J. K. Rowling
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.Collection: Lakes
That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.Collection: Lying
And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?Collection: Mum
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.Collection: Garden
Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.Collection: Deathly Hallows
There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?Collection: Lucky
The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.Collection: Moon
Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise.Collection: Real
Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!Collection: House
Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!Collection: People
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.Collection: Noses
And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.Collection: Death Eaters
Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?Collection: Thinking
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.Collection: Liars
Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.Collection: Giving
You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.Collection: Style
Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60.Collection: Hands
Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!Collection: Heart
All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.Collection: Stupid
I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.Collection: Mirrors
Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.Collection: Dark
Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.Collection: Aunt
Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.Collection: Ears
How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saintlike," he murmured. "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?" "Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?Collection: Brother
Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived.Collection: Doors
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.Collection: Love
Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.Collection: Wow
Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!Collection: Funny
I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.Collection: Muggles
A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.Collection: Mean
"Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.Collection: Reflection
So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.Collection: Mother
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!Collection: Mind
Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.Collection: Friday
I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.Collection: Brother
There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.Collection: Sleep
Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?' 'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack.Collection: Voice
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.Collection: Greatness
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!Collection: Dog
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")Collection: Wizards
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat!Collection: Toilet Seat
I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?Collection: Dad
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.Collection: Book
They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.Collection: Eye
Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet.Collection: Running
Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.Collection: Arms
Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.Collection: Wizards
I love you, Hermione,” said Ron.Collection: Love You
Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.Collection: Play