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100 Harry Potter Quotes For You To Feel The Magic

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100 Harry Potter Quotes For You To Feel The Magic

100 Best Harry Potter Quotes

J.K. Rowling was the author that introduced us to the magical world of Harry Potter more than 20 years ago. From paper to the screen, this is a world full of magic and this makes it one of the most popular fantasy series of all times. Both books and movies are full of inspirational and emotional dialogues that most Harry Potter fans will never forget. 

This saga has taught us about friendship, love, life, death, and courage. So, in this post, we have compiled (in order) the most magical and inspirational quotes that were said by different characters from Hogwarts. Read and remember when and why these quotes were said either in the books or in the movies. Enjoy and careful with the muggles! 

1“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

3"There is no good and evil, there is only power."

Professor Quirrell, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

4"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

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

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

6"Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

7"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and — oh Harry — be careful!"

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

8“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

9"Clearly Potter, fame isn't everything is it?"

Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

10"I'm going to bed before either of you think up of a clever idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled!"

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

11"It's true then, what they're saying on the train. Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts."

Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

12"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

13"You're a wizard, Harry."

Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

14"It's not the wizard that chooses the wand its the wand that chooses the wizard"

Mr.Ollivanders, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

15"You're a little scary sometimes, you know that. Brilliant. But scary."

Ron Wisley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

16"You're the boy who lived."

Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

17"Stop, stop stop! You're going to take someone's eye out. Besides, you're saying it wrong. It's Levi-o-sa, not Levio-sar"

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

18"I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry, just Harry."

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

19"It's curious that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar."

Mr. Ollivander, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

20"The only problem is I can't remember what I've forgotten."

Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

21“One can never have enough socks.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

22"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

23"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

George Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

24"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

25"Until the very end."

James Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

26"Don't let the muggles get you down."

Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

27"What's comin' will come, and we'll meet it when it does."

Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

28"Anything’s possible if you've got enough nerve."

Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

29"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

30"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."

Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

31“Dobby is free.”

Dobby, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

32"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

33"Facing this stuff in real life is not like school. In school, if you make a mistake, you can just try again tomorrow, but out there, when you're a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes, you don't know what that's like."

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

34“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

35"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

36“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

37"I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?"

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

39“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

40"Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

41"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

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

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Quotes

43"Only Muggles talk of “mind-reading”. 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 any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter – or at least, most minds are."

Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

44"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

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

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

46"This pain is part of being human . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

47"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish . . . but battle on."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

48"While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

49"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe."

Nearly Headless Nick, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

50"We teachers are rather good at magic, you know."

Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

51"There were near misses, many of them. We laughed about them afterwards. We were young, thoughtless — carried away with our own cleverness."

Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

52“You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason...”

Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

53“You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me.”

Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

54“It would’ve been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier and make it look like an accident...”

Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

55“What? My – my mom and dad weren’t famous, were they?”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

56"Yes, but the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters"

Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

57“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike...”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

59"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it is to be young."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

60"The best of us sometimes eat our words."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

61“I’m not buying anything Malfoy thinks is good.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

62“I just want to know what Snape did with his first chance, if he’s on his second one.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

63“There’s no need to call me ‘sir,’ Professor.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

64"Life isn't fair."

Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

66"Ah, music! A magic beyond all we do here!”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

67“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 bothern’ with.’”

Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

68"Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bother to read Hogwarts: A History?"

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

69"I think we've outgrown full-time education ... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?"

Fred, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

70"Always"

Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

71"I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up — it always does in the end."

Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

72"Even though we got a fight ahead of us, we’ve got one thing that Voldemort doesn’t have. Something worth fighting for."

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

73“Sorry, professor, but I must not tell lies.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

74“You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

75“There's a reason I can hear them, the horcruxes. I think I've known for a while, and I think you have too."

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

76“Dumbledore trusted me to see this through...I'm not interested in what happened between you and your brother. I don't care that you've given up. I trusted the man I knew.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

77“Dobby never meant to kill. Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure.”

Dobby, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

78“It's true. I am the Chosen One, only I can destroy him, but in order to do so, I need to know what Tom Riddle asked you all those years ago in your office, and I need to know what you told him. Be brave, sir. Be brave like my mother.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

79“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

80“Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.”

Dobby, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

81"And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y-fronts was that about?"

Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

82“Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

83“He will undoubtedly try to collect you, Harry. You would be the jewel of his collection: the Boy Who Lived … or, as they call you these days, the Chosen One.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

84“The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the Dementor feeds upon – hope, happiness, the desire to survive...”

Professor Lupin, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

85“Kreacher will not insult Harry Potter in front of Dobby, no he won’t, or Dobby will shut Kreacher’s mouth for him!”

Dobby, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

86“Jealous? Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.”

Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

87“If either of you get us caught, I'll never rest until I've learnt that Curse of the Bogies Quirrell told us about and used it on you.”

Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

88“I take only the very best into my N.E.W.T. Potions class, which means that some of us will certainly be saying goodbye.”

Professor Snape, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

89“In the old days he had huge numbers at his command: witches and wizards he’d bullied or bewitched into following him, his faithful Death Eaters, a great variety of Dark creatures.”

Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

90“I got famous because he murdered my family but couldn’t kill me! Who wants to be famous for that?”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

91“That’s the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard, including all the stuff that Luna Lovegood comes out with.”

Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

92“Don’t count your owls before they are delivered.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

93"Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!"

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

94“Harry, swear to me you won’t go looking for Black.”

Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

95“I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.”

Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

96“The placing of your name in the Goblet constitutes a binding, magical contract. There can be no change of heart once you have become champion.”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

97“Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an ‘Acceptable’ in your O.W.L., or suffer my ... displeasure.”

Professor Snape, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

98“I know one thing: last time the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a Mudblood died. So I bet it’s only a matter of time before one of them’s killed this time . . . I hope it’s Granger.”

Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

99“Only a really powerful Dark Wizard could have survived a curse like that.”

Ernie Macmillan, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

100“I am not worried, Harry, I am with you."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince