Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”

— J.K. Rowling

202. “Severus Snape wasn’t yours,” said Harry. “Snape was Dumbledore’s, Dumbledore’s from the moment you started hunting down my mother. And you never realized it, because of the thing you can’t understand. You never saw Snape cast a Patronus, did you, Riddle?”

— J.K. Rowling

203. “The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?? Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.”

— J.K. Rowling

204. “Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.”

— J.K. Rowling

205. “Longbottom, if brains were gold, you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.”

— J.K. Rowling

206. “I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...”

— J.K. Rowling

207. “Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

— J.K. Rowling

208. “Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.”

— J.K. Rowling

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209. “She’s as nutty as squirrel poo.”

— J.K. Rowling

210. “The magic continues, destiny awaits.”

— J.K. Rowling

211. “Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts.”

— J.K. Rowling

212. “Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.”

— J.K. Rowling

213. “You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don’t let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.”

— J.K. Rowling

214. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

215. “And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

— J.K. Rowling

216. “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.”

— J.K. Rowling

217. “He stood up. His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill a lifetime’s beats before the end. He did not look back as he closed the office door.”

— J.K. Rowling

218. “I will not calm down!”

— J.K. Rowling

219. “Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow, we’re identical!” “I dunno though, I think I’m still better looking,” said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.”

— J.K. Rowling

220. “Swish and flick.”

— J.K. Rowling

221. “I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself.”

— J.K. Rowling

222. “As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older – Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof.”

— J.K. Rowling

223. “It was his own grief turned magically to song.”

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224. “Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!”

— J.K. Rowling

225. “The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid’s cabin looked like an iced cake.”

— J.K. Rowling

226. “According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”

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227. “And let it be noted that Slytherin House played its part! Let our contribution not be forgotten!”

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228. “I don’t mean to be rude – ” he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. “ – yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often,” Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely. “Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. Ah, and this must be Petunia.”

— J.K. Rowling

229. “Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who – well – something of that sort...”

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230. “By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.”

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231. “I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.”

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232. “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being – forgive me – rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”

— J.K. Rowling

233. “It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”

— J.K. Rowling

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234. “He’ll be famous – a legend – I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future – there will be books written about Harry – every child in our world will know his name!”

— J.K. Rowling

235. “Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.”

— J.K. Rowling

236. “Twitchy little ferret, aren’t you, Malfoy?”

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237. “I take my hat off to you – or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.”

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

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239. “We can only guess,” said Dumbledore. “We may never know.”

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240. “You’d better hurry up, they’ll be waiting for ‘the Chosen Captain’ – ‘The Boy Who Scored’ – whatever they call you these days.”

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241. “He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand,’ said Dumbledore curtly. ‘Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. He needs to know who has put him through the ordeal he has suffered tonight, and why.”

— J.K. Rowling

242. “Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!”

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243. “Dobby didn’t mean to kill anyone. Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure.”

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244. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love. By returning, you may ensure that fewer souls are maimed, fewer families are torn apart. If that seems to you a worthy goal, then we say good-bye for the present.”

— J.K. Rowling

245. “You don’t seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.”

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246. “Time is making fools of us again.”

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247. “Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!”

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248. “I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

— J.K. Rowling

249. “The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air...”

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250. “The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”

— J.K. Rowling