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Famous Hogwarts Quotes

Harry Potter is awesome. — Ed Sheeran

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. — J. K. Rowling

The wand chooses the wizard. — J. K. Rowling

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. — J. K. Rowling

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! — J. K. Rowling

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! — J. K. Rowling

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil. — J. K. Rowling

Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room. — J. K. Rowling

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. — J. K. Rowling

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum. — J. K. Rowling

If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure. — J. K. Rowling

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me. — Daniel Radcliffe

Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods! - J. K. Rowling

Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods! — J. K. Rowling

Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. - J. K. Rowling

Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. — J. K. Rowling

The dementors send their love, Potter! — J. K. Rowling

Short Hogwarts Quotes

  • We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat! — J. K. Rowling
  • Don't let the muggles get you down. — J. K. Rowling
  • You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. — J. K. Rowling
  • I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance. — Darynda Jones
  • Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him! — J. K. Rowling
  • Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. — J. K. Rowling
  • When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts. — Sara Paxton
  • What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider — Anthony Horowitz
  • The only thing better than living on a Mac is living in Hogwarts. — Bing Gordon

Hogwarts Image Quotes

Harry Potter Quotes

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling

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. — J. K. Rowling

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. - J. K. Rowling

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. — J. K. Rowling

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! - J. K. Rowling

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! — J. K. Rowling

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. — J. K. Rowling

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends! - J. K. Rowling

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends! — J. K. Rowling

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

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. — J. K. Rowling

You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days. — J. K. Rowling

What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does. — J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter Book Quotes

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — J. K. Rowling

I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders. — Rupert Grint

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. — Gary Ross

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. — J. K. Rowling

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling

Do not pity the dead, Harry. — J. K. Rowling

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. — J. K. Rowling

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. — David Sedaris

I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can. — Judy Blume

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name. — J. K. Rowling

Magic Harry Potter Quotes

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. — J. K. Rowling

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — J. K. Rowling

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — J. K. Rowling

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. — J. K. Rowling

To Harry Potter — the boy who lived! — J. K. Rowling

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. — J. K. Rowling

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. — J. K. Rowling

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before. — Rupert Grint

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. — J. K. Rowling

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. — J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter Series Quotes

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? - J. K. Rowling

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? — J. K. Rowling

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey? — J. K. Rowling

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself. — Daniel Radcliffe

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that. — Jhene Aiko

The stories we love best do live in us forever. — J. K. Rowling

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. — J. K. Rowling

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. — J. K. Rowling

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. — J. K. Rowling

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. — J. K. Rowling

Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. — Armond White

Memorable Harry Potter Quotes

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. — J. K. Rowling

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. — J. K. Rowling

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies? — J. K. Rowling

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. — J. K. Rowling

The ones that love us never really leave us. — J. K. Rowling

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun! — J. K. Rowling

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? — J. K. Rowling

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. — J. K. Rowling

You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style. — J. K. Rowling

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. — J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter Movie Quotes

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? — J. K. Rowling

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. — J. K. Rowling

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. — J. K. Rowling

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength — J. K. Rowling

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble? — J. K. Rowling

I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology. — Danila Kozlovsky

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read? — J. K. Rowling

It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here — J. K. Rowling

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. — J. K. Rowling

Dumbledore Quotes

'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.' — J. K. Rowling

I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore. — J. K. Rowling

I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME! — J. K. Rowling

I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you. — J. K. Rowling

Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean? — J. K. Rowling

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . . — J. K. Rowling

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters. — Evanna Lynch

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns. — J. K. Rowling

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. — J. K. Rowling

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. — J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter Film Quotes

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. — Gary Oldman

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along. — Tom Felton

this kiss between hermione and ron is highly anticipated, it's been building up for eight films now. and harry potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex. — Emma Watson

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something! — Daniel Radcliffe

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully. — Tom Felton

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'. — Peter Greenaway

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on films that's often playing Harry [Potter] or I just think it's a natural thing that I have. It's something that I think about just because it's fascinating in a very alien kind of way. — Daniel Radcliffe

I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films. — Daniel Radcliffe

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else. — Daniel Radcliffe

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films. — John C. Reilly

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More Hogwarts Quotes

By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition. — J. K. Rowling

Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact. — J. K. Rowling

He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable. — J. K. Rowling

Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? — J. K. Rowling

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. — J. K. Rowling

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. — Rachel Cohn

Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. — J. K. Rowling

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

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts. — J. K. Rowling

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them. — J. K. Rowling

Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "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. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were? — J. K. Rowling

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. — Pete Earley

You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you. — J. K. Rowling

Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should have gone to Hogwart's when I had the chance. — Darynda Jones

However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. — J. K. Rowling

Albus Severus, Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. — J. K. Rowling

Where's the course called How to Lead a Life of Crime? That's what this is about, isn't it? You've got everyone thinking this is the best school in the country, but it's really just a Hogwarts for hustlers. — Kirsten Miller

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go. — Cornelia Funke

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year. — Joel Siegel

I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again. — Jennifer Lawrence

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled. — J. K. Rowling

But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same business for which I'd sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears? Well, maybe not sweat and tears, but there was blood. Lots of blood. Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance. — Darynda Jones

He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world — J. K. Rowling

Er — have the Bludgers ever killed anyone?” Harry asked, hoping he sounded offhand. “Never at Hogwarts. We’ve had a couple of broken jaws but nothing worse than that. You don’t have to worry about the Quaffle or the Bludgers —” “— unless they crack my head open.” “Don’t worry, the Weasleys are more than a match for the Bludgers — I mean, they’re like a pair of human Bludgers themselves. — J. K. Rowling

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote. — J. K. Rowling

Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it? — J. K. Rowling

So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to.” “He will not be single-handed!” said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes. “Oh yes he will, Minerva!” said Dumbledore sharply. “Hogwarts needs you! — J. K. Rowling

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot. — J. K. Rowling

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