Favorite Quotes

Sorcerer's Stone

Chamber of Secrets

"We had to write about our hero at school, Mr. Mason; I wrote about you."
--Dudley Dursley, page 6

"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods."
--Ron Weasley, page 36

Harry learned quickly not to feel to sorry for the gnomes. He decided to just drop the first one just over the hedge, but the gnome, sensing weakness, sank his razor sharp teeth into Harry's finger and he had a hard job shaking it off until -
"Wow, Harry - that must have been fifty feet!"
--Ron Weasley, page 37

"But you're Muggles! We must have a drink! What's that you've got there? Oh, you're changing Muggle money. Molly, look!"
--Arthur Weasley, page 57

"'A Study of Hogwarts' Prefects and Their Later Careers,'" Ron read aloud off the back cover. "That sounds fascinating."
--Ron Weasley, page 58

"Hang on..." Harry murmured to Ron. "There's and empty chair at the staff table... Where's Sanpe?"
"Maybe he's ill!" said Ron hopefully.
"Maybe he's left," said Harry, "because he missed out on the Defense Against the Dark Arts job again!"
"Or he might have been sacked!" said Ron enthusiastically. "I mean, everyone hates him-"
"Or maybe, he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train."
--Harry, Ron, and Severus Snape, pages 77 - 78

"There you are! Where have you been? The most ridiculous rumors--someone said you'd been expelled for crashing a flying car--" "Well, we haven't been expelled," Harry assured her.
"You're not telling me you did fly here?" said Hermione, sounding almost as severe as Professor McGonagall.
"Skip the lecture," said Ron impatiently, "and tell us the new password."
"It's 'wattlebird,'" said Hermione impatiently, "but that's not the point--"
--Hermione Granger, page 84

"I'm the new Slytherin Seeker, Weasley. Everyone's just been admiring the brooms my father's bought our team."
--Draco Malfoy, page 112

"At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent."
--Hermione Granger, page 112

"No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood."
--Draco Malfoy, page 112

"Gotta bone ter pick with yeh [Harry]. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?"
--Rubeus Hagrid, page 116

"Fame's a fickle friend, Harry."
--Gilderoy Lockhart, page 120

"Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that."
--Gilderoy Lockhart, page 120

"Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry! Most people would think that's good as beheaded, but oh, no, it's not enough for Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore."
--Nearly Headless Nick, page 124

Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: "My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course an I succeeded in turning her into a yak! Thank you, Kwikspell!"
--Filch's Kwickspell Letter, page 127

"Really, Severus," said Professor McGonagall sharply. "I see no reason to stop the boy playing Quidditch. This cat wasn't hit over the head with a broomstick. There is no evidence at all that Potter has done anything wrong."
--Minerva McGonagall, page 144

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
--Ron Weasley, page 145

"Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough."
--Ron Weasley, page 164

"It matters because being able to talk to snakes was what Salazar Slytherin was famous for. That's why the symbol for Slytherin house is a serpent."
--Hermione Granger, page 196

Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way for the Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through..."
--Fred and George Weasley, page 210

"Arthur Weasley loves Muggles so much he should snap his wand in half and go and join them. You'd never know the Weasleys were pure-bloods, the way they behave."
--Draco Malfoy, page 222

"Azkaban- the wizard's prison, Goyle. Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backwards."
--Draco Malfoy, page 224

"Let's all throw books at Myrtle, because she can't feel it! Ten points if you can get it though her stomach! Fifty points if it goes through her head! Well, ha, ha, ha! What a lovely game, I don't think!"
--Moaning Myrtle, page 230

"Could've been anything," said Ron. "Maybe he [Tom Riddle] got thirty O.W.L.s or saved a teacher from the giant squid. Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor..."
--Ron Weasley, page 232

Hermione, however, clapped a hand to her forehead. "Harry -- I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!" And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
"What does she understand?" said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
"Loads more than I do." said Ron, shaking his head.
"But why's she got to go to the library?"
"Because that's what Hermione does," said Ron, shrugging. "When in doubt, go to the library."
--Harry, Ron, and Hermione, page 255

