1,714 Quotes by J.K. Rowling

It'll be a lot less hassle if you can just knock Malfoy off his broom tomorrow.

Poisonous toadstools don't change their spots.

Extra lessons with Snape?" said Ron, sounding aghast. "I'd rather have the nightmares!

Look at this," said Ron, pulling a long thin box out of a bag and opening it. "Brand-new wand. Fourteen inches, willow, containing one unicorn tail-hair.

It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think.

I feel like a house-elf," grumbled Ron [general cleaning of Black's house]"Well, now that you understand what dreadful lives they lead, perhaps you'll be a bit more active in S.P.E.W!"..."You know, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to show people exactly how horrible it is to clean all the time -- we could do a sponsored scrub of Gryffindor common room, all proceeds to S.P.E.W, it would raise awareness as well as funds --""I'll sponsor you to shut up about spew," Ron muttered irritably.

How would it be," she asked them coldly as they left the classroom [Prof Binns, History subject], "if I refused to lend you my notes this year?""We'd fail our O.W.L.s," said Ron. "If you want that on your conscience, Hermoine...""Well, you'd deserve it," she snapped. "You don't even try to listen to him, do you?""We do try," said Ron. "We just haven't got your brains or your concentration -- you're just cleverer than we are -- is it nice to rub it in?

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)

I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.