The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. — J.K. Rowling
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.
— J.K. Rowling
Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!
— J.K. Rowling
Help only comes to those who ask for it.
— J.K. Rowling
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
You're just as sane as I am.' Smiling
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry
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Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.
— J.K. Rowling
There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.
— J.K. Rowling
It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have -
— J.K. Rowling
The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.
— K.J. Parker
Harry tried every variation of 'I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you' that he could think of for a whole hour, at
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No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.
— J.K. Rowling
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
— J.K. Rowling
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
— J.K. Rowling
Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?
— J.K. Rowling
First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
— J.K. Rowling
Oh, Ron, what's it to you if my schedule's a bit full?" Hermione snapped. "I told you, I've fixed it all with Professor McGonagall.
— J.K. Rowling
You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!
— J.K. Rowling
God Rest Ye Merry, Hippogriffs" at
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I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
— J.K. Rowling
P.S. I enjoy acid pops.
— J.K. Rowling
Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!
— J.K. Rowling
WHO HAD TO GET PAST DRAGONS AND SPHINXES AND EVERY OTHER FOUL THING LAST YEAR? WHO SAW HIM COME BACK? WHO HAD TO ESCAPE FROM HIM? ME!
— J.K. Rowling
The true master of the Elder Wand was Draco Malfoy.
— J.K. Rowling
he had had a family.
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In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.
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Prongs rode again last night ... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night ... You found him inside yourself.
— J.K. Rowling
Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?
— J.K. Rowling
Yoooou!" she howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. "Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh!
— J.K. Rowling
You're remarkably uninteresting for a flying trollop.
— K.J. Charles
Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?
— J.K. Rowling
It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course.
— J.K. Rowling
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle. — Cassandra Clare
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. — J.K. Rowling
Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it. — J.K. Rowling
We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that? — J.K. Rowling
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. — J.K. Rowling
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.' — J.K. Simmons
You're not a bad person. You're a very good person. Who bad things have happened to. — J.K. Rowling
LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger." - J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — J.K. Rowling
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling
The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it. Boa Constrictor, Brazil. — J.K. Rowling
Come . . . come to me. . . . Let me rip you. . . . Let me tear you. . . . Let me kill you. . . . — J.K. Rowling
So before you decide you can't forgive her, ask yourself if you want to live without her. We're only here for a short time, man. Don't waste it. — K.J. Bell
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive. — J.K. Rowling
the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent. — J.K. Rowling
spasm of horror, which — J.K. Rowling
Voldemort,' said Riddle softly, 'is my past, — J.K. Rowling
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J.K. Rowling
jinxes when they want to make — J.K. Rowling
I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. — J.K. Rowling
I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling
Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his - — J.K. Rowling
Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts. — J.K. Rowling
use the boy. use the boy. — J.K. Rowling
So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left - ""Don't talk to your mother like that. — J.K. Rowling
I don't think about who the audience is for my books. — J.K. Rowling
I'll show them ... it'll really wipe the smiles off their faces if we win." "Just as long as we're not wiping you off the field," said Hermione. — J.K. Rowling
16Now may i the Lord of peace himself j give you peace at all times in every way. k The Lord be with you all. — Anonymous
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. — J.K. Rowling
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was. — J.K. Rowling
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength — J.K. Rowling
An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye, glistened from a golden chain around his neck. — J.K. Rowling
Intelligence'?" repeated Magorian, as Bane and several others roared with rage and pawed the ground. "We consider that a great insult, human! — J.K. Rowling
Harry couldn't blame them. — J.K. Rowling
Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. — J.K. Rowling
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. — J.K. Rowling
How's Norbert doin'?"Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
Wha - Norbert's a girl? — J.K. Rowling
A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask."The Hammer — K.J. Parker
from yet another pocket inside his overcoat he pulled an owl - a real, live, rather ruffled-looking owl - a long quill, and a roll of parchment. — J.K. Rowling
Was it two or one dead face? Would you notice that at last? We are together and alone, until the firm and angry blast. — J.M.K. Walkow
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities ... like the ability to behave myself. — J.K. Rowling
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. — J.K. Rowling
Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven. — J.K. Rowling
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. — J.K. Rowling
We can't go in there at night - there's all sorts of things in there - werewolves, I heard. — J.K. Rowling
Crabbe or Goyle - or, come to think of it, another Death Eater, he'll have loads better cronies than Crabbe and Goyle now he's joined up — J.K. Rowling
Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig... — J.K. Rowling
House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales — J.K. Rowling
The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure. — J.K. Potter
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it. — J.K. Rowling
Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life, Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting. — J.K. Rowling
We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. — J.K. Rowling
You're nearly eight hundred years old and here you are, sitting on our sofa, and you're a vampire who needs our help. Of course. — K.J. Wignall
Always use the proper name of things. Fear of s name increased fear of the thing itself. — J.K. Rowling
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — J.K. Rowling
Harry, he's taking over the Ministry and the newspapers and half the Wizarding world! Don't let him inside your head too! — J.K. Rowling
