I don’t mean to be rude—” he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.”Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often,” Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.

Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know,” Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.”Yeah, I’ve seen those things they think are gnomes,” said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, “like...

Protego!

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

Demi persahabatan! Demi kebaikan hati! Demi sepuluh Galleon per helai rambut-!

These people will never understand him! He’ll be famous — a legend — I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future — there will be books written about...

Albus Severus,” kata Harry pelan, sehingga tak ada orang lain kecuali Ginny yang bisa mendengarnya, dan Ginny cukup bijaksana untuk berpura-pura melambai kepada Rose, yang sekarang sudah di atas kereta, “kau dinamakan seperti dua kepala...

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…

So that’s little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you’ve inherited your mother’s brains.

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...

Even if I could, I wouldn’t. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

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?

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind...

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!

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

Fer medicinal purposes?”She could have summoned it by magic, but as she hurried back toward the crooked house, Harry knew that she wanted to hide her face.

Ma è commovente, Severus» osservò Silente, serio.«Ti sei affezionato al ragazzo, dopotutto?»«A lui?» Urlò Piton «Expecto Patronum!»Dalla punta della sua bacchetta affiorò la cerva d’argento: atterrò sul pavimento dell’ufficio, fece un balzo e si tuffò...

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.”[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with J.K. Rowling (Scholastic / Stacks webcast,...

Even You-Know-Who can’t split himself into seven.

He accused me of being Dumbledore’s man through and through.””How very rude of him.””I told him I was.”Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low,...

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...

Don’t let the muggles get you down.

Oh, very good,’ interrupted Snape, his lip curling. ‘Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. ‘Ghosts are transparent.

Oh well spotted,” she said acidly.

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of...

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....

¡Bienvenidos!-dijo-.¡Bienvenidos a un año nuevo en Hogwarts! Antes de comenzar nuestro banquete, quiero deciros unas pocas palabras. Y aquí están, ¡Papanatas! ¡Llorones! ¡Baratijas! ¡Pellizco!…¡Muchas gracias!

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

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...

Hello, Minister!” bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. “Did I mention I’m resigning?

Oh, of course,” said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. “I forgot we’ll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Does it hurt?” The childish question had escaped Harry’s lips before he could stop it. “Dying? Not at all,” said Sirius. “Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Harry – you’re a great wizard, you know.” “I’m not as good as you,” said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.”Me!” said Hermione. “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things –...

The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature...

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him....

It’s just hard,” Harry said finally, in a low voice, “to realize he won’t write me again

I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

—¡Oh, bravo! Oh, sí, oh, muy bien. Bien, bien, bien… Qué curioso… Realmente qué curioso…—Perdón —dijo Harry—. Pero, ,qué es tan curioso?—Recuerdo cada varita que he vendido, Harry Potter. Cada una de las varitas. Y...

He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transformation.

Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?” said Malfoy. “And he’s supposed to be our teacher!”Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first – SMACK!She had slapped Malfoy...

Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!

and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — ‘there’s no wood,’ honestly.

Alors, Hermione, tu admires toujours autant Lockhart, maintenant? dit Ron à travers le rideau. Si Harry avait eu envie d’être transformé en mollusque, il l’aurait demandé.Tout le monde peut commettre des erreurs, répondit Hermione. D’ailleurs,...