J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Quotes

For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

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!

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

It's just hard, " Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

It unscrews the other way.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.”“Yeah, ” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

Give her hell from us, Peeves.

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

You should write a book, " Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?""Girls don't often ask questions like that, " said Hermione."Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.

You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

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

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-""She's foul enough to be one...""Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you, " said Dumbledore quietly.

Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

Yeah, ” said Harry. “No more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly .

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

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words...

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —”“That’s enough, Phineas, ” said Dumbledore.

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

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.

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

The point is, if we find out you’ve been horrible to Harry —”“— and make no mistake, we’ll hear about it.“even if you won’t let Harry use the fellytone

You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.