There are few things in this world that can connect people as universally as Harry Potter. The books and movies have been beloved by people of all ages for over two decades. Its success has spawned a generation of witches and wizards (and Muggles, too). With so many great books and movies, there are also some great Harry Potter quotes! There are also some great jokes and memes too!
J.K. Rowling’s creation has taken the world by storm, and there’s no stopping it now. Whether you’re a superfan or just getting into it, here are 81 quotes from the popular book and movie series from Sorcerer’s Stone all the way to Deathly Hallows. Enjoy!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Quotes
1) “You’re a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant…but scary.” – Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2) “Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
3) “As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
4) “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things – friendship and bravery.” – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
5) “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
6) “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
7) “Funny way to get to a wizards’ school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?” – Uncle Vernon, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
8) “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.” – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
9) “If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
LeviOsa!
10) “It’s leviOsa, not levioSA!” – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
11) “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.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
12) “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
13) “I shouldn’t have said that. I should not have said that” – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
14) “She needs to sort out her priorities.” – Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
15) “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
16) “The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
17) “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
18) “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
19) “Troll – in the dungeons – thought you ought to know.” – Professor Quirrell, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“The wand chooses the wizard.”
20) “The wand chooses the wizard.” – Garrick Ollivander, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
21) “There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don’t expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!” – Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
22) “Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?” – Fred Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
23) “Yer a wizard Harry.” – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
24) “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.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Quotes
25) “It’s an odd sort of place, isn’t it? …Do you live here?” – Gilderoy Lockhart, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
26) “I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I’m not there.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
27) “Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.” – Dobby, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
28) “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.” – Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
29) “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain!” – Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
30) “Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.” – Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
31) “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
32) “Training for the ballet, Potter?” – Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
33) “When in doubt, go to the library.” – Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
34) “You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Quotes
35) “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
36) “But you know, happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
37) “In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
38) “The ones that love us never really leave us.” – Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
39) “I solemnly swear I am up to no good.” – Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
40) “That felt good!” – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
41) “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Quotes
42) “I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. ‘Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.’” – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
43) “What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.” – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
44) “CONSTANT VIGILANCE!” – Barty Crouch, Jr., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
45) “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
46) “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
47) “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, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
48) “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix Quotes
49) “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
50) “We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
51) “Family…Whatever yeh say, blood’s important…” – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
52) “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
53) “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
54) “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.” – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
55) “You might not like him, Minister, but you can’t deny…Dumbledore’s got style.” – Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
56) “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education…Time to test our talents in the real world, d’you reckon?” – Fred Weasley, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
57) “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” – Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Quotes
58) “Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
59) “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
60) “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
61) “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.” – Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
62) “Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!” –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
63) “And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
64) “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Spiders…
65) “Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are. It’s the eyes, I reckon; they unnerve some folk.” – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
66) “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
67) “All she wants to do is snog me…My lips are getting chapped, look!” – Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
68) “It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew – and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents – that there was all the difference in the world.” – Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
69) “What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!” – Fleur Delacour, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
70) “I am not worried, Harry…I am with you.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Quotes
71) “Always.” – Severus Snape, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
72) “We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?” – Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
73) “Boom!…I’ve always wanted to use that spell.” – Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
74) “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.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
75) “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
76) “Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” – Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
77) “Not my daughter you bitch!” – Molly Weasley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
78) “It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.” – Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
79) “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
80) “Ya, you and whose army?” – Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
81) “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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