J. K. Rowling, Quotes

Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.

What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.

He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same.

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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!

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

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.

For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

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

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Look . . . at . . . me. . . .

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

The wand chooses the wizard.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.

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.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

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

One can never have enough socks