Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

303. “One day,” said Hermione, sounding thoroughly exasperated, “you’ll read Hogwarts: A History, and perhaps that will remind you that you can’t Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts.”

— J.K. Rowling

304. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

306. “At the age of one year old, Harry had somehow survived a curse from the greatest Dark sorcerer of all time, Lord Voldemort, whose name most witches and wizards still feared to speak. Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow – nobody understood why – Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry.”

— J.K. Rowling

307. “Ron said, “One person can’t feel all that at once, they’d explode.” “Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have,” said Hermione.”

— J.K. Rowling

308. “Ultimately, she had a bigger heart than she had a brain, and that’s saying something for Hermione.”

— J.K. Rowling

309. “Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. As a matter of fact, he was as not normal as it is possible to be.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

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

— J.K. Rowling

313. “To Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive.”

— J.K. Rowling

314. “If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.”

— J.K. Rowling

315. “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

316. “Albus Dumbledore didn’t seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.”

— J.K. Rowling

317. “To hurt is as human as to breathe.”

— J.K. Rowling

318. “The truth is that you don’t think a girl would have been clever enough,’ said Hermione angrily. ‘How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

320. “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right,” said Hermione. “I heard him telling your mum, Ron.” “Sounds like the sort of mental thing Dumbledore would say,” said Ron.”

— J.K. Rowling

321. “The measures they had taken to protect their families made him realize, more than anything else could have done, that they really were going to come with him and that they knew exactly how dangerous that would be. He wanted to tell them what that meant to him, but he simply could not find words important enough.”

— J.K. Rowling

322. “Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall bent forward over the bundle of blankets. Inside, just visible, was a baby boy, fast asleep. Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped cut, like a bolt of lightning.”

— J.K. Rowling

323. “Accio Firebolt!”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

325. “He’s a werewolf! That’s why he’s been missing classes!”

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326. “Strange how nearsighted being invisible can make you” – said Dumbledore.”

— J.K. Rowling

327. “Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned to you. Use it well. A Very Merry Christmas to you.”

— J.K. Rowling

328. “He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn’t get my hopes up.”

— J.K. Rowling

329. “Size is no guarantee of power.”

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330. “Accio Brain!”

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331. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

332. “I tell you, that dragon’s the most horrible animal I’ve ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you’d think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

334. “You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we’ve got Fudge, pretending everything’s lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we’ve got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you’ve got ‘The Chosen One’ working for you!”

— J.K. Rowling

335. “Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel – Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.”

— J.K. Rowling

336. “Ah, well, people can be a bit stupid abou’ their pets,” said Hagrid wisely. Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid’s pillow.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

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338. “Dear Professor Dumbledore, Sorry to bother you, but my scar hurt this morning. Yours sincerely, Harry Potter.”

— J.K. Rowling

339. “Nobody’s ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?”

— J.K. Rowling

340. “It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.”

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341. “Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

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343. “Mad?” said Percy airily. “He’s a genius! Best wizard in the world! But he is a bit mad, yes. Potatoes, Harry?”

— J.K. Rowling

344. “Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall.”

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345. “Sometimes, however, the visitors stayed to help; Tonks joined them for a memorable afternoon in which they found a murderous old ghoul lurking in an upstairs toilet, and Lupin, who was staying in the house with Sirius but who left it for long periods to do mysterious work for the Order, helped them repair a grandfather clock that had developed the unpleasant habit of shooting heavy bolts at passersby.”

— J.K. Rowling

346. “Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?”

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347. “Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.”

— J.K. Rowling

348. “It was Snape who had overheard the prophecy. It was Snape who had carried the news of the prophecy to Voldemort. Snape and Peter Pettigrew together had sent Voldemort hunting after Lily and James and their son.”

— J.K. Rowling

349. “Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!”

— J.K. Rowling

350. “Get up, you useless lump, get up!”

— J.K. Rowling