly wiggly

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.

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.

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

Knowledge beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

Next time there's a ball, pluck up the courage and ask me before somebody else does, and not as a last resort!

What's coming will come, and we'll meet it when it does.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

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

Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let's go.

He knows how to play. Itty-bitty-baby-Potter.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

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

There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them said Black

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

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.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

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.