J. K. Rowling, Quotes

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?

I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!

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

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

Size is no guarantee of power.

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

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

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

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

Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!" squeaked Dobby angrily.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.