1,714 Quotes by J.K. Rowling

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain:She's Ron's sister.But she's ditched Dean!She's still Ron's sister.I'm his best mate!That'll make it worse.If I talked to him first-He'd hit you.What if I don't care?He's your best mate!

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.'No offence, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic.

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...

Andrew returned to his contemplation of the dirty window with an ache in his heart and in his balls.

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...