What do we want? Harry Potter! When do we want it? Forever and always! In which form can we keep the Wizarding World lore alive? Why, by dedicating a post to the greatest, the wisest, and the funniest Harry Potter quotes! Oh yes, there isn’t a place in time where we don’t like Harry Potter stuff anymore, and the brilliant quotes from these books are withstanding the test of time to stay forever relevant. And forever cherished!
Now, our Boy Who Lived isn’t the only one that takes the stage by delivering quotable material - you will definitely find some quirky quotes from Albus Dumbledore here, some lovely quotes from Hermione Granger, and, of course, funny quotes from Ron Weasley. Harry himself also has his chance to shine bright in our list because how could we call this list a thorough compendium without his thoughts! And really, although all of them are fictional characters, the words put into them are often brighter than the stuff some very real people say. These beautiful quotes will tell you about life, love, friendship, and all the things that really matter.
It’s probably time for you to skip to the good part, right? Well then, our selection of the best Harry Potter quotes is further down by Buckbeak’s tail hair! But be warned - these aren’t safe for the work environment, as you might lose a good hour by reliving the first time you read these magical words. So, proceed with caution, but don’t forget to vote for the Harry Potter quotes you liked the most!
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“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.'”
“Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.” — Dobby
rip Dobby, may he get all the socks and he ever wants
“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
My old boss used to say 'Treat a king like a pauper & a pauper like a king. Both will earn you respect."
Molly Weasley: “Your sons flew that car to Harry’s house and back last night! What have you got to say about that, eh?”
Arthur Weasley: “Did you really? Did it go all right?”
Arthur is the dad we all , Molly is the mother we are scared of but also respect the heck out of
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” – Albus Dumbledore
“You’re saying it wrong. It’s leviOsa, not levioSA.” — Hermione Granger
"He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo." — Fred Weasley
God, that book was so sad - I physically cried and I never did that with books, movies, etc back then. But this page had me laughing my butt off.
"Yer a wizard Harry." — Rubeus Hagrid
"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have." ― Hermione Granger
“‘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.’”
hm yes, totally famous Ronald, much famous, much stardom
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – Albus Dumbledore
“Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” — Albus Dumbledore
“Here lies Dobby, a free elf.” — Written on Dobby’s gravestone
Harry: “I didn’t want anyone to talk to me.”
Ginny: “Well, that was a bit stupid of you, seeing as you don’t know anyone but me who’s been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels.”
In the books Ginny was a badass. In the movies... We don't talk about the movies.
Dumbledore: “You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.”
Harry: “I didn’t want —”
Dumbledore: “— to worry or frighten them? Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry.”
“Dobby never meant to kill! Dobby only meant to maim, or seriously injure!” —Dobby
When your sibling cries when you hit them and you hear mom coming
“When in doubt, go to the library.” – Ron Weasley
“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.” — Albus Dumbledore
“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
Lord Voldemort: “Nothing I have seen in the world has supported your pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.”
Albus Dumbledore: “Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.”
“Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question… One: he’s sitting on my chair. Two: he’s wearing my clothes. Three: his name’s Remus Lupin.” — Remus Lupin
“‘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.’” – Ginny Weasley
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” — Luna Lovegood
“It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.” — Remus Lupin
“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both influencing injury, and remedying it.” — Albus Dumbledore
“We must unite inside / Or we’ll crumble from within / I have told you, I have warned you… / Let the Sorting now begin.” — The Sorting Hat
“I never really gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped…” — Ginny Weasley
“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery.” – Hermione Granger
“The ones that love us never really leave us. You can always find them in here.” – Sirius Black
"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." — Hermione Granger
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world." — Ron Weasley
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." — Albus Dumbledore
"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young." — Albus Dumbledore
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" — Albus Dumbledore
“’Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic beyond all we do here!'” — Albus Dumbledore
“Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.” — Luna Lovegood
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” — Albus Dumbledore
“‘No, Harry, you listen,’ said Hermione. ‘We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really.'”
“Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.”
“’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.’”
I wish we saw more of Harry's sass in the movies, he was such a little bundle of salt and no self preservation
Hermione: “Harry, don’t go picking a row with Malfoy, don’t forget, he’s a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you.”
Harry: “Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?”
“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love”. – Horace Slughorn
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – Albus Dumbledore
“Don’t let the Muggles get you down.” — Ron Weasley
still mad Dumbledoor made Harry live with abusive asshats, i dont care about the magic or whatever, im sure James had some distant relatives that could have taken him in if Sirius couldnt
“There’s no need to call me ‘sir,’ Professor.” – Harry Potter
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” – Albus Dumbledore
“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!” – Albus Dumbledore
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. 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 that are worst for them.” – Albus Dumbledore
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” – Albus Dumbledore
“Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.” – Albus Dumbledore
“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.” – Albus Dumbledore
"I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I’m not there." — Harry Potter
When family comes over, and i dont want to deal with them:
"Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!" — Hermione Granger
“You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” — Albus Dumbledore
“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.” — Severus Snape
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” — Hermione Granger
“’So it all comes down to this, doesn’t it?’ whispered Harry. ‘Does the wand in your hand know its last master was Disarmed? Because if it does... I am the true master of the Elder Wand.’”
“’That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,’ said Harry. ‘And quite honestly,’ he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, ‘I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.’”
“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” — Albus Dumbledore
“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.” – Albus Dumbledore
“I cared more for 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.” – Albus Dumbledore
“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.'” – Rubeus Hagrid
“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” – J.K. Rowling
Makes sense. My appointment with the dentist is approaching :l
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” – Albus Dumbledore
I don't agree with that one. Sometimes emotional distance helps to get used to the new situation until time blunts the edges and you have a new place from which to deal with the mess.
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” — Arthur Weasley
“No good sittin’ worryin’ abou’ it. What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.” — Rubeus Hagrid
“Sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.” – Albus Dumbledore
“We’ve been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making things. We thought they just liked the noise.” – Ginny Weasley
“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... But you cannot deny he’s got style... ” – Phineas Nigellus
“It unscrews the other way.” – Minerva McGonagall
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
"Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes." — Albus Dumbledore
"Why, dear boy, we don’t send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts." — Cornelius Fudge
"Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go." — Voldemort
"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
“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” — Albus Dumbledore
“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.” — Albus Dumbledore
“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.” — Albus Dumbledore
“’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.’”
“And what if we want to stay and fight?” — Ernie Macmillan
“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
“Ah, of course. There is no need to say any more, Miss Granger. Tell me, which of you will be dying this year?” – Minerva McGonagall
“We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter’s the one,
And Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!” – Peeves
“You haven’t got a letter on yours. 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
Rita: “Congratulations, Harry! I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How you feel now, about the fairness of the scoring?”
Harry: “Yeah, you can have a word. Good-bye.” – Rita Skeeter and Harry Potter
“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?” – Albus Dumbledore
"Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that." — Gilderoy Lockhart
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." ― Harry Potter
"I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?" — Fred Weasley
“’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.”
“’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.”
“Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?” — Harry Potter
“‘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.'”
“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!” — Harry Potter
“’You should write a book,’ Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, ‘translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.’”
“’Ron,’ said Hermione in a dignified voice, ‘you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.’”
“Well, honestly... ‘The fates have informed her’... Who sets the exam? She does! What an amazing prediction!” – Hermione Granger
“Well, that’s a good sign, I never feel you perform as well in exams if you’re not a bit nervous.” – Hermione Granger
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.” — Horace Slughorn
“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!” – Fleur Delacour
“There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don’t expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, 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. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!” — Professor Severus Snape
Rita Skeeter: “Congratulations, Harry! I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How you feel now, about the fairness of the scoring?”
Harry: “Yeah, you can have a word. Good-bye.”
