Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness.”

— J.K. Rowling

202. “Harry Potter is greater by far than Dobby knew!” he sobbed. “Farewell, Harry Potter!”

— J.K. Rowling

203. “I mean, it’s sort of exciting isn’t it? Breaking the rules.”

— J.K. Rowling

204. “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.”

— J.K. Rowling

205. “I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself.”

— J.K. Rowling

206. “The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

207. “As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older – Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof.”

— J.K. Rowling

208. “You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

— J.K. Rowling

209. “You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

210. “Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.”

— J.K. Rowling

211. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

212. “Give me Harry Potter,” said Voldemort’s voice, “and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. “You have until midnight.”

— J.K. Rowling

213. “The more you care, the more you have to lose.”

— J.K. Rowling

214. “Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.”

— J.K. Rowling

215. “And let it be noted that Slytherin House played its part! Let our contribution not be forgotten!”

— J.K. Rowling

216. “Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who – well – something of that sort...”

— J.K. Rowling

217. “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

218. “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

219. “We’re his army,” said Neville. “Dumbledore’s Army. We were all in it together, we’ve been keeping it going while you three have been off on your own – ” “It hasn’t exactly been a picnic, mate,” said Ron. “I never said it had, but I don’t see why you can’t trust us. Everyone in this room’s been fighting and they’ve been driven in here because the Carrows were hunting them down. Everyone in here’s proven they’re loyal to Dumbledore – loyal to you.”

— J.K. Rowling

220. “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being – forgive me – rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”

— J.K. Rowling

221. “It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”

— J.K. Rowling

222. “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

223. “Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that’s gripping the nation!”

— J.K. Rowling

224. “He’ll be famous – a legend – I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future – there will be books written about Harry – every child in our world will know his name!”

— J.K. Rowling

225. “Twitchy little ferret, aren’t you, Malfoy?”

— J.K. Rowling

226. “I take my hat off to you – or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.”

— J.K. Rowling

227. “Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide – except perhaps Hogwarts.”

— J.K. Rowling

228. “The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon – hope, happiness, the desire to survive – but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can’t hurt it.”

— J.K. Rowling

229. “Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.”

— J.K. Rowling

230. “We can only guess,” said Dumbledore. “We may never know.”

— J.K. Rowling

231. “That even though we’ve got a fight ahead of us, we’ve got one thing that Voldemort doesn’t have. – Something worth fighting for.”

— J.K. Rowling

232. “Don’t count your owls before they are delivered.”

— J.K. Rowling

233. “Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!”

— J.K. Rowling

234. “Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!”

— J.K. Rowling

235. “But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.” “Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places,” suggested Dumbledore.”

— J.K. Rowling

236. “I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I’m not there.”

— J.K. Rowling

237. “Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.”

— J.K. Rowling

238. “I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.”

— J.K. Rowling

239. “Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

— J.K. Rowling

240. “Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!”

— J.K. Rowling

241. “Accio Firebolt!”

— J.K. Rowling

242. “Nasty temper he’s got, that Sirius Black.”

— J.K. Rowling

243. “Oooh, look, a Blibbering Humdinger!”

— J.K. Rowling

244. “I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...”

— J.K. Rowling

245. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

247. “Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.”

— J.K. Rowling

248. “I am the creature you have not seen. I am you. I am me. The echo unforseen. Sometimes in front, sometimes behind. A constant companion, for we are entwined.”

— J.K. Rowling

249. “Time is Galleons, little brother.”

— J.K. Rowling

250. “You’re the cleverest witch I’ve ever met Hermione.”

— J.K. Rowling