Top 100 J.K. Rowling Quotes
#1. . . . and tiny little ears," Luna was saying, "a bit like a hippo's, Daddy says, only purple and hairy. And if you want to call them, you have to hum; they prefer a waltz, nothing too fast. . . ." Looking
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#2. She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ...
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#3. Hufflepuff is a pushover. Last time we played them, Harry caught the Snitch in about five minutes,
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#4. Harry took the wand. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls.
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#5. Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive with Dudley was good to know; it made him feel slightly calmer.
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#6. I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
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#7. George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team."
Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.
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#8. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
- Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
The Silkworm
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#9. Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.
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#10. Sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good!
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#11. Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.
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#12. Professor Mcgonagall: Why is it when something bad happens, it's always you three? Ron: Believe me, professor, I've been asking myself the exact same thing for the past six years.
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#13. Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable.
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#14. How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
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#15. You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
"What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron.
"What did you have to imitate her for?"
"She laughed at my mustache!"
"So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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#16. I will settle, in the short term," said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, "for a lack of open hostility. You will shake hands. You are on the same side now. Time is short, and unless the few of us who know the truth stand united, there is no hope for any of us.
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#17. 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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#18. She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars.
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#19. Another song for Harry is don't tell'm by Jeremiah it compares to Harry because he got to keep as secret from everyone that he is a wizard and only his cousin, aunt, and uncle know
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#20. Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
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#21. A gifted wizard, but an unlikely politician, McLaird was an exceptionally taciturn man who preferred to communicate in monosyllables and expressive puffs of smoke that he produced through the end of his wand. Forced from office out of sheer irritation at his eccentricities.
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#22. Dear molly,
Watching over Fred like you have been watching over my Harry all these years.
Love,
Lily
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#23. But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
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#24. AHA!" screamed a voice from overhead ... Peeves was hanging upside down from a chandelier and grinning maliciously at them.
"Potty asked Loony to go to the party! Potty lurves Loony! Potty luuuuurves Looooooony!"
And he zoomed away, cackling and shrieking, "Potty loves Loony!
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#25. Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
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#26. The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with people who were obviously very important wizards. Percy jumped to his feet so often that he looked as though he were trying to sit on a hedgehog.
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#27. Fascinating," said Snape, without looking at it.
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#28. Mrs. Weasley was marching across the yard, scattering chickens, and for a short, plump, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a saber-toothed tiger.
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#29. He left her, never saw her again, and never troubled to discover what became of his son.
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#30. What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
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#31. It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin. . . ." "Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Harry
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#32. Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.
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#33. My parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.
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#34. Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.
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#35. You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!
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#37. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing Potter for President over the crowd. His heart skipped. He felt braver.
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#38. Come . . . come to me. . . . Let me rip you. . . . Let me tear you. . . . Let me kill you. . . .
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#39. From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.
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#40. We've been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making things," said Ginny. "We thought they just liked the noise.
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#41. the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent.
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#42. Professor," Harry gasped. "Your bird - I couldn't do anything - he just caught fire -
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#43. By six o'clock that evening, however, even the glow of having successfully asked out Cho Chang was insufficient to lighten the ominous feelings that intensified with every step Harry took toward Snape's office.
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#44. It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course.
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#45. Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
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#46. It's not possible to live with the Dursleys and not hate them," said Harry. "I'd like to see you try it.
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#47. I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.
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#49. Give the incantation, and b) describe the wand movement required to make objects fly. . .
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#50. They had hoped that Goyle, who was almost as stupid as he was mean, might be thrown out, but he had passed, too. It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life. And
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#51. Potter!" said Snape suddenly. "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Powdered
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#52. Just cast a spell, Dad, and change me into what you want me to be, okay?
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#53. It seemed that Dudley was struggling with concepts too difficult to put into words. After several moments of apparently painful internal struggle he said, "But where's he going to go?
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#55. Harry could still hear the distant bangs of escaped firecrackers when he and Ron went up to bed an hour later, and as he got undressed a sparkler floated past the tower, still resolutely spelling out the word
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#56. On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.
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#57. You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
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#58. The cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.
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#59. How did you get here?" Harry asked.
"Flew," said Hagrid.
"Flew?
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#60. If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.
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#63. Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?
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#64. No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom ... I wish I could ...
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#65. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...
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#66. Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.
'Mum! I can't give a professor love!'
'But you know Neville-'
James rolled his eyes.
'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love ...
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#67. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.
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#69. Listen," said Harry firmly. "If you don't take it, I'm throwing it down the drain. I don't want it and I don't need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long.
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#70. Well, it's no good crying over spilled potion, I suppose . . . but the cat's among the pixies now . . .
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#71. Voldemort,' said Riddle softly, 'is my past,
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#74. Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does.
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#75. He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.
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#76. Her gorgeousness was a matter of minor adjustments to a pattern, so that a breathtaking harmony resulted.
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#77. Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations, said Ron, to general astonishment.
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#78. If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.
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#80. Harry and Ron slouched into the Great Hall in states of deepest gloom, Hermione behind them, wearing a well-you-did-break-school-rules sort of expression.
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#81. Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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#82. I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
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#83. RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you're worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you're getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate.
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#84. I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmead at weekends.
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#85. Blimey, Neville,' said Ron, 'there's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.' 'You didn't hear her,' said Neville. 'You wouldn't have stood it either. The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. I used to notice that when you did it, Harry.
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#86. He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!
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#87. Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.
'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.
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#88. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
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#90. And here we have six missing Death Eaters ... three dead in my service. One, too cowardly to return ... he will pay. One, who I believe has left me for ever ... he will be killed, of course ... and one who remains my most faithful servant, and who has already re-entered my service.
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#91. How're you feeling?' Ginny asked Ron, who was now staring into the dregs of milk at the bottom of him empty cereal bowl as of seriously considering attempting to drown himself in them.
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#92. What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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#93. Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
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#94. Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?"
"Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me - "
"I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times - "
"Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand -
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#95. OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing.
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#97. Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
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#99. And then she was kissing him as she never had before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand at her back and one in her long, sweet-smelling hair ...
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#100. Oliver, calm down!" said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. "We're taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously.
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