"You're alive," she said blankly to Harry.
"There's no need to sound so disappointed," he said grimly, wiping flecks of blood and slime off his glasses.
"Oh, well...I'd just been thinking...if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet," said Myrtle, blushing silver.
--Moaning Myrtle and Harry Potter, pages 325 - 326

"I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules," said Dumbledore.
Ron opened his mouth in horror.
"Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words."
--Albus Dumbledore, pages 330 - 331

Prisoner of Azkaban

"What are you taking Muggle Studies for?" Said Ron, rolling his eyes at Harry. "You're Muggle-born! Your mum and dad are Muggles! You already know all about Muggles!"
"But it'll be fascinating to study them from the Wizarding point of view," said Hermione earnestly.
"Are you planning to eat or sleep this year, Hermione?" asked Harry while Ron sniggered.
--Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, page 57

"You bought that monster?" said Ron, his mouth hanging open.
"He's gorgeous, isn't he?" said Hermione, glowing. The cat's ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definately a bit bowlegged and it's face looked grumpy and oddly squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall.
--Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, page 60

(Harry, just being greeted by Percy) "Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-"
"Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled.
"That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley.
"Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seized her hand too. "How really corking to see you-"
--Fred , George, and Molly Weasley, page 62

"What do we want to be prefects for?" said George, looking revolted at the very idea. "It'd take all the fun out of life."
--George Weasley, page 62

"How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding.
"The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him.
"Why?" said Percy curiously.
"It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-"
"-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred.
--Mr. Weasley, Fred, George, and Percy, page 63

"We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us."
--George Weasley, page 63

"We've got it [ Percy's Head Boy badge]. We've been improving it." The badge now read, 'Bighead Boy.'
--Fred Weasley, page 67

George looked up in time to see Malfoy pretending to faint with terror again.
"That little git," he said calmly. "He wasn't so cocky last night when the dementors were down our end of the train. Came running into our compartment, didn't he, Fred?"
"Nearly wet himself," said Fred, with a contemptuous glance at Malfoy.
--Fred and George Weasley, page 97

McGonagall: "Really, what has got into you all today? Not that it matters, but that's the first time my transformation's not got applause from a class."
Hermione: "Please, Professor, we've just had our first Divination class, and we were reading the tea leaves, and-"
McGonagall: "Ah, of course. There is no need to tell me any more, Ms. Granger. Tell me, which one of you will be dying this year?"
--Hermione Granger and Professor McGonagall, page 109

"Oh how silly we've been!" Malfoy sneered. "We should have stroked them! Why didn't we guess?"
"I-I thought they were funny," Hagrid said uncertainly to Hermione.
"Oh tremendously funny!" said Malfoy. "Really witty, giving us books that try and rip our hands off!"
--Draco Malfoy and Rubeus Hagrid, page 113

Percy had what were possibly the least helpful words of comfort.
"They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be," he said seriously. "All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything."
--Percy Weasley, page 151

"Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there.
"Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself."
--Harry Potter and Fred Weasley, page 180

"Well...when we were in our first year, Harry-young, carefree, and innocent-"
Harry snorted. He doubted whether Fred and George had ever been innocent.
--George Wealey, page 191

"Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She - er got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first."
--Oliver Wood, page 244

"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him.
"Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually.
"Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute-in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered.
"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you."
--Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, page 258

"Mr. Malfoy then saw an extraordinary apparition. Can you imagine what is might have been, Potter?"
"No," said Harry, now trying to sound innocently curious.
"It was your head, Potter. Floating in midair." There was a long silence.
"Maybe he'd better go to Madam Pomfrey," said Harry. "If he's seeing things like-"
"What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade."
--Harry Potter and Severus Snape, page 283

"My dad didn't strut, and neither do I."
--Harry Potter, page 284

As though an invisible hand were writing upon it, words appeared on the smooth surface of the map. "Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."
Snape froze. Harry stared, dumbstruck, at the message. But the map didn't stop there. More writing was appearing beneath the first.
"Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git."
It would have been funny if the situation hadn't been so serious. And there was more...
"Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor."
Harry closed his eyes in horror. When he'd opened them, the map had had its last word.
"Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball."
--The Marauder's Map, Moony, Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail, page 287

"There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them."
--Sirius Black, page 372

"Believe me. I never betrayed James and Lily. I would have died before I betrayed them."
--Sirius Black, page 372

"You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"
--Sirius Black, page 373

Ron was staring at Pettigrew with the utmost revulsion. "I let you sleep in my bed!" he said.
--Ron Weasley, page 373

"If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about."
--Sirius Black, page 373

"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"
--Harry Potter, page 379

"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..."
--Harry Potter, page 435

"Harry, you'd better beat him in the Quidditch final!" Hermione said shrilly. "You'd just better had, because I can't stand it if Slytherin wins!"
--Hermione Granger, page 294

Trelawney: "The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice."
Hermione: "Well honestly...'the fates have informed her'...who sets date of the exam? She does! What an amazing prediction!"
--Hermione Granger and Sybll Trelawny, page 296

Trelawney: "Would anyone like me to help interpret the shadowy realms within their orb?"
Ron: "I don't need help, it's obvious what this means: there's going to be loads of fog tonight."
--Ron Weasley and Sybll Trelawny, page 297

Goblet of Fire

"We've been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making things," said Ginny, "we thought they just liked the noise." --Ginny Weasley, page 55

"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred.
"That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"
"It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it." --Fred and Percy Weasley, page 64

"Enjoying it?" said Ron darkly. "I don't reckon he'd [Percy] come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me...They'll be announcing their engagement any day now." --Ron Weasley, page 57

One of them was a very old wizard who was wearing a long flowery nightgown. The other was clearly a Ministry wizard; he was holding out a pair of pinstriped trousers and almost crying with exasperation.
"Just put them on, Archie, there's a good chap. You can't walk around like that, the Muggle at the gate's already getting suspicious-"
"I bought this in a Muggle shop," said the old wizard stubbornly. "Muggles wear them."
"Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these," said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.
"I'm not putting them on," said old Archie in indignation. "I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks." --Wizard and Archie, page 83&84

"Mad-Eye Moody?" said George thoughtfully, spreading marmalade on his toast. "Isn't he that nutter-"
"Your father thinks very highly of Mad-Eye Moody," said Mrs. Weasley sternly.
"Yeah, well, Dad collects plugs, doesn't he?" said Fred quietly as Mrs. Weasley left the room.
"Birds of a feather..." --George and Molly Weasley, page 161

"Ah, think of the possibilities," said Ron dreamily. "It would've been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier nd make it look like an accident..." --Ron Weasley, page 167

[pointing to Ron's dress robes] "Weasley� what is that?" --Draco Malfoy, page 168

"Look at this!" said Malfoy in ecstasy, holding up Ron's robes and showing Crabbe and Goyle."Weasley, you weren't thinking about wearing these, were you? I mean � they were very fashionable in about 1890�" --Draco Malfoy, page 168

"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive," said Malfoy sarcastically. "Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting and bite all at once?" --Draco Malfoy, page 197

"I was saying, my dear, that you were clearly born under the baleful influence of Saturn," said Professor Trelawney, a faint note of resentment in her voice at the fact that he had obviously not been hanging on her words.
"Born under � what, sorry?" said Harry.
"Saturn, dear, the planet Saturn!" said Professor Trelawney, sounding definitely irritated that he wasn't riveted by this news. "I was saying that Saturn was surely in a position of power in the heavens at the moment of your birth� your dark hair� your mean stature� tragic losses so young in life� I think I am right in saying, my dear, that you were born in mid-winter?"
"No," said Harry, "I was born in July." --Professor Trelawny and Harry Potter, page 200&201

"Oh Professor, look! I think I've got an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?"
"It is Uranus, my dear."
"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" --Lavender Brown, Professor Trewlawney, and Ron Weasley, page 201

"I want to fix that in my memory forever," said Ron, his closed and an uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret..." --Ron Weasley, page 207

"Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me." --Professor Moody, page 216

"Take this thing for a walk?" he repeated in disgust, staring into one of the boxes. "And where exactly are we supposed to fix the leash? Around the sting, the blasting end or the sucker?" --Draco Malfoy, page 294

"Don't be a prat, Neville, that's illegal," said George. "They wouldn't use the Cruciatus Curse on the champions. I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry." --George Weasley, page 366

Just then, Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.
"Oh � sorry, Neville!" Fred shouted, over all the laughter. "I forgot � it was the custard creams we hexed �" --Fred Weasley, page 367

"Who're you going with then?" asked Ron.
"Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment.
"What?" said Ron, taken aback. "You've already asked her?"
"Good point," said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, "Oi! Angelina!" Angelina, who had been chatting to Alicia Spinnet near the fire, looked over at him.
"What?" she called back.
"Want to come to the ball with me?" Angelina gave Fred an appraising sort of look.
"All right, then," she said, and turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting, with a bit of a grin on her face.
"There you go," said Fred to Harry and Ron, "piece of cake." --Ron Weasley, Fred Weasley, and Angelina Johnson page 394

"Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!" --Hermione Granger, page 400

"You're joking, Weasley?" said Malfoy, behind them. "You're not telling me someone's asked that to the ball? Not the long-molared Mudblood!" --Draco Malfoy, page 404

"Twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy?" --Hermione Granger, page 404

Hermione was now teaching Krum to say her name properly; he kept calling her "Hermy-own."
"Her-my-oh-nee," she said slowly and clearly.
"Herm-own-ninny."
"Close enough," she said. --Hermione Granger, page 419

"'Course Dumbledore trusts you," growled Moody. "He's a trusting man, isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me -- I say there are spots that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d' you know what I mean?" --Professor Moody, page 472

"I told you!" Ron hissed at Hermione as she stared down the article. "I told you not to annoy Rita Skeeter! She's made you out to be some sort of - scarlet woman!" Hermione stopped looking astonished and snorted with laughter.
"Scarlet woman?" she repeated, shaking with surprised giggles as she looked around at Ron.
"It's what my mum calls them," Ron muttered, his ears going red. --Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, page 513

"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, page 525

"Poor old Snuffles," said Ron, breathing deeply. "He must really like you, Harry.... Imagine having to live off rats." " --Ron Weasley, page 534

"Aren't you ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"
"What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you." --Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, page 548

"You [Cornelius Fudge] are blinded," said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, "by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be!" --Albus Dumbledore, page 708

"Great man, Dumbledore. 'S long as we've got him, I'm not too worried." --Rubeus Hagrid, page 719

"No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does." --Rubeus Hagrid, page 719

Order of the Phoenix

�Listening to the news,� said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
�Listening to the news! Again?�
�Well, it changes every day, you see,� said Harry. --The Dursleys and Harry, page 6

�We�re not stupid, you know,� said Uncle Vernon.
�Well, that�s news to me,� said Harry, his temper rising. --Vernon Dursley and Harry, page 6

�It was quite galling to be told not to be rash by a man who had served twelve years in the wizard prison, Azkaban, escaped, attempted to commit the murder he had been convicted for in the first place, then gone on the run with a stolen hippogriff�� --Harry�s thoughts, page 9

�Oh,� he grunted. �It�s you.�
�How long have you been �Big D� then?� said Harry.
�Shut it,� snarled Dudley, turning away again.
�Cool name,� said Harry, grinning and falling into step beside his cousin. �But you�ll always be Ickle Diddykins to me.�
�I said, SHUT IT!� said Dudley, whose ham-like hands had curled into fists.
�Don�t the boys know that�s what your mum calls you?�
�Shut your face.�
�You don�t tell her to shut her face. What about �popkin� and �Dinky Diddydums,� can I use them then?� --Harry and Dudley, page 13

�S�up, Figgy?� he said, staring from Mrs. Figg to Harry and Dudley. �What �appened to staying undercover?�
�I�ll give you undercover!� cried Mrs. Figg. --Mundungus Fletcher and Mrs. Figg, page 23

�Ah well�wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let�s go.� -Tonks, page 53

�Hello, Harry,� said George beaming at him. �We thought we heard your dulcet tones.�
�You don�t want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,� said Fred also beaming. �There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn�t hear you.� --Fred and George, page 68

�You�re letting people know he�s back?� They all smiled humorlessly.
�Well, as everyone thinks I�m a mass murderer and the Ministry�s put a ten-thousand Galleon price on my head, I can hardly stroll up the street and start handling out leaflets, can I?� said Sirius restlessly.
�And I�m not a very popular dinner guest with most of the community,� said Lupin. �It�s an occupational hazard of being a werewolf.� --Harry, Sirius, and Lupin, page 94

