J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series and the accompanying films have inspired a generation of young (and old) people to love reading and dream of a world where anything is possible. Harry Potter quotes are filled with magic, wonder, and surprising bits of wisdom that can be applied to even a Muggle’s everyday life.
Dobby hears things, sir, he is a house-elf, he goes all over the castle as he lights the fires and mops the floors
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Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.
J. K. Rowling“This, sir?” said Dobby, plucking at the pillowcase. “‘Tis a mark of the house-elf’s enslavement, sir. Dobby can only be freed if his masters present him with clothes, sir."
J. K. RowlingYou foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach!
hermione GrangerNothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J. K. RowlingDon't worry. You're just as sane as I am.
J. K. RowlingHappiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Albus DumbledoreDo not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living, and above all those who live without love.
J. K. RowlingWe'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 BlackThings we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Luna LovegoodIt matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J. K. RowlingBut the thing is, you mustn’t go doing anything stupid.
J. K. RowlingRowling speaks to an adult generation that hasn't known and doesn't care about mystery. They are inhabitants of urban jungles, not of the real wild. They don't have the skills to tell ersatz magic from the real thing, for as children they daily invested the ersatz with what imagination they had.
a. s. byattYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgotten lately.
J. K. RowlingAge is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. RowlingWe are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J. K. RowlingWe could have all been killed – or worse, expelled.
J. K. RowlingNever trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling"I’m not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That’s the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.
J. K. RowlingIt is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. RowlingJust because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.
J. K. RowlingWords are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.
Albus Dumbledore“After all this time?” “Always.”
J. K. RowlingTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingWe are all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
J. K. RowlingNeither can live while the other survives...
J. K. RowlingThe scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
J. K. RowlingPercy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.
J. K. RowlingI'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy.
J. K. Rowling"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
J. K. RowlingDumbledore becomes both a friend and mentor to young Harry, providing some of the best quotes in the series along the way. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, he offers the essential truth "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, his ghost says, “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."
Harry Potter quotes inspire children to study hard and work to expand their minds. Throughout the series, battles are fought with skill and intellect instead of pure physical strength. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Severus Snape says, "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."
The idea of having a grand destiny is a theme that runs throughout the series, with young Harry beginning as a mistreated orphan and ending up one of the most powerful wizards in the world. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling writes, "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"