J. K. Rowling
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.Collection: Sleep
Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.Collection: Eye
Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?Collection: Daddy
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?Collection: Tyrants
Look . . . at . . . me. . . .Collection: Looks
Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.Collection: Lucky
They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.Collection: Summer
Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.Collection: Clever
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!Collection: Two
Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?Collection: Want
George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.Collection: Thinking
Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.Collection: Thinking
Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.Collection: Moon
Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?Collection: Wow
I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.Collection: Jobs
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.Collection: Flames
The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.Collection: Secret
There's the silver lining I've been looking for.Collection: Silver
I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.Collection: Writing
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Hands
You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.Collection: Writing
From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.Collection: May
Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittlesCollection: Skittles
It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.Collection: Hope
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.Collection: Reading
This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.Collection: Dark
Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!Collection: School
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.Collection: Children
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.Collection: Stories
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!Collection: Muggles
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.Collection: Inspirational
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.Collection: Song
It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.Collection: Romance
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.Collection: Fall
I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.Collection: Ideas
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. 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. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.Collection: Jobs
What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.Collection: Life
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding worldCollection: Sports
I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.Collection: Hope
Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.Collection: Ems
Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’ at Defense Against the Dark Arts.” He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. “You’re actually disappointed, aren’t you?Collection: Art
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.Collection: Fear
Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.Collection: Real
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.Collection: Art
You are nearly there," said James. "Very close. We are...so proud of you.Collection: Proud
You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.Collection: Stupid
Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?Collection: Luck
Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.Collection: Today