�Kreacher is cleaning,� the elf repeated. �Kreacher lives to serve the noble house of Black��
��and it�s getting blacker every day, it�s filthy,� said Sirius.
�Master always liked his little joke,� said Kreacher, bowing again, and continuing in an undertone, �Master was a nasty ungrateful swine who broke his mother�s heart�� --Kreacher and Sirius, page 109

�They found an unpleasant-looking silver instrument, something like a many-legged pair of tweezers, which scuttled up Harry�s arm like a spider when he picked it up, and attempted to puncture his skin; Sirius seized it and smashed with a heavy book entitled Nature�s Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy.� --Grimmauld Place, page 116

�Simply Fabulous,� he whispered, indicating the automatic ticket machines. �Wonderfully ingenious.�
�They�re out of order,� said Harry, pointing at the sign.
�Yes, but even so�� said Mr. Weasley, beaming fondly at them. --Mr. Weasley and Harry, page 124

�Those are enchanted windows; Magical Maintenance decide what weather we�re getting every day. We had two months of hurricanes last time they were angling for a pay raise.� --Mr. Weasley, page 131

�Well, I�d better get going, there�s a vomiting toilet in Bethnal Green waiting for me. Molly, I�ll be late, I�m covering for Tonks, but Kingsley might be dropping in for dinner��
�He got off, he got off, he got off��
�That�s enough�Fred�George�Ginny!� said Mrs. Weasley, as Mr. Weasley left the kitchen. --Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Fred, George, and Ginny, page 157

�Well, now that you understand what dreadful lives they lead, perhaps you�ll be a bit more active in S.P.E.W.!� said Hermione hopefully, as Mrs. Weasley left them to it again.
�You know, maybe it wouldn�t be a bad idea to show people exactly how horrible it is to clean all the time�we could do a sponsored scrub of Gryffindor common room, all proceeds to S.P.E.W., it would raise awareness as well as funds��
�I�ll sponsor you to shut up about spew,� Ron muttered irritably, but only so Harry could hear him. --Hermione and Ron, page 159

�I don�t believe it! I don�t believe it! Oh, Ron, how wonderful! A prefect! That�s everyone in the family!�
�What are Fred and I, next-door neighbors?� said George indignantly, as his mother pushed him aside and flung his arms around her youngest son. --Mrs. Weasley and George, page 163

She gave Ron yet another kiss on the cheek, sniffed loudly, and bustled from the room. Fred and George exchanged looks.
�You don�t mind if we don�t kiss you, do you, Ron?� said Fred in a falsely anxious voice.
�We could curtsy, if you like,� said George. --Fred and George, page 164

�Rather pink in the face, she closed the door and departed. Harry slumped back in his seat and groaned. He would have liked Cho to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing their heads off at a joke he had just told; he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap.� --Harry�s mind, page 187-188

�I�ll make Goyle do lines, it�ll kill him, he hates writing,� said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle�s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. �I�must�not�look�like�a�baboon�s�backside.� --Ron, page 189

�Manners, Potter, or I�ll have to give you a detention,� drawled Malfoy, whose sleek blond hair and pointed chin were just like his father�s. �You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.�
�Yeah,� said Harry, �but you, unlike me, are a git, so get out and leave us alone.� --Draco Malfoy and Harry, page 194

�Ron, we�re supposed to show the first years where to go!�
�Oh, yeah,� said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. �Hey�hey you lot! Midgets!�
�Ron!�
�Well, they are, they�re titchy��
�I know, but you can�t call them midgets�� --Hermione and Ron, page 215

�Half of our year had minor breakdowns coming up to O.W.L.s,� said George happily. �Tears and tantrums�Patricia Stimpson kept coming over faint��
�Kenneth Towler came out in boils, d�you remember?� said Fred reminiscently.
�That�s �cause you put Bulbadox Powder in his pajamas,� said George.
�Oh yeah,� said Fred, grinning. �I�d forgotten�Hard to keep track sometimes, isn�t it?� --George and Fred, page 226

�Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night,� said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. �What d�you reckon that means?�
�Probably that you�re going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something,� said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest. --Ron and Harry, page 238

