J. K. Rowling
Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?" "Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed... Dumbledore.Collection: Hagrid
Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!Collection: Thinking
Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.Collection: Strange
Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likesCollection: Magic
Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out!Collection: Eye
And anyway, life's too short.Collection: Too Short
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.Collection: Thinking
Help only comes to those who ask for it.Collection: Helping
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.Collection: Girl
Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were?Collection: Confused
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.Collection: Grief
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?Collection: Humor
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.Collection: Sunset
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.Collection: Forgiveness
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.Collection: Death
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.Collection: Family
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.Collection: Writing
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.Collection: Teenage
Killing rips the soul apart.Collection: Rip
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.Collection: Funny
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.Collection: Death
You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.Collection: Thinking
However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.Collection: School
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.Collection: Girl
Love is the strongest power there is.Collection: Love Is
I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .Collection: Years
One can never have enough socksCollection: Christmas
Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.Collection: People
It's best to know what the enemy are saying.Collection: Enemy
Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.Collection: Thinking
Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.Collection: Important
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.Collection: Rivers
You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.Collection: Sex
Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating from him and noticed that the Dursleys drew very slightly closer together. “You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you.Collection: Son
Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.Collection: Easter
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched.Collection: Soul
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.Collection: Positive
Some wounds run too deep for the healing.Collection: Running
Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.Collection: Past
Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.Collection: Believe
Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! 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!Collection: Worst Enemy
Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban.Collection: People
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.Collection: Years
Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.Collection: Greed
Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.Collection: Denied
Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron.Collection: White
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!Collection: Real
A good first impression can work wondersCollection: First Impression