1,714 Quotes by J.K. Rowling

I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks.

You should have realised," said Lupin quietly. If Voldemort didn't kill you, we would. Goodbye, Peter.

Remus Lupin: I am not being ridiculous. Tonks deserves somebody young and whole.Mr. Weasley: But she wants you. And after all, Remus, young and whole men do not necessarily remain so

Voilà qui voudrait dire que ce dont vous avez le plus peur, c’est… la peur elle-même. C’est la preuve d’une grande sagesse, Harry.

He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here...

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .

Hippogriffs!" Hagrid roared happily, waving a hand at them. "Beau'iful, aren' they?"Harry could sort of see what Hagrid meant. Once you got over the first shock of seeing something that was half horse, half bird, you started to appreciate the hippogriffs' gleaming coats, changing smoothly from feather to feather, each of them a different color: stormy gray, bronze, pinkish roan, gleaming chestnut, and inky black.

How long have you been ‘Big D’ then?” said Harry.“Shut it,” snarled Dudley, turning away again.“Cool name,” said Harry, grinning and falling into step beside his cousin. “But you’ll always be Ickle Diddykins to me.”“I said, SHUT IT!” said Dudley, whose ham-like hands had curled into fists.“Don’t the boys know that’s what your mum calls you?”“Shut your face.”“You don’t tell her to shut her face. What about ‘popkin’ and ‘Dinky Diddydums,’ can I use them then?