�Would you like us to clean out your ears for you?� inquired George, pulling a long and lethal-looking metal instrument from inside one of the Zonko�s bags.
�Or any part of your body, really, we�re not fussy where we stick this,� said Fred. --George and Fred, page 343

�Does it work?� inquired Ron hopefully, as the hammering of rain on the roof intensified and wind howled around the building.
�Well, yeah,� said Fred, �your temperature�ll go right up��
��but you get these massive pus-filled boils too,� said George, �and we haven�t worked out how to get rid of them yet.�
�I can�t see any boils,� said Ron, staring at the twins.
�No, well, you wouldn�t,� said Fred darkly, �they�re not in a place we generally display to the public��
��but they make sitting on a broom a right pain in the�� --Ron, Fred, and George, page 379

�You know what these remind me of?�
�No, what�s that?�
�The Death Eaters� scars. Voldemort touches one of them, and all their scars burn, and they know they�ve got to join him.�
�Well�yes,� said Hermione quietly. �That is where I got the idea�but you�ll notice I decided to engrave the date on bits of metal rather than our members� skin�� --Harry and Hermione, page 399

�You�d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up,� said Ron, grinning.
�Ron,� said Hermione in a dignified voice, dipping the point of her quill into her ink pot, �you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.� --Ron and Hermione, page 458-459

A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, �One person can�t feel all that at once, they�d explode.�
�Just because you�ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn�t mean we all have,� said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. --Ron and Hermione, page 459

�Doctors?� said Ron, looking startled. �Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? Nah, they�re Healers.� --Ron, page 484

�Then you will find yourself easy prey for the Dark Lord!� said Snape savagely. �Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily � weak people, in other words � they stand no chance against his powers! He will penetrate your mind with absurd ease, Potter!� --Severus Snape, page 536

�I�m guessing your father runs some stupid little village newsletter?� she said. ��Twenty-five Ways to Mingle with Muggles� and the dates of the next Bring-and-Fly Sale?�
�No,� said Luna, dipping her onion back into her gillywater, �he's the editor of The Quibbler.� --Hermione and Luna Lovegood, page 568

�Well, usually when a person shakes their head,� said McGonagall coldly, �they mean �no.� So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans�� --Professor McGonagall, page 616

�Thank you so much, Professor!� said Professor Flitwick in his squeaky little voice. �I could have gotten rid of the sparklers myself, of course, but I wasn�t sure whether I had the authority�� --Professor Flitwick, page 634

�Now you mention it,� said Hermione happily, �d�you know�I think I�m feeling a bit�rebellious.� --Hermione, page 634

�Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you�ve just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can�I�m surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK.� --Young Lily Evans, page 648

�Potter,� she said in ringing tones, �I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! If I have to coach you nightly, I will make sure you achieve the required results!� --Professor McGonagall, page 665

�Longbottom?� repeated Bellatrix, and a truly evil smile lit her gaunt face. �Why, I have had the pleasure of meeting your parents, boy��
�I DOE YOU HAB!� roared Neville, and he fought so hard against his captor�s encircling gap that the Death Eater shouted, �Someone Stun him!� --Bellatrix Lestrange and Neville Longbottom, page 800

�Come on, you can do better than that!� he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.
The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest.
The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock. --Sirius Black, page 805

�You see, Dumbledore?� said Phineas Nigellus slyly. �Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own�� --Phineas Nigellus, page 823

�Like the fact that the person Sirius cared most about in the world was you,� said Dumbledore quietly. �Like the fact that you were coming to regard Sirius as a mixture of father and brother. Voldemort knew already, of course, that Sirius was in the Order, that you knew where he was�but Kreacher�s information made him realize that the one person whom you would go to any lengths to rescue was Sirius Black.� --Dumbledore, page 831

�The point is, if we find out you�ve been horrible to Harry��
��and make no mistake, we�ll hear about it,� added Lupin pleasantly.
�Yes,� said Mr. Weasley, �even if you won�t let Harry use the fellytone��
�Telephone,� whispered Hermione.
�Yeah, if we get any hint that Potter�s been mistreated in any way, you�ll have us to answer to,� said Moody. --Tonks, Mr. Weasley, Hermione, and Mad-Eye Moody, page 869

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