Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Lockhart’ll sign anything if it stands still long enough.”

— J.K. Rowling

402. “The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.”

— J.K. Rowling

403. “Snape might refer to their work as “cleaning,” but in Harry’s opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher.”

— J.K. Rowling

404. “Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.”

— J.K. Rowling

405. “Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.”

— J.K. Rowling

406. “He bent his great, shaggy head over Harry and gave him what must have been a very scratchy, whiskery kiss.”

— J.K. Rowling

407. “And that’s the second time we’ve saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!? Ron yelled.”

— J.K. Rowling

408. “Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that – no? Well, if you’re sure – better be GRYFFINDOR!”

— J.K. Rowling

409. “Right little ray of sunshine, aren’t you?” said Ron. “You and Professor Trelawney should get together sometime.”

— J.K. Rowling

410. “Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you’ll get caughty.”

— J.K. Rowling

411. “Stand up straight,” said Sirius impatiently. “Now, what are you up to?” “Kreacher is cleaning,” the elf repeated. “Kreacher lives to serve the noble house of Black – ” “ – and it’s getting blacker every day, it’s filthy,” said Sirius.”

— J.K. Rowling

412. “Get back, you scurvy braggart! Back, you rogue!”

— J.K. Rowling

413. “Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.? And what will you give me in return, Severus?? In – in return? Anything.”

— J.K. Rowling

414. “Don’t be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.”

— J.K. Rowling

415. “Dear me,” said Dumbledore, shaking his head, his long silver mustache quivering. “Impaled upon your own sword, Gilderoy!” “Sword?” said Lockhart dimly. “Haven’t got a sword. That boy has, though.” He pointed at Harry. “He’ll lend you one.”

— J.K. Rowling

416. “Mrs. Figg, their batty old neighbor, came panting into sight. Her grizzled gray hair was escaping from its hairnet, a clanking string shopping bag was swinging from her wrist, and her feet were halfway out of her tartan carpet slippers. Harry made to stow his wand hurriedly out of sight, but – “Don’t put it away, idiot boy!” she shrieked. “What if there are more of them around? Oh, I’m going to kill Mundungus Fletcher!”

— J.K. Rowling

417. “Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.”

— J.K. Rowling

418. “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”

— J.K. Rowling

419. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

420. “Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se nombra.”

— J.K. Rowling

421. “Harry saw Yaxley slammed to the floor by George and Lee Jordan, saw Dolohov fall with a scream at Flitwick’s hands, saw Walden Macnair thrown across the room by Hagrid, hit the stone wall opposite, and slide unconscious to the ground. He saw Ron and Neville bringing down Fenrir Greyback, Aberforth Stunning Rookwood, Arthur and Percy flooring Thicknesse, and Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy running through the crowd, not even attempting to fight, screaming for their son.”

— J.K. Rowling

422. “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

423. “Fought ’em off, did you, son?’ said Uncle Vernon loudly, with the appearance of a man struggling to bring the conversation back on to a plane he understood. ‘Gave ’em the old one-two, did you?’ ‘You can’t give a Dementor the old one-two,’ said Harry through clenched teeth.”

— J.K. Rowling

424. “Snape: one person. All it takes is one person. I couldn’t save Harry for Lily. So now I give my allegiance to the cause she belueved in. And it’s possible – that along the way I startef belueving in myself.”

— J.K. Rowling

425. “Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.”

— J.K. Rowling

426. “The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn’t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley’s sister, but they.”

— J.K. Rowling

427. “Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

429. “Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.”

— J.K. Rowling

430. “Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

— J.K. Rowling

431. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

432. “And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.”

— J.K. Rowling

433. “It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.”

— J.K. Rowling

434. “If he wants ter go, a great Muggle like you won’t stop him,” growled Hagrid. “Stop Lily an’ James Potter’s son goin’ ter Hogwarts! Yer mad. His.”

— J.K. Rowling

435. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

437. “Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

439. “The time has come for Slytherin House to decide upon its loyalties.”

— J.K. Rowling

440. “Sirius did not hate Kreacher,′ said Dumbledore. ‘He regarded him as a servant unworthy of much interest or notice. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike...”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

443. “Well – I was lucky once, wasn’t I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.”

— J.K. Rowling

444. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

446. “Harry had never believed he would meet a boy he hated more than Dudley, but that was before he met Draco Malfoy.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

449. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

450. “Exploding Snap’s got nothing to do with Defence Against the Dark Arts, Professor! That’s not information relating to your subject!”

— J.K. Rowling