67 Harry Potter Quotes (Courage, Friendship, Love & Magic from Hogwarts)

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Albus Dumbledore

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Albus Dumbledore

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Albus Dumbledore

Yer a wizard, Harry.

Rubeus Hagrid

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Albus Dumbledore

After all this time? Always.

Severus Snape

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed.

Rubeus Hagrid

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Albus Dumbledore

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

Albus Dumbledore

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.

Albus Dumbledore

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Albus Dumbledore

I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed, or worse, expelled.

Hermione Granger

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.

Hermione Granger

You’re just as sane as I am.

Luna Lovegood

I will join you when hell freezes over. Dumbledore’s Army!

Neville Longbottom

Mischief managed.

The Marauders

Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?

Ron Weasley

Don’t let the Muggles get you down.

Ron Weasley

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Sirius Black

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley

I want to fix that in my memory forever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

Ron Weasley

Honestly, am I the only person who’s ever read Hogwarts: A History?

Hermione Granger

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Albus Dumbledore

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

Albus Dumbledore

Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.

Albus Dumbledore

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Albus Dumbledore

I open at the close.

Albus Dumbledore

We will stay with you until the very end.

James Potter

You have your mother’s eyes.

Severus Snape

Look at me.

Severus Snape

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Albus Dumbledore

I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you.

Severus Snape

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Albus Dumbledore

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Albus Dumbledore

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Albus Dumbledore

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

Albus Dumbledore

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Albus Dumbledore

You dare use my own spells against me, Potter?

Severus Snape

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death.

Severus Snape

There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class.

Severus Snape

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

Severus Snape

It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.

Remus Lupin

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

Rowena Ravenclaw

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.

Hogwarts motto

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Albus Dumbledore

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Swish and flick.

Professor Flitwick

Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us?

Harry Potter

If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you, but no pressure.

Ron Weasley

The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that.

Luna Lovegood

Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here!

Albus Dumbledore

Do not be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who has gone at last!

Minerva McGonagall

It is lucky it is dark. I have not blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

Albus Dumbledore

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

Arthur Weasley

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Arthur Weasley