It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.