Joanne Rowling, an unknown Scottish author, published her first novel on June 26, 1997.
Only 500 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone were printed, but it was the start of a global sensation that would captivate children and adults for decades.
What began as a product of an author’s imagination has grown into a series of novels, eight box office hits, and a slew of major attractions (you can go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in America, Japan, Europe and beyond). It has a cult following of devoted “muggles” (non-magic people) both online and in person.
J.K. Rowling is one of the richest and most successful authors of all time, with her novels and films grossing over $7.7 billion each.
Rowling has built a world that is lovely and exciting because it connects so well with our own, from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade, Platform 9 and 3/4, and The Burrow.
Whether it’s the excitement of shopping for school supplies in Diagon Alley, boarding the Hogwarts Express, or taking a potions lesson, Rowling immerses us in the Harry Potter universe and makes us feel at home.
The hardships and lessons that Harry Potter and his friends experience push us to think about the major questions about life, love, friendship, loyalty, and fate.
So, whether you’re a fan of Harry Potter because of the books, the movies, or a combination of the two, we’ve compiled a list of the most amazing Harry Potter quotations from each.
Harry Potter Quotes
It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – Albus Dumbledore
Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.___Hermione Granger
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.___Albus Dumbledore
But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.___Albus Dumbledore
There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don’t expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!___Professor Severus Snape
If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. – Sirius Black
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.___Hermione Granger
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.___Sirius Black
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.___Luna Lovegood
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.– Albus Dumbledore
I solemnly swear I am up to no good.___Harry Potter
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.___Albus Dumbledore
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.___Albus Dumbledore
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.__Albus Dumbledore
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?___Albus Dumbledore
You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog. – Gilderoy Lockhart
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.___Harry Potter
I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. ‘Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.’___Rubeus Hagrid
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.___Ginny Weasley
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.___Albus Dumbledore
I mean, it’s sort of exciting, isn’t it, breaking the rules? – Hermione Granger
I think we’ve outgrown full-time education … Time to test our talents in the real world, d’you reckon?___Fred Weasley
Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.___Kingsley Shacklebolt
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own.___Albus Dumbledore
‘He must have known I’d run out on you.’ ‘No,’ Harry corrected him. ‘He must’ve always known you’d always want to come back.’___Ron Weasley
And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.___Albus Dumbledore
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – Albus Dumbledore
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.___Albus Dumbledore
We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?___Neville Longbottom
I am not worried, Harry…I am with you.___Albus Dumbledore
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.___Albus Dumbledore
When in doubt, go to the library. – Ron Weasley
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.___Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?___Albus Dumbledore
Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that.___Gilderoy Lockhart
Parents shouldn’t leave their kids unless —unless they’ve got to.___Harry Potter
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.__Lord Voldemort
We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that. – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help.___Albus Dumbledore
Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!___Professor McGonagall
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.___Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
That’s what they should teach us here. How girls’ brains work… It would be more useful than divination, anyway…___Ron Weasley
What’s comin’ will come, and we’ll meet it when it does.___Rubeus Hagrid
We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. – Albus Dumbledore
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.___Nearly Headless Nick
From now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell, ‘Die, Ron, die,’ I’m chucking them in the bin where they belong.__Ron Weasley
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!___Albus Dumbledore
Don’t let the muggles get you down.___Ron Weasley
There were near misses, many of them. We laughed about them afterwards. We were young, thoughtless — carried away with our own cleverness.___Remus Lupin
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.– Lord Voldemort
We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.___Minerva McGonagall
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.___Albus Dumbledore
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.___Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.___Albus Dumbledore
But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can’t go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.____Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years. – Harry Potter
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.___Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost… But still, I was alive.___Lord Voldemort
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!___Hermione Granger
How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?___Ron Weasley
The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.___Sirius Black