34 Magical Harry Potter Quotes

1. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” — Albus Dumbledore

2. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” — Albus Dumbledore

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

4. “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” — Albus Dumbledore

5. “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.” — Albus Dumbledore

6. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore

7. “I've always wanted to use that spell.” ― Minerva McGonagall

8. “‘I know some things,’ he said. ‘I can, you know, do math and stuff.’” — Harry Potter

9. “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

10. “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” — Albus Dumbledore

11. “Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.” — Voldemort

12. “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

13. “Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.” — Albus Dumbledore

14. “Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.” — Luna Lovegood

15. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” — Albus Dumbledore

16. “You need your friends, Harry.” — Albus Dumbledore

17. “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” — Albus Dumbledore

18. “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.” — Severus Snape

19. “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” — Albus Dumbledore

20. “Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.” — Gilderoy Lockhart

21. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” — Albus Dumbledore

22. “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — Albus Dumbledore

23. “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.” — Fred Weasley

24. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” — Albus Dumbledore

25. “Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” — Ron Weasley

26. “I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.” — Lines written in detention by Seamus Finnigan

27. “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.” — Draco Malfoy

28. “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.” — Hermione Granger

29. “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

30. “The wand chooses the wizard.” — Garrick Ollivander

31. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — Albus Dumbledore

32. “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” — Harry Potter

33. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” — Albus Dumbledore

34. “Funny way to get to a wizards’ school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?” — Uncle Vernon