“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”

“Give her hell from us, Peeves.”

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”

“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”

“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

“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!”

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”

“So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ...

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.”

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”

“But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.”

“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”

“Accio Brain!”

“From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.”

“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.”

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”

“Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!”

“Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it.

"Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.”

“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”

“You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.”

“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

“There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”

“Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”

“Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”

“For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.”

“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!”

“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.”

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.”

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

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

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

“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”

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

“Here lies Dobby, a free elf.”

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”

“Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!”

“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”

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

“Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days."

“Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”