Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.”

— J.K. Rowling

452. “Hem, hem.” Professor Umbridge had arrived. She was standing a few feet away from Harry, wearing her green hat and cloak again, her clipboard at the ready. Hagrid, who had never heard Umbridge’s fake cough before, was gazing in some concern at the closest thestral, evidently under the impression that it had made the sound.”

— J.K. Rowling

453. “Funny way to get to a wizards’ school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?”

— J.K. Rowling

454. “Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore’s pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.”

— J.K. Rowling

455. “He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”

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456. “Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape’s Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.”

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457. “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”

— J.K. Rowling

458. “Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.”

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459. “Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a layer of crisp snow; there were holly wreaths on the doors and strings of enchanted candles hanging in the trees.”

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460. “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

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

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462. “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...”

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463. “If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it.”

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464. “Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.”

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465. “Harry was particularly keen to avoid trouble with his aunt and uncle at the moment, as they were already in an especially bad mood with him, all because he’d received a telephone call from a fellow wizard one week into the school vacation.”

— J.K. Rowling

466. “Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences.”

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467. “I’m trying to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, sir,” said Harry fiercely.”

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468. “Still, if I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I’d choose you.”

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469. “Montague’s just been found in a toilet, Sir.”

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470. “You filthy hypocrite! What about you and Lavender, thrashing around like a pair of eels all over the place?” demanded Ginny.”

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471. “Remember old Fleur Delacour?’ said George. ‘She’s got a job at Gringotts to eemprove ’er Eeenglish –.”

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472. “Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly and tugged. With a bang like a gunshot, the cracker flew apart to reveal a large, pointed witch’s hat topped with a stuffed vulture. Harry, remembering the boggart, caught Ron’s eye and they both grinned; Snape’s mouth thinned and he pushed the hat toward Dumbledore, who swapped it for his wizard’s hat at once.”

— J.K. Rowling

473. “Oh, shut up Weatherby.”

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474. “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.”

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475. “You are blinded,” said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, “by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be!”

— J.K. Rowling

476. “S’up, Figgy?”

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477. “The Golden Snitch is walnut-sized, as was the Golden Snidget. It is bewitched to evade capture as long as possible. There is a tale that a Golden Snitch evaded capture for six months on Bodmin Moor in 1884, both teams finally giving up in disgust at their Seekers’ poor performances. Cornish wizards familiar with the area insist to this day that the Snitch is still living wild on the moor, though I have not been able to confirm this story.”

— J.K. Rowling

478. “I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.”

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479. “I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.”

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480. “All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!”

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481. “What she did have were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.”

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482. “Myrtle Elizabeth Warren – a pretty name – my name – no need for the moaning.”

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483. “They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.”

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484. “Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,? Dumbledore went on, smiling.”

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485. “What they’re saying,’ she pressed on, ‘is that last night Voldemort turned up in Godric’s Hollow. He went to find the Potters. The rumour is that Lily and James Potter are – are – that they’re – dead.”

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486. “Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!”

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487. “Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry,” said Fred earnestly. “Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever.”

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488. “With fumbling fingers Harry started to remove his many layers of clothing. Where “chivalry” entered into this, he thought ruefully, he was not entirely sure, unless it counted as chivalrous that he was not calling for Hermione to do it in his stead.”

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489. “Metamorphmagus?”

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490. “Yes, exactly. I heard he’s a sort of savage – lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed.” “I think he’s brilliant,” said Harry coldly.”

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491. “There are much more terrible things than physical injury.”

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492. “Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless...”

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493. “And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.”

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494. “It’s not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog.”

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495. “The inner eye does not see upon command.”

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496. “Bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what’s possible.”

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497. “Oh, it was Malfoy, I was thinking about him and I lost track of things!”

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498. “Hope springs forever.”

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499. “As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.”

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500. “Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy – Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!”

— J.K. Rowling